IN-DEPTH / IN-DEPTH By GT staff reporters Published: Mar 09, 2021 04:16 AM
NED s spending on anti-China institutes and projects in 2020 Source: NED website Graphic: GT
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a veteran anti-China foundation financed by the US government, has been discovered to have spent more than $10 million to fund secessionist organizations and subversive activities in China in 2020. In the financial statements published on NED s website in February, at least 69 programs and activities related to secessionists and anti-China forces received grants in the past year, maliciously interfering in China s internal affairs using pretexts like human rights and religious freedom.
NED is notorious for propagating anti-China propaganda and meddling in other countries internal affairs. Funding for this self-proclaimed private, nonprofit organization, which largely comes from the US Congress, has long been funneled to secessionists in China s Hong Kong, Xinjiang,