What I've been reading about this Jimmy Lai guy is he's a wannabe Roger Ailes and he wants the freedom to use his media companies to control politics therefore control Hong Kong. He can't do that with the communists in control. Also I read he's the one that paid for Sarah Palin's trip to Hong Kong to do a speech where she turned it to mean she had foreign policy experience. BTW, that was her first trip outside the US.
Before Hong Kong's massive "civil disobedience" campaign broke out on 9/29, there's a consecutive 12-day of bear market that broke historical record. Hong Kong's Hang Seng's volatility index rose 50.45 per cent last month, the biggest monthly increase since September 2011. Under this background, October's future short skyrocketed on 9/25, coinciding with the massive protest on 9/27 that happened 4 days ahead of planned schedule. Apparently, "speculators" with inside knowledge and heads up won big. However, such a movement on this massive scale cannot be spontaneous. So who's behind it and who's tipping the speculators?
Hong Kong media mogul, Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, is known to be a supporter and financial backer of this movement. Just months before the Occupy movement, a scandal broke out that links several prominent "pan-democrat" lawmakers with Jimmy Lai. They allegedly received several million of "donations" from Lai "off the record". Jimmy Lai himself has a strong U.S. background. Mark Simon, Lai's right hand man at Next Media, Lai's media company that runs Hong Kong's Apple Daily, has strong ties with the CIA.
=========Link with former World Bank President============
"My dad was CIA for 35 years"; "My internship with CIA, four years with naval intelligence…"; "[Next Media] work on human rights cases and have regular fights with many non-democratic regimes in Asia." Comments like these were leaked earlier in a correspondence and job-application letters from Mark Simon.
The leaked documents also seemed to suggest Simon helped Lai build relations with right-wing US politicians. In one case, Simon helped set up a meeting between former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin and a group of "pan-democrats" during her visit to Hong Kong in 2009.
In June, the local press unearthed another link between Lai and Paul Wolfowitz, the former No. 2 in the US Defence Department under President George W. Bush and former World Bank president. The two of them and Simon reportedly spent five hours on a yacht off Sai Kung, Hong Kong. A document indicates that Lai paid Paul Wolfowitz US$75,000. According to a July 22, 2013, remittance notice by the Shanghai Commercial and Savings Bank, Wolfowitz received the money from Lai as "compensation for services in regards to Myanmar".
===========Investment in Myanmar============
In his trip to Myanmar, Lai also met at least five cabinet members and the chairman of Myanmar's central bank last year, documents indicate. The documents show that real estate investments were on Lai's agenda during multiple trips to Myanmar last year. They show that Lai was in talks over two developments in the nation's commercial centre, Yangon.
His Hong Kong-registered company Best Combo was planning to build two towers in Yangon with local developer Shambhala Group, run by the established businessman Phone Win. Speaking by telephone, Phone Win confirmed the existence of these projects but told South China Morning Post that they were still at a planning stage. The documents show that Lai transferred US$213,000 to an NGO run by Phone Win and his wife for an entrepreneurship campaign in Myanmar.
=============Lai paid 3.5 million to Occupy Central organisers==========
According to reports, Lai has allegedly paid 3.5 million dollars to the Occupy Central organisers in addition to extensive advice and propaganda material. Lai dismissed the organisers in private as "idealist scholars" who "couldn't make the cut without help". The emails were leaked by the same person who sent documents detailing the Next Media chairman's political donations to various pan-democrats.
Emails dated July 8, 2013, suggest the Next Media group had helped to produce an animation showing how to resist police in case force was used to disperse people in a mass protest. In an email the following day, the Reverend Chu Yiu-ming, one of the Occupy Central co-organiser, said to Lai that it was too early to go into the "technical aspects" and talked about a campaign to "materialise the spirits of love and peace", which Lai said he found "totally confused".
==========Robert Mundell seen accompanying Lai in Hong Kong=======
Along with the report that suggests Lai's cozy relationship with Myanmar, it raises the question of whether Lai is actively working for the CIA to incite "color revolutions" in Asia. Current affairs commentator Johnny Lau Yui-siu said the information would reinforce the belief that Lai, with the support of the United States, was orchestrating anti-China and anti-establishment campaigns in Hong Kong. During the campaign, Lai was also photographed alongside Robert Mundell, father of the Euro, in his car in Hong Kong.
==============Wong Chi-fung groomed by the U.S.===========
Another major player in the mass protest is the eighteen year-old Joshua Wong Chi-fung, founder of the activist group Scholarism. Wong Chi-fung, despite his age, is being groomed and funded by the U.S. as the future leader in Hong Kong's political scene. Here's a chronology of Wong's emergence.
---In May 2011，Scholarism was founded.
---In July of the same year，American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong invited Wong and his parents to live in a luxury suite in Macau's Venetian Hotel.
---In August 2012, Stephen M. Young, Consul General of the Consulate General of the United States in Hong Kong and Civic Party chairperson Audrey Eu Yuet-mee started meeting with Wong's father, Roger Wong. They met four times in total, each lasting for up to 3 hours. In the same month, fifty "Scholarism" members launched the "Occupy Government HQ" operation.
---In November 2012, Tin Dalton, an official from U.S. Consulate General met with Wong to discuss matters regarding his scholarship to study in the U.S..
---In November 2012, National Endowment for Democracy sponsored Wong 100,000 U.S. dollar. The fund was delivered through an organization called "Justice & Peace Commission of the H.K. Catholic Diocese".
---In November 2012, the U.S. Consulate General invited Wong and members of "Scholarism" to a U.S. Marine combat lesson.
---In March 2014, Wong received 1.6 million HK dollar from an anonymous person.
---In May 2014, National Endowment for Democracy promised Wong in case he is arrested by the police, they will help arrange and fully sponsor their study in the U.S. or U.K.
---In July 2014, Wong failed to qualify for college in public exams. Hong Kong lawmakers and professors called for a qualification exemption for Wong.
---In August 2014, Wong traveled to Macau and resided in Sheraton Hotel, reportedly to meet with someone.
---In August 2014, "Scholarism" and Hong Kong Federation of Students discussed the Hong Kong Class Boycott Campaign
---In September 2014, both groups launched the Class Boycott Campaign that involved middle schoolers and undergraduates.
---In September 2014, Wong expressed gratitude to Wong Dan, the leader of the Chinese democracy movement and one of the student leaders in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Wong said Wong Dan has kept close contact with him, helping him not only academically, but also politically. Wong Dan taught him how to lead "Scholarism". All of Wong's speeches were proofread or drafted by Wong Dan himself. Wong said he regularly report to Wong Dan about his works in Hong Kong.
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