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"I think the way the mainland is seeing it is that the real face of the struggle has been revealed," said Michael DeGolyer, a professor of government and international studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. "And this is not a Hong Kong-mainland battle; this is a tycoon-tycoon battle."

"This is probably also why [Beijing] is being fairly noninterventionist; it was supposed to be tycoons running Hong Kong," DeGolyer added. "So clearly I think they're interpreting this as an internal struggle in which the pro-democracy movement is either an unwitting dupe, being manipulated, or actually an arm or branch or acting element being encouraged by one of the tycoon factions."
 

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Where as this thread is really Chinese centric I shall let it stand....WITH NO DISCUSSION!

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Piotr

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Thursday, October 30, 2014, 09:41
Tai refuses to reveal source of donations
By LUIS LIU in Hong Kong

Benny Tai Yiu-ting, one of the organizers of the illegal “Occupy Central” campaign declined, again on Wednesday, to reveal the source of the HK$1.45 million donations he made to three University of Hong Kong (HKU) organizations.

The money was passed to him from “Occupy” coorganizer Reverend Chu Yiuming, leaked emails revealed on Tuesday.

The emails suggested four checks — for HK$800,000, HK$300,000, HK$200,000 and HK$150,000 — were given to HKU’s Public Opinion Programme (HKUPOP), the law faculty and the School of the Humanities as anonymous donations.

The biggest sum was donated directly to the “Civil Referendum Project”. This was done in June, the documents showed.

An unclassified document on the project revealed the total donation was HK$853,180. This means Tai’s money accounted for over 90 percent of the whole fund.

The HK$300,000, which was given to the law faculty, was used to fund some seminars and lectures on “legal education”. And the organizers used the occasions

to promote the “Occupy” campaign, according to sources.

Tai denied the suspected political intent, saying the donations were only for “public poll research and other academic use”.

Tai refused to reveal the donor or donors’ name because the “Occupy” movement can’t provide this without the donor’s consent. And he insisted that the money was from “local” sources and the donation complied with HKU’s regulations.

The information about the checks Tai receivedwas found in five emails. These were sent by “Steven Yip”, who identified himself as “a scholar who loves the

university”.

The emails show Tai received the checks on May 10 last year with photocopies of the checks attached.

“If confirmed, it will be a huge humiliation for HKU,” Legislator Priscilla Leung Mei-fun said, “and it will damage the credibility of the HKUPOP.”

She also demanded a clear explanation from the “Occupy” organizers because the statistics “may have been manipulated”. This could have led to a “wrong judgment of the situation” by the people, added Leung.

Yeung Yiu-chung, president of the Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers, echoed these views. “There were criticisms about the HKUPOP misleading the societywith its unprofessional polls, this time it is clearer that those socalled public surveys were only political tools of the money payers,” he said.

“The HKU should launch a comprehensive investigation and sack the related people. This sort of wrongdoing has to be rooted out in educational institutions,” he added.
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No wonder why Benny Tai doesn't want to reveal who really is behind illegal "Occupy Central" campaign.
 

Piotr

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More about "grassroots" and "spontaneous" Occupy Central movement:
Kenny Coyle outlines how US institutions are supporting parts of the Hong Kong opposition in alliance with local millionaire Jimmy Lai
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Just some months ago, startling revelations appeared in the Hong Kong media about the largesse of Hong Kong millionaire Jimmy Lai, owner of Hong Kong’s main anti-Beijing newspaper Apple Daily and who has substantial interests in Taiwan.

Hackers had copied some 900 emails and documents from the computer systems of one of Lai’s senior executives.

As the daily Hong Kong Standard reported on July 22: “Leaked documents showed Lai has donated more than $40 million (Hong Kong dollars, £3.2m) to the pan-democratic camp and legislators since 2012, of which $9.5m was made to four political parties in April 2012.

“Lai also gave the Democratic Party $10m in two payments — $5m in October 2013 and $5m in June 2014. The Civic Party also got an additional of $6m during the period.

“Alliance for True Democracy convener Joseph Cheng Yue-shek and Occupy Central organiser Reverend Chu Yiu-ming received $300,000 in June 2013 and $400,000 in April 2013 and April 2014, respectively.

“Former chief secretary Anson Chan Fang On-sang got $3.5m — more than twice the $1.3m she received from Lai between 2007 and 2009.

“Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun received $6m and Democratic Party founder Martin Lee Chu-ming got $300,000.”

Perhaps more surprising were donations to League of Social Democrats lawmaker “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung $1 million and donations to the Hong Kong Labour Party’s Lee Cheuk-yan.

Long Hair is a charismatic semi-Trotskyist known for sporting a seemingly endless collection of Che Guevara T-shirts. Lee is the General Secretary of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU), the major partner of the Solidarity Center in the territory, which issued the rather hollow call for a general strike on October 1, the first day of a two-day holiday.

Millionaire Lai’s dodgy connections don’t end there.

The payments were made by Lai’s US financial aide Mark Simon, former head of the Hong Kong branch of US Republicans Abroad. Simon is the son of a career CIA agent and is himself a former US naval intelligence officer.

For the sum of $75,000 (US dollars), Lai also hired Paul Wolfowitz as a special adviser in 2013 on his business projects in Burma. Wolfowitz has served on the board of the NED and is the author of the Wolfowitz doctrine, whose core idea was how to prevent the rise of any rival power to the US in a post-Soviet world.

He was also the scandal-prone head of the World Bank and served in the US Defence Department in the administrations of George HW Bush and George W Bush.
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Jimmy Lai Chee-ying "donated" HK$200000 to the "Hong Kong Civic Education Foundation".

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Jimmy Lai Chee-ying "donated" HK$5 milion to the "Democratic Party".

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Jimmy Lai Chee-ying gave $75,000 to US neocon Paul Wolfowitz.

Very "grassroots" and "spontaneous" indeed :D
 
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“Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun received $6m and Democratic Party founder Martin Lee Chu-ming got $300,000.”

Why would a Christian high priest need this much money? Whatever happen to taking the vow of poverty? Something's fishy about this.:confused:
 
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