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The "these people are funded from abroad" rhetoric is employed too often by countries trying to control their population. Without hard evidence I wouldn't trust
by vvpan 6y ago
The "these people are funded from abroad" rhetoric is employed too often by countries trying to control their population. Without hard evidence I wouldn't trust such things. I Russia, for example it's the number one way to try to discredit anybody who disagrees with the government. Yet the government, which has essentially total control over all spheres of life, has not been able to procure any evidence.
- adventured 6y agoAnd occasionally you get the amusing conflicting scenario of the local government using the foreign interference rhetoric, while the national government rejects that for its own purposes (not wanting to look weak), as in Russia in Khabarovsk at the moment.
- fakeslimshady 6y agoYou mean like taliban funded by US against Russia. That's what I used to think be after looking at it, the US is constantly funding destabilization efforts like this. Yes including the recent China riots. What if it was true and we were the ones fed propaganda. The truth is out there
- vvpan 6y agoUS did fund the Taliban that's true. US has done plenty of meddling in external politics. I wouldn't compare Hong Kong citizens to the Taliban though. They are not an insurgency group. Hong Kong, as I understand, and I'm no expert, by any standard culturally and historically separate from China. Anybody aiding Hong Kong is effectively not aiding an insurgency group inside China but an independent state being overtaken by a neighboring and a culturally loosely-related country.
- yorwba 6y agoThe US funded the Taliban because they opposed the Afghan government, not because they wanted to help Afghanistan. Similarly, they're never going to help Hong Kong, but only specific groups who oppose the government. (The "culturally loosely-related country" supporting the Afghan government at the time was the Soviet Union.)
- billfruit 6y agoPompeo certainly was hinting the same in speaking of rioters in the US, and his office slyly even seems to suggest that was the reason behind closing the Houston consulate.
- chrisco255 6y agoThe Chinese consulate in Houston is quite literally a foreign entity. I'm not sure that applies. We also spent 3 years propping up a conspiracy theory that Trump was a Russian agent or in cahoots with the Russians. It's too bad we'll never get all that time and energy wasted on such things back.