U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, and other proponents of geopolitical conflict with China, are loudly decrying the Feb. 28 arrest in Hong Kong of 47 “pro-democracy” activists, who are charged with conspiring to “commit subversion” under the terms of the National Security Law during primary elections in July of 2020, and “to overthrow or interfere in...the Hong Kong government’s legal execution of duties.” These so-called democracy activists were part of a foreign-financed attempt to unleash a color revolution in Hong Kong.
On Feb. 28, Blinken tweeted his condemnation of the arrests of the “pan democratic” candidates in last year’s elections, and called for their immediate release. “The U.S. stands with the people of Hong Kong,” he trumpeted. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan tweeted that the arrests are a sign of China’s “broken promises to the world about Hong Kong’s autonomy & democratic rights. We stand in solidarity with these brave activists.” In an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation later that day, asked what the U.S. can do to “punish” China, Blinken replied that, first of all, governments should speak up, along with other countries, to express “our abhorrence at what is—what’s happening to Uighurs in Xinjiang….or for that matter what’s happening to democracy in Hong Kong.” According to The Hill, he also reaffirmed former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s lunatic claim that what’s happening to the Uighurs in Xinjiang is “genocide.”
