America's "second CIA" aims at subverting state power

肮脏的美国“第二中情局”:颠覆目标国政权是终极追求

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China Military Online
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Li Weichao
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2022-05-16 17:03:04

郭言

By Guo Yan

自诩“民主灯塔”的美国,经常借民主之名在世界各地兴风作浪。美国国家民主基金会自称“非官方、非营利”出镜率颇高,堪比“第二中情局”。中国外交部网站近日发布的一份事实清单,彻底揭开了其老底。作为世界各地分裂暴乱、“颜色革命”、政治危机、谎言谣言、价值渗透的幕后“黑手”,该基金会罪恶事实罄竹难书,引发国际社会强烈不满。

Priding itself as the "beacon of democracy", the US has been making waves around the world in the name of democracy. In this process, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a frequent name, an organization that claims to be "unofficial and non-profit" but actually acts as the second CIA. The Fact Sheet on the National Endowment for Democracy recently released by Chinese Foreign Ministry on its website showed NED's cloven hoof. The NED is the black hand behind a plethora of riots, "Color Revolutions", political crises, lies and rumors, and value infiltration – its crimes and atrocities are so appalling that they have aroused strong outcry in the international community.

美国国家民主基金会表面上披着“对别国民主提供支援”的“非政府组织”外衣,背地里却干着颠覆别国合法政府、培植亲美傀儡势力的勾当。在白宫和美国国会的持续资金支持下,该基金会通过资金资助形式操纵、指挥全球多家非政府组织,向目标国家和地区煽动所谓“民主运动”,成为美国政府“马前卒”“白手套”和“民主十字军”的主力。基金会创始人艾伦·温斯坦早在1991年就曾直言不讳地表示:“我们现在做的许多事情就是25年前美国中情局做的事情。”

NED is nominally an NGO that provides support for democracy abroad, while in fact, it is busy subverting the legitimate governments in foreign countries and cultivating pro-America puppet forces there. With endless funding from the White House and the US Congress, NED, by feeding them money, has manipulated and directed a lot of NGOs worldwide to instigate the so-called "democratic movement" in target countries and regions, turning them into Washington's "foot soldiers", "white gloves" and "democracy crusaders". NED's founder Alan Weinstein put it bluntly in a 1991 interview that a lot of what they were doing was what the CIA had done 25 years ago.

在美国国家民主基金会的任务列表中,颠覆目标国政权是终极追求。历史上美国煽动策划的“颜色革命”背后,均可见美国国家民主基金会的身影。不仅如此,它还在拉美、非洲、亚洲等地区广泛接触政治团体,粗暴干预他国内政,委内瑞拉、白俄罗斯、泰国等都深受其害。美国国家民主基金会带给各国的,不是社会稳定发展、人民安居乐业,而是民生凋敝、经济萎缩、社会对抗等一系列恶果。

On NED's agenda, subverting state power in target countries is its ultimate goal, which explains its presence behind all the "color revolutions" that the US has agitated and schemed in history. Moreover, the organization has reached out to political groups in Latin America, Africa, and Asia and grossly interfered in the internal affairs of other countries, including Venezuela, Belarus, and Thailand. What NED has brought to them is not social stability and development, not a content life and ample jobs for the people, but instead poverty, hunger, economic contraction, and confrontation between different social groups.

煽动分裂对抗是重中之重。美国国家民主基金会每年投入巨资开展反华项目。其官网公开数据显示,仅2020年,该组织就向与中国有关的69个项目提供1000多万美元,妄图推动各类危害中国政治社会稳定的活动“落地”。2004年到2020年的10多年间,该组织向各类“东突”组织提供了875.83万美元,是挑动、资助反华分裂活动的“专业户”和“大金主”。

Inciting division and confrontation is high on NED's agenda. It invests a whopping amount of money annually in anti-China programs. Data from its official website show that in 2020 alone, NED provided more than US$ 10 million to 69 China-related programs in an attempt to "land" a variety of activities endangering China's political and social stability. During the years from 2004 to 2020, it provided US$ 8,758,300 to all kinds of "East Turkestan" organizations, being the "mastermind" and "benefactor" behind all the anti-China secessionist activities.

制造谎言谣言是惯用套路。为了达到其不可告人的目的,美国国家民主基金会炮制虚假信息,“包装”成所谓的“学术权威”,妄图以“客观公正”的假面蒙蔽世人。比如,炮制涉疆谎言,为遏制中国造势;传播“政治病毒”,将新冠病毒溯源政治化;营造敌对氛围,炒作“锐实力”概念等,企图影响和塑造全球舆论与认知,妖魔化目标国。

Fabricating lies and rumors is NED's usual modus operandi. To achieve its shady purposes, NED would concoct disinformation and dress it up as so-called "academic and authoritarian information", trying to fool the world with an "objective and just" mask. It fabricated Xinjiang-related lies to fuel the momentum for containing China; it spread the "political virus" and politicized COVID-19 origins-tracing;and it fueled tensions and hyped up the concept of "sharp power" in an attempt to shape global opinion and perceptions and demonize target countries.

种种事实表明,美国国家民主基金会是鼓动分裂的毒药,包括美国人在内的越来越多国家和人民对其公开批判。美国前联邦众议员罗恩·保罗表示,“这是一个花着美国纳税人钱,却颠覆着民主的组织”。委内瑞拉国际问题专家路易斯·德尔加罗更是直言,美国国家民主基金会是反民主的“犯罪组织”。

All these facts prove that NED is the poison of division. More and more countries and their people, including Americans, are condemning it. Former member of the US House of Representatives Ron Paul called it an organization that uses American taxpayers' money to subvert democracy. Luis Delgaro, a Venezuelan expert on international issues, was more straightforward by calling it an anti-democratic crime gang.

Editor's note: This article is originally published on www.ce.cn, and is translated from Chinese into English and edited by the China Military Online. The information, ideas or opinions appearing in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of eng.chinamil.com.cn.

 

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