Both are activist-minded liberal internationalist types with PhDs in literature. Writings under both aliases are filled with warnings of the “creeping control of the Chinese Communist Party.”No matter which alias he is employing, Brian Kern’s mission is clear: To portray the CPC as one of the world’s most dangerous evildoers.Kern’s books also are filled with clues exposing him as the man behind both Xun Yuezang and Kong Tsung-gan. Chan is actively engaged in a wide range of community and charitable causes, as well as a supporter of the development of arts and cultural endeavors. Did he know that his columnist, Kong, was actually an American named Brian Kern?This August, Kong Tsung-gan published a long-winded “An indication of just how draconian the CCP edict is, is that I could be arrested, charged with ‘colluding with foreign forces’, and face up to life in prison just for calling for sanctions on CCP and HK officials,” he wrote.In reality, the author was not colluding with foreign forces. And why is he yellowfacing as Kong Tsung-gan?Brian Patrick Kern has been a fixture at the Hong Kong protests since they erupted in 2019. In July 2019, Kong Tsung-gan was Around the same time, an American man in Hong Kong named Brian Kern A close listen to both audio clips, along with an interview Kong furnished to an Italian interviewer, demonstrates that Indeed, the distinctively American voices of Kong Tsung-gan and Brian Kern are the same.So why have news outlets like Hong Kong Free Press failed to disclose that Kong Tsung-gan is a pen name for an American man?
She had been denounced in Chinese state media for her overseas activities. But unlike MacMaster, who In 2008, they moved to Hong Kong, where Kern began A few of Kern’s former students appear to work with him behind the cover of his false Asian identity. The previous week, 80-year-old Anson Chan, former chief secretary both before and after the 1997 handover, announced that she was stepping back from public life following the death of her daughter. He At around the time he created his Twitter account, Kong Tsung-gan published his Thanks to his continual stream of content on Twitter and Medium, and his platform on the website Hong Kong Free Press, Kong Tsung-gan has become one of mainstream Western media’s go-to sources for soundbites.Since bursting onto the Hong Kong Twitter scene, Kong Tsung-gan has been quoted by a who’s who of Western corporate media outlets. Fang's father was a textile merchant and the son of Fang Zhenwu (1885–1941), a well-known Kuomintang general who fought against the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Western Media’s Favorite Hong Kong ‘Freedom Struggle Writer’ Is American ex-Amnesty Staffer In Yellowface © 2010 - 2020 | Strategic Culture Foundation | Sir Harry Fang Sin-yang, GBM, CBE, JP (Chinese: 方心讓, 2 August 1923 – 24 August 2009) was a Hong Kong orthopaedic surgeon, legislator and campaigner who promoted rehabilitation services.He was widely known as the "father of rehabilitation" in Asia. necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Our research indicates that Kong’s editors and prominent protest cheerleaders were likely aware of the deceptive ploy.At some point, Kong changed his Twitter avatar to a black-and-white headshot of an unknown Asian person. Who is Brian Kern? (It is possible Kern named both his publishing house and his daughter after Kern’s Orientalist stunt could be compared to that of Unlike Hudson’s fake Chinese persona, however, Kern is a political actor posing as a native grassroots activist to spread propaganda. Life Early years. A search of the Wayback Machine internet archive shows that this photo remained up until As of August 2020, Kong Tsung-gan’s Twitter account boasts more than 32,000 followers. Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson (1767–1818), British politician and peer; Given name. Both are activist-minded liberal internationalist types with PhDs in literature. On 9 May 1986, after investigating the case, the Social Welfare Department with authorisation from Anson Chan broke into the housing flat and forcibly separated the child from her mother under a child and mother protection law. Routinely cited as a grassroots activist and writer by major media organizations and published in English-language media, the fictitious character Kong appears to have been concocted to disseminate anti-China propaganda behind the cover of yellowface.Through Kong Tsung-gan’s prolific digital presence and uninterrogated reputation in mainstream Western media, he disseminates a constant stream of content hyping up the Hong Kong “freedom struggle” while clamoring for the US to turn up the heat on China.Whispers about Kong’s true identity have been circulating on social media among Hong Kong residents, and was even mentioned in a The Grayzone spoke to several locals outraged by a deceptive stunt they considered not only unethical, but racist. He has been Kern has even been filmed coordinating with protesters and rioters in In another video that went viral on social media, Kern was filmed Clearly, Kern enjoys the spotlight, and has no apparent fear of local authorities.But few people know that Brian Kern also hides behind the persona of Kong Tsung-gan, furnishing quotes to media outlets across the West as an expert native source on the Hong Kong “freedom struggle.”Not only does Brian Patrick Kern write as Kong Tsung-gan, which he romanized to seem like a Hong Kong native; he also writes under the pen name Xun Yuezang, romanized to appear as a Chinese mainlander.
His ploy is therefore more reminiscent of the Kern’s personal profile is similar to MacMaster’s as well.
In July 2008, Ip was once again embroiled in controversy for her comments about police tactics used against reporters covering the heated scenes in queues for Olympics tickets. Over the years, her business has been expanding from Hong Kong into other territories such as mainland China, the