Civil Disobedience in Hong Kong or US Color Revolution Attempt?

• Civil Disobedience in Hong Kong or US Color Revolution Attempt?
  by Stephen Lendman, https://www.globalresearch.ca/
  As the saying goes, if it walks, talks, and quacks like a duck, chances are it is one. What’s been going on for months in Hong Kong has all the earmarks of a US orchestrated color revolution, aimed at destabilizing China by targeting its soft Hong Kong underbelly.
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  In calling for reunification of China in the early 1980s, then-leader Deng Xiaoping said Hong Kong and Macau could retain their own economic, financial and governmental systems, Taiwan as well under a “one country, two systems” arrangement. The above would be something like what the US 10th Amendment stipulates, stating:
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  “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
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  Each of the 50 US states has its own electoral system, governing procedures, and laws that may differ from federal ones.
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  China’s soft underbelly in Western-oriented Hong Kong left it vulnerable to what’s going on. US dirty hands likely orchestrated and manipulated pro-Western 5th column elements behind months of anti-Beijing protests. Dubbed Occupy Central, China’s leadership is well aware of what’s going on and the high stakes. Beijing is faced with a dilemma. Cracking down forcefully to end disruptive Hong Kong protests could discourage foreign investments. Letting them continue endlessly can destabilize the nation.
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  US war on China by other means aims to marginalize, weaken, contain, and isolate the country — because of its sovereign independence, unwillingness to bend to US interests, and its growing political, economic, financial, and military development. China’s emergence as a world power threatens Washington’s aim to control other countries, their resources and populations worldwide. Its successful economic model, producing sustained growth, embarrasses the US-led unfair, exploitive Western “free market”  system.
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  The US eliminated the Japanese economic threat in the 1980s, a similar one from the Asian Tiger economies in the 1990s, and now it’s China’s turn to be taken down. Its leadership understands what’s going on and is countering it in its own way. China is a more formidable and resourceful US adversary than earlier ones. Its strategy includes taking a longterm approach toward achieving its objectives with plenty of economic and financial ability to counter US tactics.
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