ARTICLE FROM 2015. CHINA NOT JUST GO AFTER US OFFICIALS BUT FUNDING GROUPS IN OPPOSITION TO US TO WEAKEN US..HAWAIIAN SOVEREIGNTY MOVEMENT
HONOLULU — China has suggested arming Hawaii’s independence activists in retaliation for U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and recently threatened to challenge American sovereignty by making legal claims to the Pacific islands as its territory.
Chinese threats to back several groups of Hawaiian independence activists who want to restore the islands’ constitutional monarchy, ousted in a U.S.-backed coup more than a century ago, have raised concerns that military facilities on the strategic central Pacific archipelago are threatened at a time when the Obama administration is engaged in a major shift toward Asia as part of its military and diplomatic rebalance.
recent years.
“A favorite comparison the ying pai has made to me is ‘How would the Pentagon like it if we provide arms to our friends in Hawaiian independence movement?’” he said. “I was incredulous because I had never heard of such a movement in Hawaii, but after checking, I met a few of them.”
Mr. Pillsbury said Chinese backing for the independence movement would be a concern. Some U.S. archival material shows U.S. authorities acted on their own in the 1898 annexation of the islands, he said, something Congress later investigated.
Mr. Pillsbury’s book, published last week, reveals that Chinese hawks in the military and Communist Party are key to a 100-year strategy to vanquish and overtake the United States as the world’s leading power.
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