My Take | Hong Kong at the sword’s point of US foreign policy
- The city has become the target of the vile business that is “American foreign policy” and, as usual, US politicians are only seeing what they want to see
“Serious people” in the United States like to use this grand phrase, “American foreign policy”, as if it’s a subject so complex and noble it’s worthy of comparison with quantum mechanics.
In reality, it’s often – though not always – an extremely dirty business conducted by people in suits, who pursue villainous and violent plots and subterfuge to further American interests – which may well not be those of average Americans, but only of the rich and ruling elites – at the expense of other countries and peoples. Every powerful country does this. What is truly exceptional about America, though, is that while they are subverting your government and undermining your society, they claim they are doing it for your own good.
I have studied “American foreign policy” for years; I never thought my people in Hong Kong would one day become the target of this vile business.
As part of their long-time playbook, US politicians are calling all our protesters/rioters democracy activists, decrying the most routine anti-riot police operations and laws as repression and dictatorship, and threatening to legislate laws to punish officials.
They are helping our people to achieve freedom and democracy, a rare and precious gift that only the noblest in backward societies can appreciate and so ally themselves with America against their own people for the higher good.