Freedom House Authoritarians on Color Revolutions “Hostile forces have always attempted to make Hong Kong the bridgehead for subvert- “In my opinion, everything that happened in ing and infiltrating mainland China... The il Ukraine shook Russia... Young people began legal Occupy Central activities in 2014 came to discuss and think about Russias direc- as minority radical groups in Hong Kong, tion." under the instigation and support of external —lvan Mostovich, press secretary of the pro-Kremlin youth forces ... orchestrated a Hong Kong version of organization Nashi, April 2005 a color revolution.” es ; . —Gen. Sun Jianguo, deputy chief of general staff, People's We're only afraid these changes will be cha- Liberation Army, March 2015 otic.... It'll be a banana republic where the one who shouts loudest is the one who wins. “Various human rights organizations, think —Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, tanks, and simple NGOs of the U.S. and its [otter Le allies in Europe, concealing their true goals, have established a huge network of affiliates “We have sympathy with [Arab governments] around the world... It is they who act as the because they did not read warnings that ‘fifth column.” they should have read. That things re aS —Ramiz Mehdiyev, head of presidential administration, changing because of the wishes of their Azerbaijan, December 2014 people, and because of machinations of the imperialists. "The sides noted that Russia and China had —Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, June 2011 a common approach to the key problems of regional and international security and “It is hardly likely that the US will admit to expressed feaclinegs to eountetact color manipulating [Hong Kong's] ‘Occupy Central’ revolutions... Russia and China suffered the movement, just as it will not admit to manip- biggest losses during WWII and should be ulating other anti-China forces. It sees such resolutely opposed torah cileMmipis tO lexis activities as justified by ‘democracy,’ ‘free- fa