By his own admission, Joshua Wong isn’t physically intimidating.
An unlikely hero of last year’s Hong Kong protests demanding free elections, the slender 18-year-old with a bowl haircut and black-framed glasses laughs off Beijing propagandists’ claims that he is in Los Angeles this week for military training by his U.S. paymasters.
“Some people in mainland China might think I get funding from the U.S. government, but I don’t think anyone believes I have come here for army training,” the diminutive protest leader said with a laugh, spreading his scrawny arms to emphasize their dearth of muscle. “To get training like that, I’d have to be a lot stronger and taller.”
Clumsy attempts by China’s communist government to cast protesters as Western puppets work to the advantage of Hong Kong’s democracy supporters, Wong said, because they expose the tactics to which the ruling party will stoop, eroding its credibility, especially with young people.
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