A SHOCKING BRIEF HISTORY OF THE N.E.D. in 20 tweet-sized paragraphs

'SHOCKING AND ILLEGAL'

1) There was an outcry against the shocking and illegal overseas activities of the CIA overseas in the second half of the 1970s. Investigatory commissions wagged disapproving fingers, and wholesale reform was promised.

2) But instead of halting the black ops, the US held a series of meetings in the early 1980s which concluded that they should continue them under a nicer-sounding name. Thus the National Endowment for Democracy was born on November 18, 1983, in Washington DC.

3) The US public and the wider world were told that the NED was designed to "support democratic institutions throughout the world through private, nongovernmental efforts". This was misleading: the organization was and is funded by the US government.

FIRST STOP, MANILA

4) An early NED target was the Philippines. When socialist groups were becoming popular and troublesome in the mid-1980s, NED used classic CIA techniques to steer funds to private organizations and media to artificially change political outcomes.

5) At the time, journalists were allowed to print that NED was a CIA scam. The famous Allen Weinstein quote ("A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA") actually came from a 1991 interview, after about eight years of NED political interference ops.

6) The NED got larger and busier. Intelligence historian William Blum reported: "NED successfully manipulated elections in Nicaragua in 1990 and Mongolia in 1996 and helped to overthrow democratically elected governments in Bulgaria in 1990 and Albania in 1991 and 1992."

7) The CIA-style illegality was often shocking. For example, the NED handed US$250,000 to an anti-Castro Miami group which in turn financed a Cuban terrorist named Luis Posada Carriles who was involved in groups which bombed hotels in Havana and blew up an aircraft.

THE LONG GAME IN CHINA

8) In 1994, the NED started setting up and/ or funding "pro-democracy" organizations in Hong Kong, designed to poison the minds of the local populace against mainland China, due to resume sovereignty over the city just three years later.

9) Also in 1994, the NED decided to make use of another old CIA front group, the American Institute for Free Labor Development. This was a nice-sounding unit that could be used to subvert genuine trade unions.

10) The NED started sending large sums of money regularly to a new group, the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions. But the city already had a Federation of Trade Unions. The media was told that the old trade union organization was "political" and must be labelled "pro-Beijing".

11) But the opposite was true. The old trade union group focused on workers' rights and collective bargaining, while the US allied one, according to NED paperwork, was financed to act as "a rallying point for the pro-democracy movement".

ENTER THE UYGHURS

12) NED worked worldwide. "In Haiti in the late 1990s, NED was busy working on behalf of right-wing groups who were united in their opposition to former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his progressive ideology," wrote William Blum.

13) From at least 2004, NED began a program of handing millions of dollars to Uyghur insurgents, despite them being classified as terrorists. These Uyghurs committed a series of violent terrorist attacks in China between 2009 and 2014 which randomly killed scores of innocent people.

14) When China acted against the terrorists to re-train them for integration with society, NED-financed "Uyghur rights groups" (actually based in Washington DC or elsewhere in the west) accused the Chinese of building "concentration camps" for "millions" of innocents.

15) The NED's political interference ops continued worldwide. From 2013, NED and USAID provided tens of millions of dollars to the opposition in Bolivia to try to install a US-friendly puppet leader.

HONG KONG OP LAUNCHED

16) In 2018, Hong Kong obeyed a G-7 recommendation to introduce an extradition amendment. US agents used this as their official "flashpoint" to launch a disinformation campaign to paint it as a Beijing initiative to snatch dissidents to be "disappeared" over the border.

17) The result was a violent insurgency in Hong Kong that lasted more than five months in 2019, with billions of dollars' worth of damage to government buildings, the public transport network, and universities.

NEWS BLACKOUT

18) The NED conducted a massive political interference op in Moldova in 2024, which was reported in the media as "Russian meddling". The exact same thing happened in Georgia and Romania—and were similarly mis-characterised.

19) Bizarrely, the western mainstream media now runs an almost complete news blackout on NED ops worldwide, and almost all funding histories on the NED website have been removed from public access.

20) The January 2025 shuttering of the USAID website has given people around the world hope that the US might stop overseas political interference ops. But some of us point out that that was exactly what they said in the late 1970s—where this story started.

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Hong Kong prevented an anti-China operative from a CIA-derived operation entering the city – but the mainstream media is pretending she was no more than an innocent grandmother visiting her grandchild.

The way the story has been twisted is actually pretty funny.

"MP refused entry to Hong Kong on visit to see newborn grandson", says the UK Sunday Times in a report at the start of this week—and which soon picked up by multiple media worldwide. Aww!

The woman, Wera Hobhouse, is quoted as saying: "I want to see my grandson, I want to cuddle him." But she was told to go home. She added: "I didn’t cry but I was very close to tears.”

ANTI-CHINA NARRATIVE
Then UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, friend of Netanyahu, put in his thoughts: "Unjustified restrictions on freedom of movement can only serve to further undermine Hong Kong’s international reputation.”

In other words, this is all a standard attempt by western journalists to feed a fake anti-Hong Kong narrative by hiding the most important stories.

Which I am going to tell you.

THE REAL STORY
The story starts many years ago. After being repeatedly caught doing illegal black ops, the CIA decided to spin off a portion of its overseas work under a nicer-sounding name – the National Endowment for Democracy, or the NED.

This group continued the CIA's global specialties: political interference worldwide, and endless demonization of US rivals, especially China.

By 2020, the US had a terrible reputation for meddling in the affairs of other countries, and people were becoming wise to what the NED was really about. What to do now? The US State Department decided to set up a unit that would feel non-American.

So the US chose to start a new front organisation with their most servile supporters, the UK and Japan. It would start in the UK and then expand to draw as many European nations as possible, and then other countries too.

So the NED teamed up with its frequent partner organization, the OSF, a political interference body funded by a US billionaire named George Soros.
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In June of 2020, they financed a new group called the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, or IPAC—notice that it doesn't sound American – most people think it is British.

A few months later, the Americans launched a Japanese branch of IPAC.



BRITISH FACE
The face of it was a British man named Luke de Pulford, notorious for his harshly negative opinion of the Chinese. Its mission was to act cultivate negativity towards China in other countries – or, to use its own mission statement, it was to work as an "international cross-party group of legislators working towards reform on how democratic countries approach China."

The trouble was that if you looked closely at it, it did look like an obvious CIA anti-China operation. Fortunately (for them), the western mainstream media were very happy to write endless anti-China articles quoting IPAC and without mentioning the CIA or the NED or the OFS.

"A lot of people didn't want to be doing something that seemed to be doing the foreign policy bidding of the United States, so the way we built this thing had to feel to them that it was authentically cross-party," de Pulford told the Nikkei Weekly, an anti-China publication.




VIOLENCE, JIMMY LAI AND IPAC
Since then, IPAC has engaged in huge amounts of anti-Chinese activity. When Jimmy Lai was engaging with shockingly violent groups causing mayhem in Hong Kong, there were numerous communications with IPAC found on his phone.

In court, Jimmy Lai said that de Pulford contacted him so often that he became a nuisance.



HOBHOUSE DIVIDES WORLD INTO TWO
IPAC's mission is to foster division and prevent peace.

When French leader Emmanuel Macron said that the Chinese and Europeans should work together (and said something peace-cultivating about Taiwan), IPAC issued a harsh statement saying: "Monsieur le president, you do not speak for Europe."

Ms Hobhouse and her colleagues at IPAC have become the motherlode of demonization of China.

Ms Hobhouse obediently pushes the CIA narrative on Tibet, and on Taiwan, and sees the world divided into two – the glorious "free world", the one currently led by Mr Trump, and the rest of the world. That tells us a lot about her.



HARMING THE HONG KONG PEOPLE
So, in summary, the CIA set up the NED as a front organization, and the NED worked with Soros to set up IPAC as a front organization to push US foreign policy on China in countries outside the US.

IPAC has caused immense harm to the innocent people of Hong Kong, pushing for huge amounts of sanctions, demonizing us and punishing our community in numerous ways – punishments we have done nothing to deserve.

Those are the facts. Now you decide. Is she best described as a grandmother coming to visit her baby? Or is there more to the story? You decide.