Washington’s Quiet Proxy War Against Vietnam

First appeared on NEO: New Eastern Outlook
Washington’s meddling across Asia has grabbed headlines recently in Hong Kong where US National Endowment for Democracy (NED) funded opposition leaders attempted to trigger a ‘color revolution’ targeting the government of Beijing and Hong Kong’s local administrators. Its spectacular failure was owed to the almost immediate exposure of the protesters as foreign-backed proxies serving foreign interests.
Additionally, political chaos has plagued Thailand amid a half-year struggle to oust Wall Street-Washington-backed dictator Thaksin Shinawatra and his subversive, well-funded proxy political front and various faux-rights advocates all extensively funded by Washington. Malaysia has likewise fought carbon-copies of US-backed opposition fronts in Hong Kong and Thailand, with its own battle against ‘Berish’ led by Wall Street and Washington’s Anwar Ibrahim.
Popular support, despite reports by the Western media, in each respective country, has been exposed as extremely small. In Thailand, for instance, even at the height of Shinawatra’s bid to seize back power in 2010, his ‘red shirt’ movement represented a paltry 7% of Thailand’s 70 million citizens – a minority that has only shrunk since then.
In Myanmar, US-British creation, Aung San Suu Kyi has also expended her credibility and illusion of popular support. Her bid to work her way into Myanmar’s political order has left even her own supporters disillusioned – not mentioning her support of Myanmar’s brutal and infinitely racist, ‘saffron monks’ who regularly lead machete wielding mobs amid riots of mass murder against Rohingya refugees.
However, US meddling is not limited to these countries. Indeed, the familiar template of ‘pro-democracy’ fronts backed by NED and the Western media can be seen manifesting itself, if to a lesser degree, across the under-reported political landscape of Vietnam.
In a rare episode, US meddling has broken the surface recently with complaints across NED’s network of faux human rights advocates and the Western media over the arrest of Nguyen Dinh Ngoc, described by the Associated Press in their article, ‘Nguyen Dinh Ngoc, Blogger, Detained In Vietnam,’ only as a ‘blogger.’ AP would report:

This post was published at The Daily Sheeple on January 4th, 2015.