ISLAMABAD – The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) “dirty hands” are “allover the violence” in Hong Kong, which has been gripped by protests,rocking the autonomous Chinese city, says a political analyst.
Stephen Lendman, an author and a radio host in Washington, made the remarksin an interview with Press TV when asked about Chinese Foreign MinisterWang Yi who Saturday lashed out at the United States over its one-sidedapproach to world politics and its adversarial attitude towards Beijing.
Wang said Washington has used its domestic law to “crudely interfere” inChina’s internal affairs, trying to damage “one country, two systems” –Beijing’s reference for the ruling mechanism it applies to Hong Kong — andcompromise the Chinese region’s stability and prosperity.[image: China: US ‘world’s biggest source of instability’]linkThe US has vocally backed anti-Beijing protests in Hong Kong. Earlier thisweek, the US House of Representatives passed two bills to back theprotesters and issued a “warning” to China about alleged human rightsissues.link
“China criticized the US for what I criticize this country aboutrepeatedly, the greatest source of violence and instability in the world.(A) statement by China’s Foreign Ministry made the criticism (that) relatesto what is going on in Hong Kong with CIA dirty hands all over theviolence,” Lendman said Saturday.
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“China has certainly a right to criticize this. A concern that China hasand a concern that I have is the US just may overstep one day and somethingcan happen that I don’t think either side wants, the idea of a war betweenthese two superpowers.”
Beijing has time and again named the United States and Britain, the formercolonial power in Hong Kong, as the main provocateurs of the protestersthrough statements of support.
