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.”
Read Full Article »