In championing Nathan Law, US media is whitewashing his record - South China Morning Post
Over the past weeks, American media outlets such as , , and have all run reports or opinion articles highlighting the “injustice” facing Nathan Law Kwun-chung. Unsurprisingly, they play down two facts: Law’s poor record and the tricks of the United States.
Law is a criminal suspect wanted by the Hong Kong police. Before fleeing Hong Kong, he co-founded the now-defunct separatist group Demosisto in 2016, which breached the Basic Law.
In 2019, he met then US secretary of state Mike Pompeo and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to ask for support for Hong Kong’s campaign against the government’s extradition law proposals, and is accused of attending an illegal assembly in Victoria Park in 2020.
After leaving Hong Kong, he has made remarks on many occasions that violated the national security law with regard to inciting secession and subversion of state power, and sought backing from Western sponsors.
The US government and media have been attempting to whitewash the fugitive. The main reason the US invited Law to the Democracy Summit was to use him as a puppet to find fault with Hong Kong. As for US media outlets, they publish reports about Law under the good name of “freedom fighter” and “democracy hero” whenever there is a key political event in Hong Kong.
Having cast the threat to US “democracy” as being from the outside, these outlets have ignored American political polarisation, systemic racism and the trust deficit in the government – real challenges to the US social system. “You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time”. These words attributed to Abraham Lincoln still ring true today. Nathan Law and the American media cannot deceive fair-minded people in real life, but for their fictional films, they do deserve two Oscar statuettes, for Best Actor and Best Director.
source: https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/3164501/championing-nathan-law-us-media-whitewashing-his-record
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