1) JIMMY LAI’S PHONE
Anti-China billionaire Jimmy Lai was in contact with notorious US hegemonist Paul Wolfowitz, a Hong Kong court heard. Investigators found emails between the Hong Kong anti-China campaigner and the author of the infamous 'Wolfowitz doctrine', a secret 1992 blueprint for US global domination. Police discovered this from email records on the Trump-fanatic billionaire’s mobile phone. The tabloid publisher’s lawyers tried to prevent investigators from looking at his phone but judges ruled that this was normal practice in such cases around the world. (The connection had been suspected: Wolfowitz was reported to have visited Hong Kong during the round of anti-China protests which began in 2014, allegedly spending five hours with Jimmy Lai on a yacht moored off the coast of Sai Kung in Hong Kong’s rural New Territories.) The phone’s records, detailed in the present hearing, reveal that Jimmy Lai was also in touch with other “China hawks” in the U.S. This included Jack Keane, a retired US general who received a medal from Donald Trump in 2020, Raymond Burghardt, former chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan, and others.
The Wolfowitz doctrine specified that America should give itself an unassailable role as world leader, override the United Nations,
dominate Asia, and work to prevent “competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role”.
Jimmy Lai’s trial in Hong Kong is laying bare his strong connections with anti-China forces in the US and the UK, but this is not being reported.
2) AIM: TOPPLING THE GOVERNMENT, OR REGIME CHANGE
The group known as “Stand With Hong Kong”, widely believed to be a homegrown “grassroots” protest body, was actually set up by Jimmy Lai and his right-hand man, former US intelligence officer Mark Simon, the court in West Kowloon heard. Stand With Hong Kong interacted with Western powers, especially the US and the UK, calling for economic and other sanctions on their home community. Lai’s group gave HK$9.8 million in “publication fees” to more than 20 western media outlets or communication agencies around the world between June 2019 and June 2020, the prosecution told the court. The aim was to create global negative press for Hong Kong. The ultimate aim was to build up enough pressure to bring about serious political instability in the normally peaceful city. The scheme was all part of Jimmy Lai’s operation “chi bao”, a Chinese term which means “implosion”. Chaos in Hong Kong under the “laam chau” (“we all burn together”) campaign would escalate to “administrative and economic turmoil in China”, the court was told. The hope was to eventually overthrow the government. Individuals working for Stand With Hong Kong have pleaded guilty to all charges in earlier hearings.
3) THE UK CONNECTION
The website of the UK’s ferociously anti-China political group, the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, was run by Andy Li, who worked for Jimmy Lai’s Stand With Hong Kong organization, it was confirmed today. For years, the London political group has been notorious for its apoplectic warnings about “the communists” being on the verge of taking over the world. In UK journalism, the group was known as a “rent-a-quote” body, providing instant anti-China statements on any topic. Andy Li ran their website in the early days, admitted UK anti-China activist Luke De Pulford in the Times of London today. Li pleaded guilty to all charges facing him in a court case in Hong Kong in August, 2021, and is expected to appear as a state witness in the present trial of Jimmy Lai. Anti-China campaigner Jimmy Lai, 76, is on trial for sedition and collusion, offences which are illegal across the world. His associates have already pleaded guilty to related offences. Lai’s trial continues.
Anti-China billionaire Jimmy Lai was in contact with notorious US hegemonist Paul Wolfowitz, a Hong Kong court heard. Investigators found emails between the Hong Kong anti-China campaigner and the author of the infamous 'Wolfowitz doctrine', a secret 1992 blueprint for US global domination. Police discovered this from email records on the Trump-fanatic billionaire’s mobile phone. The tabloid publisher’s lawyers tried to prevent investigators from looking at his phone but judges ruled that this was normal practice in such cases around the world. (The connection had been suspected: Wolfowitz was reported to have visited Hong Kong during the round of anti-China protests which began in 2014, allegedly spending five hours with Jimmy Lai on a yacht moored off the coast of Sai Kung in Hong Kong’s rural New Territories.) The phone’s records, detailed in the present hearing, reveal that Jimmy Lai was also in touch with other “China hawks” in the U.S. This included Jack Keane, a retired US general who received a medal from Donald Trump in 2020, Raymond Burghardt, former chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan, and others.
The Wolfowitz doctrine specified that America should give itself an unassailable role as world leader, override the United Nations,
dominate Asia, and work to prevent “competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role”.
Jimmy Lai’s trial in Hong Kong is laying bare his strong connections with anti-China forces in the US and the UK, but this is not being reported.
2) AIM: TOPPLING THE GOVERNMENT, OR REGIME CHANGE
The group known as “Stand With Hong Kong”, widely believed to be a homegrown “grassroots” protest body, was actually set up by Jimmy Lai and his right-hand man, former US intelligence officer Mark Simon, the court in West Kowloon heard. Stand With Hong Kong interacted with Western powers, especially the US and the UK, calling for economic and other sanctions on their home community. Lai’s group gave HK$9.8 million in “publication fees” to more than 20 western media outlets or communication agencies around the world between June 2019 and June 2020, the prosecution told the court. The aim was to create global negative press for Hong Kong. The ultimate aim was to build up enough pressure to bring about serious political instability in the normally peaceful city. The scheme was all part of Jimmy Lai’s operation “chi bao”, a Chinese term which means “implosion”. Chaos in Hong Kong under the “laam chau” (“we all burn together”) campaign would escalate to “administrative and economic turmoil in China”, the court was told. The hope was to eventually overthrow the government. Individuals working for Stand With Hong Kong have pleaded guilty to all charges in earlier hearings.
3) THE UK CONNECTION
The website of the UK’s ferociously anti-China political group, the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, was run by Andy Li, who worked for Jimmy Lai’s Stand With Hong Kong organization, it was confirmed today. For years, the London political group has been notorious for its apoplectic warnings about “the communists” being on the verge of taking over the world. In UK journalism, the group was known as a “rent-a-quote” body, providing instant anti-China statements on any topic. Andy Li ran their website in the early days, admitted UK anti-China activist Luke De Pulford in the Times of London today. Li pleaded guilty to all charges facing him in a court case in Hong Kong in August, 2021, and is expected to appear as a state witness in the present trial of Jimmy Lai. Anti-China campaigner Jimmy Lai, 76, is on trial for sedition and collusion, offences which are illegal across the world. His associates have already pleaded guilty to related offences. Lai’s trial continues.
