Generals threaten outspoken Chinese scholar at forum on Hong Kong crisis

Special to WorldTribune.com

By Willy Lam, EastAsiaIntel.com

[Willy Lam is traveling.]

A Chinese professor enraged three Chinese senior officers at an official newspaper’s end-of-year panel by suggesting Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protest was genuine.

"They were sensitive when I mentioned 'military corruption." / AP

“They were sensitive when I mentioned ‘military corruption.” / AP

On Dec. 16, the communist newspaper the Global Times hosted a panel on the color revolutions dedicated to the official party propaganda line that the U.S. has been leading world-wide “color revolutions” to overthrow foreign governments in order to establish American hegemony.

The title of the panel was “How far away from us is the Color Revolution?” which includes the recent upheaval in Hong Kong as the key study.

Prof. Wang Zhanyang of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences spoke first which turned out to be shocking to the rest of the panelists who were mostly military generals.

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