The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has published a list of past misdeeds of the US-based National Endowment for Democracy on its website. From the 1980s to the early 2020s, from Libya to Syria, from Bolivia to Algeria, the NED has overthrown or tried to overthrow one regime after another.

It is clear that for the NED "democracy" means "US interests". The NED has supported one organization after another to try and overthrow regimes in various countries.

Ever since it was founded in 1983, the NED has been a tool for the US to safeguard its hegemony around the world. Whenever the US has a problem with some country or region, the NED is always there to find problems with its "democracy".

Take the case of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Since Hong Kong's return to China in 1997, the NED has released 18 reports and funded certain home-haters in Hong Kong to create trouble there. Whenever the US' strategy of "containing" China needs ammunition, the NED is always ready with a report on Hong Kong.

The only way to counter the NED is by remaining strong. Hong Kong has suffered much from the NED's repeated attacks and US politicians' tireless blame game, which intensified the rioting in the SAR in 2019. But the Hong Kong people, backed by the motherland, withstood the pressure and defeated the attempts to launch a "color revolution" there.

On Sunday, Hong Kong held the first chief executive election after its electoral system was improved in March 2021. With John Lee Ka-chiu's election as the sixth-term chief executive-elect, Hong Kong people have set a glorious example of defeating the NED's evil designs.

It is time for the NED to reflect on the rationale for its existence, and for other countries and regions suffering from it to stand strong against it.