HONG KONG - US PROJECT

Hong Kong "US involvement in Hong Kong’s political atmosphere is a decades long project" Full article:  http://revolution-news.com/occupy-central-us-state-dept-funding-of-hong-kong-pro-democracy-movement/ Too much information for me to take in, but interesting information for those that have a greater attention span than I do.   Great for those that are interested in this region and, more generally, in the role of the US funding and influence on the political climate of sovereign overseas territories. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a U.S. non-profit soft power organization that was founded in 1983 to ‘promote’ democracy around the world. It is funded primarily through an annual allocation from the U.S. Congress, within the budget of USAID, the U.S. agency for development assistance, which is part of the U.S. State Department. Although administered as a private organization, its funding mostly comes from a governmental appropriation by Congress but was created by The Democracy Program as a bipartisan, private, non-profit corporation. [revolution-news.com] Looks like NED is worth watching.