‘The dark shadow of the Stars and Stripes’: Beijing blasts Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong as a pro-independence advocate backed by the USA
Video by Supreme People’s Procuratorate attacks ‘agents of Western forces’ and warns of ‘dark shadow of the Stars and Stripes’
A video released by China’s highest prosecution agency has branded Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy youngster, Joshua Wong Chi-fung, a pro-independence advocate backed by the US, which it said wanted to turn China into another Syria.
The video, posted on August 1 by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate on its official weibo account, starts with a series of apocalyptic images of refugees from the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Central Asia starving, dying or being treated cruelly. This is followed by shots of a harmonious China.
“The shadow of internal and external troubles has not dispersed from the Chinese sky,” the text reads. “Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Taiwan independence, as well as dissident leaders, lawyers who would fight until death and other agents of the Western forces are damaging China’s internal stability and harmony by hook or by crook. Behind all these incidents, we can often catch a glimpse of the dark shadow of the Stars and Stripes.”
Wong’s image appears twice – a photo of him on hunger strike ahead of the pro-democratic civil-disobedience Occupy movement in 2014, and in a newspaper clip from the pro-Beijing Wen Wei Po highlighting his “American background”.
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