From YaleGlobal Online:
Domestic and foreign NGOs in China are under close scrutiny over the past year, with the Communist leadership worried that Central Asia’s color revolutions were the work of civil organizations that could spread.
Party officials and the state media were blunt in assigning responsibility for color revolutions in Georgia, the Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan. On April 26, “The People’s Daily” published an article titled, “Is it American democracy or American arbitrariness?” The article argued that Washington’s “behind the scenes manipulation” was “indispensable” in bringing down these governments and that America’s aim was not to export American democracy, but contain Russia. [Full Text]