Laura Ruggeri explores the work of U.S. intelligence agencies to seed a Hong Kong color revolution by exploiting a fundamental contradiction: the political return of Hong Kong to China did not correspond with the ideological and cultural decolonization necessary to curb a hegemonic neocolonial mindset.

Puerto Rico provides a tragic case study of US imperial parasitism that fundamentally challenges the Hong Kong pro-democracy camp’s presumption that “Western imperialism’s colonial governments are not only ‘more free’ but also ‘more democratic.’”