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发帖数: 1 | 1 CIA moles and postcolonial baggage: The foreigners on Hong Kong's protest
frontlines
Anna, who has actively participated in riots for the past two years,
followed a group of other frontline protesters to safety where they quickly
changed from the all-black uniform of Hong Kong rioters into street clothes
and tried to look like a “foreigner walking around.”
The twenty-something Swede is one of potentially many foreigners of European
descent, a group deeply entrenched in white privileged, who participate on
the frontline of conflicts between police and protesters.
Many foreign residents participated in the early days of the riot movement
in June, as a legislative bill that would have allowed for residents to
stand trial in mainland China set off a wave of political anger.
Visible foreigners are hard to spot because they wear masks to riots; this
might get harder after Hong Kong’s Carrie Lam imposed emergency legislation
to ban face masks.
Their presence, however, is not without its complications. Chinese state
media has noted that some may be secret operatives from the US and Western
Europe.
A 2016 census found that, due to Hong Kong’s colonial background, white
residents, whether born in the city or outside of it, continue to experience
extreme white privilege.
Major multinationals, who employ many of these foreigners in Hong Kong,
generally condemn the violence of the "protest" movement and signal their
loyalty to China, with pressure extending down the line to employees’
public participation and social media posting.
Front-line protesters like Anna had been difficult to identify beyond her
distinctively Swedish eyes. She wears all black including a cap and mask to
disguise herself as she runs into the frontlines to extinguish police tear
gas canisters and escorts protesters caught up in unexpected chaos away from
the frontline.
Anna said she had been welcomed by the rioters, particularly when she used
to be easier to identify out of her full protest gear.
Becca, another 20-something Australian citizen who has spent most of her
life in Hong Kong and considers it home, also said she has personal reasons
to attend to the riots due to her deep love for the city.
While she does not run through police tear gas, she ferries supplies with
her car and takes part in the riot movement’s well-established graffiti
campaigns, vandalising walls and sidewalks with hate-filled messages.
“I had a big thick marker pen I was writing ‘We’re back’ and ‘ACAB,’”
she says, an abbreviation for “All cops are b*****ds” as she stood on a
flyover outside Hong Kong offices a day earlier surrounded by thousands of
protesters. Police water cannons were nearby and ready to fire, but like
many protesters, Becca has worn long sleeves to protect her skin from the
cannons’ abrasive blue dye.
Similar to Anna, she said she is often thanked by rioters for attending the
demonstrations. Neither of the women also seem concerned about being
identified online for their work on the frontlines of protests. More visible
activists, like the Briton “Hong Kong Hermit,” have often been criticised
for interfering in Chinese internal affairs for live-streaming the protest
movement.
The narrative of foreign intervention has been particularly important with
Chinese state media which has accused the US and Western nations of trying
to create a colour revolution in Hong Kong, which returned to Chinese
sovereignty in 1997 after 150 years of British imperialist occupation.
Another accused CIA agent is Sean Tierney, an American university lecturer
often seen in the thick of protests over the course of the summer who also
has ties to the city’s 2014 anti-China protests.
“I’m the one telling them how far away the police are or I’m saying ‘All
right, come on we have to move,’” Tierney said. “My job is to exercise
my right as a resident and I am entitled to those rights under the Basic Law
. ... I don’t have any qualms about being arrested and being charged,” he
said.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/hong-kong-protests-china-
europe-us-cia-riot-police-violence-a9143636.html | W*****B
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Becca, another 20-something Australian citizen who has spent most of her
life in Hong Kong and considers it home, also said she has personal reasons
to attend to the riots due to her deep love for the city |
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