Smears by association are unworthy of discussion. Wong served prison time for his '14 protests, and got international attention because of it. No big mystery there. And he probably met with anybody who requested it. He certainly met with lefty Dems here in the US. So what? He's looking for support for his cause, not doing endless detective work on every political faction of every country he visits to satisfy the local prejudices or conspiracy theorists.
how many smears before it sticks?
This photo shows a US diplomat meeting with Hong Kong protest leaders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaE4cmBP6mk
American Gov’t, NGOs Fuel and Fund Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Protests
So when US diplomats met with Lech Walesa, that meant that the Polish Solidarity movement was no longer legit?
Take off the tinfoil hat, dude. Of course diplomats met with protest leaders. They're protesting for freedom against a communist regime.
It can be both
Look at yellow vest, at one point you got shit in the glue like "yellow vest turns violent", of course antifa and shit
One can really blend into the other
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That said I see 2 things:
1) China doing jack shit,like "go ahead nobody cares, just stay on your island"
2) The US doing jack shit, like "it's far anyway"
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Sounds like the protests are a mix of legit political demands, destructionism (if it can't be oursq it's nobody's sort of stuff), resulting in some sort of general clusterfuck
And of course global and regional powers playing the waiting game, as in nobody gives a fuck about what the people on that rock think anyway, stakes are too high atm, it's tense
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