Rallies have popped up across the U.S. and elsewhere in a show of solidarity with Hong Kong.
A supporter of the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests posting a note on a makeshift "Lennon Wall" at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia on Aug. 9, 2019.“Right now, China is still the second-largest economy in the world, and I think it is also positioning itself as a major international power,” Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, a history professor at Pace University in New York, said.
To push its narrative, Beijing uses its United Front efforts to suppress criticism of the Chinese Communist Party, spread positive views of China and “incentivize voters in foreign democracies to influence their domestic policies in ways favorable to China,” the report reads. That narrative percolates into Chinatowns across the U.S. and elsewhere, where local chapters of hometown associations, comprised of members from the same parts of China, play an important role in mobilizing their rank-and-file to advocate for causes important to Beijing, such as opposing independence for Taiwan or Hong Kong.
NBC News on Tuesday visited two associations in Manhattan’s Chinatown to ask about the protests in Hong Kong and whether members had attended counterdemonstrations in New York.
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