In 1988, an interviewer asked him what condition China needs to have real historical change. He answered that China needs to have 300 years of colonization. Liu attributed what Hong Kong is today to a hundred years of colonization, so China would need 300 years of colonization for it to become like Hong Kong. (Här finns artikeln)
That was more than two decades ago, but in 2007, Liu stated that he did not want to take back what he had said in 1988, because it reflects a belief he retains. He attributes progress in China to Westernization and has said that the more that Westernization exists in the various spheres of Chinese society, the more progress is attained. He is either woefully ignorant of the nature of colonialism, which involved legally-mandated racial discrimination and the colonizers’ political and economic monopolies, or Liu finds it a congenial alternative because he is convinced of Western superiority. This can hardly be expected to be a sentiment shared by most Chinese.
When 2006 asked about his opinion about Iraq war, he gave 15-20 minutes praise how great it is that US is spreading freedom and democracy in Iraq, to the point that our British camera-man was making faces to me behind his back–quite embarrassing. remember this was 2006, already most of the world as well as most of the US were criticizing the war. We interviewed him for about 1.5-2 hours with diverse issues. After he left, we all agreed that he has nothing to offer except being a whole-hearted worshiper of the US.
Liu accepted funding from NED (National Endowment for Democracy). NED was set up in the early 1980s under President Reagan in the wake of all the negative revelations about the CIA, essentially, a NGO front for CIA.
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