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【Xia Ke Dao Press】

On August 9, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs website released a major report: "What the National Endowment for Democracy has done and its true face."

The National Endowment for Democracy, or NED, has long been under the guise of "promoting democracy" to subvert regimes in other countries, according to a report by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In recent years, the NED has changed its tactics and intensified its efforts. NED is behind the forces that endanger China's national security and sovereignty, such as "Hong Kong independence," "Taiwan independence," "Tibetan independence," and "Xinjiang independence."

(Source: China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs official website)

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NED disguises itself as a non-governmental organization and claims to provide support for democracy in other countries, but in reality it is the "white glove" of the U.S. government in its infiltration, subversion and sabotage activities around the world.

In 1981, after President Reagan came to power, he planned to promote the so-called "democracy strategy" overseas and proposed to establish a foundation funded by the government and operated in a private model to openly support the so-called "overseas democracy movement." In 1983, NED was established.

American scholar Bloom said that the NED is openly doing what the CIA has been doing in secret in the past in order to wash away the bad reputation associated with the CIA. Philip Agee, a former CIA official, once said: "It is not only the CIA that is behind the whole process through funding and other means, but they also have a hand, the NED."

NED is funded by the US government. According to data from the US government's "US Spending" website, the funding for NED in fiscal year 2023 reached $315 million; a report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace shows that almost all of NED's funding comes from US Congressional appropriations. NED project operations are guided by the US State Department and embassies abroad, and NED reports to the US government and is subject to audit supervision.

In recent years, the NED has repeatedly instigated color revolutions to overthrow regimes in other countries.

In September 2022, Iran experienced a "headscarf controversy". Alinejad, a reporter for the Persian Channel of Voice of America, repeatedly released unverified information and pictures to incite the public. Lebanon Square TV revealed that Alinejad received $628,000 in funding from various American institutions including the NED from 2015 to 2022. The NED used Alinejad to interfere in Iran's internal affairs during the "headscarf controversy". Iranian media called the NED "the public enemy of democracy" and a "Trojan horse" that disrupted order and incited riots in Iranian society.

The NED has also changed its tactics to infiltrate Arab countries. Since the "Arab Spring", the NED has made extensive use of social media to fund non-governmental organizations to publish multimedia content and conduct online training to incite color revolutions. The NED has also implemented a "regional democratic transition talent reserve" plan to fund non-governmental organizations to support so-called "democracy supporters", "human rights activists" and "dissidents" in exile, encourage local trade unions to "strengthen organizational capacity building", and support scholars and activists to plot so-called "constitutional reforms" in various countries.

During the 2004 Orange Revolution, the NED provided $65 million in funding to the Ukrainian opposition. From 2007 to 2015, the NED invested more than $30 million to support Ukrainian non-governmental organizations and encourage "civil activities." During the 2013-2014 Square Revolution, the NED funded the Mass Media Research Institute to spread inflammatory information. The NED also invested tens of millions of dollars to spread false information using social media such as Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and Instagram, intensifying ethnic conflicts in Ukraine and provoking ethnic confrontation in eastern Ukraine.

The vast majority of NED's funding comes from the US government and related appropriations from Congress. Source: CCTV News

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Colluding with various forces and interfering in the internal affairs of other countries is also the NED’s specialty.

One of the methods: cultivating pro-American forces in the target country.

The 2021 NED report stated that they supported pro-American media in Arab countries, cultivated "democratic activists", and funded groups to maintain "democracy and freedom"; in May 2021, the then-NED President Carl Gershman stated that although NED was banned from operating in Russia, it still funded a large number of organizations to carry out activities in Russia, supported Russian opposition figures in exile, and used important political agendas such as the Russian State Duma elections, presidential elections and local council elections to fight the Russian government.

NED has long been infiltrating Europe and trying to win over officials from EU institutions. They have cultivated the "transatlantic faction" within EU institutions and suppressed the "strategic autonomy faction"; they have funded so-called European "independent media" to create public opinion that is favorable to the United States.

The NED also targeted Mexico as its main infiltration target, supporting organizations such as the Mexican Anti-Corruption and Impunity Organization and the Mexican Competitiveness Institute. In 2021, the Mexican government sent a note to the US government, condemning the NED for funding anti-government organizations in Mexico, calling it "interventionism and incitement to a coup."

Since 2017, the NED has funded 54 anti-Cuban organizations. In 2018, the anti-Cuban government organization Cuban Democracy Bureau said it had received "democracy funds" from the United States and had paid $48,000 to employees, agents and contractors in Cuba.

The second method: distorting and smearing the democratic and human rights situation in other countries.

The Journal of Democracy, a magazine sponsored by the NED, often uses American democracy as a standard to criticize presidential elections, economic policies, human rights conditions, and democratic transitions in developing countries. In July 2023, the Journal of Democracy published five articles on Indian democracy, saying that the Modi government has massively disintegrated democratic institutions, norms, and practices since it came to power; in April 2024, the Journal of Democracy published an article saying that India's democratic governance has been regressing since Modi's second term.

The NED also lists members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) as "autocratic dictatorships" and continues to export its values ​​to relevant countries through academic, cultural, and media activities. In 2021, the NED established 11 projects in GCC countries, invested approximately US$1.8 million, supported so-called "democrats", attacked local human rights conditions, and incited social confrontation under the guise of promoting press freedom.

Method three: Manipulating and intervening in elections of other countries.

In April 2022 and December 2023, Serbia held presidential, national assembly and local council elections, with the NED intervening throughout the process and vigorously campaigning for the pro-US opposition before the elections. In May 2023, human rights organizations supported by the NED, together with pro-US opposition organizations, held large-scale demonstrations, demanding the resignation of the Serbian government.

In the Philippines, NED has long funded Rappler News. From 2017 to 2021, Rappler News received a total of US$786,000 in funding from NED. In the 2022 general election, Rappler News mobilized to lobby the Philippine Election Commission to authorize it to provide internal information such as election trend monitoring and candidate campaign expenses, which caused people from all walks of life in the Philippines to question the fairness and independence of the election. The authorization was eventually revoked under strong public pressure.

For a long time, the United States has instrumentalized and weaponized so-called universal values, incited division and confrontation, and interfered in the internal affairs of other countries, causing disastrous consequences. The NED is the "Trojan Horse" of the US government to cause chaos in other countries. Source: Global Times

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The NED is an expert in inciting division and confrontation and undermining the stability of other countries.

Kenneth Wallach, chairman of the NED board, once told the U.S. Congress that the NED is committed to "empowering opposing forces against America's enemies" and enhancing their ability to change the government.

They support the separatist forces of "Taiwan independence". In 2022, NED and the Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party authorities held the "World Democratic Movement" conference, inviting some European parliamentarians and think tank representatives to participate in the conference, mobilizing the so-called "democratic forces", opening up the "Eastern front of the democratic struggle", and exaggerating the false narrative of "Ukraine today, Taiwan tomorrow". In July 2023, NED Chairman Damon Wilson went to Taiwan to attend the "20th Anniversary International Conference of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy" and awarded Tsai Ing-wen the so-called "Democracy Service Medal".

They colluded with anti-China forces that disrupt Hong Kong. NED has long colluded with Hong Kong forces by transferring funds and publicly supporting them. In 2020, it set up multiple projects in its list of Hong Kong-related funding projects, totaling more than 310,000 US dollars, to provide support for Hong Kong rioters. In 2023, NED linked up with organizations such as "Hong Kong Watch" and "Amnesty International" as well as anti-China lawmakers in the United States, Britain, and Germany to nominate Hong Kong rioter Jimmy Lai for the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize.

They have long supported the so-called "World Uyghur Congress", an anti-China organization, with an annual funding of between 5 million and 6 million US dollars. In March 2024, the NED held an event and invited the head of the "World Uyghur Congress" to speak, smearing China's ethnic policies and the development achievements of ethnic regions.

NED provided funding to Ouz Khan, the leader of the "East Turkestan Education and Mutual Assistance Association", and instructed him to organize anti-China rallies and activities to sow discord between China and Turkey. NED also funded the "East Turkestan" leader Rushen Abbas to frequently visit Turkey and collude with "East Turkestan" forces to stir up trouble.

In March 2023, NED President Damon Wilson led a NED delegation to Dharamsala, India, to meet with the leaders of the "Tibetan independence" movement and to support the "Tibetan independence" movement. In November 2023, NED awarded the "Tibetan independence" activist Jigme Gyatso the "Personal Courage Democracy Award"; in April 2024, NED invited the so-called "Chief Kalon" of the "Tibetan Government in Exile", Penpa Tsering, to attend an event at the NED headquarters.

NED is good at fabricating false information and misleading and interfering with public opinion.

In an exclusive interview with the Asahi Shimbun, NED President Damon Wilson slandered China for using technology and artificial intelligence to monitor citizens. On November 30, 2023, NED Vice President Christopher Walker testified at a hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives' "Ad Hoc Committee on China" and fabricated and spread the lie that "the Chinese Communist Party monopolizes information."

NED supported Serbian non-governmental organizations and cooperated with CNN's Serbian branch to fabricate false news about China, slandering and hyping up environmental, labor and corruption issues in China's so-called projects in Serbia; it funded the International Republican Institute to launch the second phase of the "Supporting Europe's Opposition to the Chinese Communist Party's Subversive Strategies" project, fabricating and spreading the Chinese Communist Party's threat to so-called democratic values ​​and transatlantic solidarity.

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NED is good at using "academic activities" to engage in interference and infiltration.

For example, it funded the Iraqi Center for Public Policy and Governance, published the "Iraqi National Democratic Transition Index" report for six consecutive years, gave low scores to Iraq's democratic construction year after year, and listed Iraq as a "partially dictatorial transition country." All walks of life in Iraq believe that the index does not truly reflect Iraq's achievements in government administration, social governance, democracy and the rule of law, and deliberately gave a low score to create an excuse for the United States to continue to interfere in Iraq's internal affairs and delay its withdrawal from Iraq.

In March 2024, the NED's "core transferee" Center for International Private Enterprise and the Makati Business Club of the Philippines jointly released the first "Philippine Sustainable Development Status Report", imposing the carbon emission standards and obligations of Western industrialized countries on the Philippines, and pressuring the Philippine government to transform its economic structure. NED also invested hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund think tanks such as the European Values ​​Security Policy Center and the Global Security Center, held various seminars and think tank activities, and encouraged the EU to follow the US "small yard and high wall" policy.

NED has long funded non-governmental organizations in the Kosovo region of Serbia to instigate conflicts between the Serbian government and the Provisional Self-Government Institutions of Pristina. In December 2023, the NED-funded think tank "Sbunker" published a report stating that "Kosovo" is a "relatively successful case of supporting nation-building and promoting democracy" by the United States, whitewashing the real actions of the United States to invade and divide other countries.

Under the guise of democracy, freedom and human rights, the United States, with the help of the NED, has infiltrated, interfered and subverted other countries, seriously infringed on the sovereignty, security and development interests of other countries, seriously violated international law and basic norms of international relations, and seriously endangered world peace and stability. It is unpopular and despicable. The world is moving towards multi-polarization, and international relations need to be democratized. Every country has the right to explore a development path that suits its own reality and the needs of its people. No country can regard itself as a teacher of democracy and human rights, let alone violate the sovereignty of other countries, interfere in other countries' internal affairs, and provoke ideological confrontation under the guise of so-called "democracy and human rights."

Source/Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs website

Editor/Yun Ge

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