From the Sydney Morning Herald:
Chinese security agencies are tightening their controls over foreign non-government organisations operating in the country, fearing they are a cover for efforts to overthrow communist rule.
Over the past two years, Beijing has watched with growing anxiety the overthrow of authoritarian regimes led by Soviet-era strongmen in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan by people-power opposition movements.
Intelligence and Communist Party officials have been sent to these countries to study what are known as “colour” revolutions – the name comes from the rose, orange and yellow symbols adopted by their respective oppositions – and devise countermeasures. Although in each case the existing government was overthrown after manipulated elections and clumsy attacks on opponents, such as the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko in Ukraine, Beijing sees a common thread of active democratic proselytising by foreign activists.
