The imposition of sanctions on individuals back and forth between China and the United States, this time over Hong Kong, is good for no one, but it is hard not to appreciate whom the Chinese chose to sanction yesterday for “egregious behaviors on Hong Kong-related issues.” Included on the list are the core leaders of the global regime change “Project Democracy” apparatus which EIR first identified decades ago as a British imperial operation established within U.S. government structures under the impetus of Henry Kissinger. That is: Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy; Derek Mitchell, President of the National Democratic Institute; Daniel Twining, President of the International Republican Institute (NED’s two pillars are the NDI and IRI); Michael J. Abramowitz, President of Freedom House; and Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of George Soros’s Human Rights Watch. The other six sanctioned were Senators Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Tom Cotton and Pat Toomey, and Rep. Chris Smith, all familiar as hidebound anti-China fanatics.