11/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Five things no one is revealing about the Hong Kong "Alliance" leader Lee Cheuk-yan, sentenced yesterday: Yes, he was US-backed.
Three people were sentenced to up to seven years three months in prison in Hong Kong yesterday, for conspiracy to overthrow the government by incitement to subversion, an act which is criminal everywhere.
The main spotlight is on a man named Lee Cheuk-yan, a “Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigner”.
I’m going to tell you five things about Lee Cheuk-yan that will probably not be revealed anywhere else except in this report.
1. BEIJING COLOR REVOLUTION
In 1989, a protest group which had been cultivated in Beijing by a team from the United States was quietly flooded with cash and practical help.
Records show that the NED provided money and management, and the CIA provided an office and printing equipment.
A person who tried to deliver cash donations from Hong Kong was a man named Lee Cheuk-yan.
Working in Hong Kong at the same time was Col Robert Helvey, a US military psychological operations specialist who was head of color revolutions at the time.
2. N.E.D. MONEY CHANNEL
A year later, in 1990, an American group called the Free Trade Union Institute made a donation of US$35 thousand to help start a political activism group in Hong Kong. It was called the Confederation of Trade Unions and was led by a man named Lee Cheuk-yan.
The sponsor, the Free Trade Union Institute, was a branch of the AFL-CIO trade union federation—a cluster of organizations notoriously used by the CIA for decades to move money.
That turned out to be a start of a wave of money transfers from the US to Hong Kong – literally millions of US dollars were channeled through these US organizations to Lee’s group over the following years, who worked hard to demonize China and promote pro-Washington politicians.
It was listed in U.S. N.E.D. documents NOT as a Hong Kong trade union confederation but as a “rallying point and resource center for democracy activists”.
3. MORE ILLICIT CASH
In 2013, a disgruntled investor in Jimmy Lai’s media group leaked a batch of emails to the press.
The emails contained details of large cash transfers from Mark Simon, a former US intelligence analyst, to multiple people in Hong Kong’s so-called “pro-democracy” groups, plus lots of cash for something described as the “special project”.
The Hong Kong public was shocked. The disgruntled investor then released another batch of emails which revealed that the special project was a group known for short as the Alliance, another China-hostile political group run by Lee Cheuk-yan.
4. HURTING HONG KONG
In the spring of 2019, a notorious US-based China demonizer named Minky Worden (she tried to spoil the Beijing winter Olympics with the debunked “Uyghur genocide” claims) suggested Hong Kong’s anti-China lobby should visit top people in the US.
On the 2nd of April, Mark Simon forwarded a letter to Jimmy lai containing ideas about what they could achieve during the visit.
It focused on ways the US could hurt Hong Kong.
- One was to hit Hong Kong’s leaders with individual sanctions to make their lives miserable;
- another was to issue a travel warning to stop American citizens visiting Hong Kong, and thus badly hurt our community, which is dependent on tourism;
- a third was for the US to exploit the protests to gain an advantage for itself during trade negotiations.
The letter was written by Lee Cheuk-yan.
5. OUT OF CONTROL
In a court case last year, it was revealed that the U.S. government had secretly asked Jimmy Lai to tone down the violence level of the 2019 protests.
On the 13th of November 2019, Jimmy Lai texted Mark Simon to tell him that he had arranged a private meeting at his house to discuss how to achieve tighter leadership over the protesters--and he invited key activists, including Lee Cheuk Yan.
It didn’t work. The protests became even more violent, with a group of protesters collecting bombs and guns for a terrorist attack on Wan Chai planned for the following month.
Police caught them just hours before the bombs went off.
I could go on, but you get the point.
The media paints Lee Cheuk-yan as a noble hero. But did he work for his city and his country, or against them? Look at the evidence and you decide.
Peace.
