Gang of four

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https://www.graphicnews.com/en/pages/39439/politics-hong-kongs-gang-of-four

State media also applied it to a similar group of Hong Kong officials in 2013, with local Catholic leader Joseph Zen standing in for Mr Ho. https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-state-media-labels-hk-democrats-as-new-gang-of-four

O apelido da Gang of Four foi usado pela primeira vez para descrever a esposa de Mao, Jiang Qing, e três outras figuras que chegaram ao poder durante o período de uma década de convulsão política conhecida como a Revolução Cultural. “A Gangue dos Quatro conspirou para usurpar o partido e tomar o poder”, disse o Diário do Povo em novembro de 1976.

Jimmy Lai 

in China’s state media he is a “traitor”, the biggest “black hand” behind last year’s huge rallies and the head of a new “Gang of Four” conspiring with foreign nations to undermine the motherland.

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In 2013, Mainland Chinese state media labelled Anson Chan, Martin Lee, Joseph Zen and Jimmy Lai as ‘Hong Kong's "Gang of Four"’ due to their alleged foreign connections.^[22]

In 2019, Chinese state media labelled Anson Chan, Martin Lee, Jimmy Lai and Albert Ho as the gang of four due to their alleged collusion with foreign forces in relation to the 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests.^[23][24] The phrase has in turn been criticized by the four individuals.^[23]

 "Hong Kong's 'Gang of Four' hits back at Beijing". FT. August 22, 2019. Archivedfrom the original on August 25, 2019. Retrieved August 30, 2019. Official Chinese Communist party mouthpieces have run editorials over several days labelling the four individuals as Hong Kong’s “Gang of Four”, a chilling reference to four party members who rose to prominence during China’s Cultural Revolution in the 1960s before being charged with treason."

China Compares Hong Kong Democrats to Mao-Era ‘Gang of Four’By
Sheryl Tian Tong Lee and
Dandan Li
19 de agosto de 2019 09:35 GMT+1 Updated on 19 de agosto de 2019 13:00 GMT+1


Media singles out publisher Lai, Democratic Party founder Lee

Beijing struggles to manage leaderless protest movement

Four senior Hong Kong democrats have found themselves labeled by Chinese state media as a new “Gang of Four,” as Beijing seeks to assign blame for the largely leaderless protest movement rocking the city.
A string of state media editorials have compared the long-time opposition figures -- including former Chief Secretary Anson Chan, former Democratic Party chief Albert Ho, Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai and Democratic Party founder Martin Lee -- to the group of Mao Zedong allies prosecuted after his death in 1976. The media outlets carrying such pieces include the official publication of the Communist Party’s highest law enforcement body, the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission.

An edition of the party’s People’s Daily newspaper aimed at an overseas audience called the four “secretive middlemen and modern traitors.” “Places and nails have been saved for them on shame pole of history,” the commentary said.

The choice of targets underscores Beijing’s struggle to get its hands around the loose coalition of opposition groups that have orchestrated 11 straight weeks of flash-mob sit-ins, worker strikes, police station sieges and historically large marches. While Chan, Ho and Lee remain active commentators and Lai’s media network backs the protests, it’s been years since any has been seen as a central opposition figure.

“It’s really a joke. I don’t know on what basis do they elevate me to that level,” Ho told Bloomberg News. “Probably they are just finding somebody to blame for the protests.”
Mark Simon, group director for the media company Lai founded, Next Digital Ltd., said that Lai wasn’t concerned about such Communist Party “labels.”
‘Color Revolution’
The editorials represent some of the most direct personal attacks leveled as China attempts to discredit the protest movement that has ground on for weeks in the former British colony. While Chinese officials have compared the protests to terrorism and a “color revolution” they’ve generally stopped short of blaming particular individuals for the unrest.

The Gang of Four moniker was first used to describe Mao’s wife, Jiang Qing, and three other figures who came to power during the decade-long period of political upheaval known as the Cultural Revolution. “The Gang of Four conspired to usurp the party and seize power,” the People’s Daily said in November 1976. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-19/china-compares-hong-kong-s-democrats-to-mao-era-gang-of-four

In a coordinated sweep that day, April 18, police rounded up 15 people, spanning generations and ideologies: Martin Lee, Hong Kong’s octogenarian “godfather of democracy,” was greeted by seven officers at his door; the media tycoon Jimmy Lai was walked from his home, his glasses slipping from the bridge of his nose onto his blue surgical mask; and Margaret Ng, a veteran lawyer, made her way into a police station clutching in her arms a copy of the book, China’s National Security: Endangering Hong Kong’s Rule of Law? https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/06/carrie-lam-hong-kong-china-protest/612955/

Outros nomes:

jul20 Activists Nathan Law Kwun-chung and Joshua Wong Chi-fung, who earlier vowed to run for September’s elections under the Demosisto umbrella, said their recent withdrawal from the group would not deter them from running as independent candidates.

Law and exiled activist Brian Leung Kai-ping testified via video conference before the United States Congress’ House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday night about the new security law’s implications, the first local political activists to address a high-profile foreign audience since the legislation took effect.

Tai and another co-founder of the protests, sociologist Chan Kin-man, were sentenced to 16 months in jail after they were convicted over the unprecedented civil disobedience movement, during which protesters brought several parts of the city to a standstill for 79 straight days seeking greater democracy.

The third founder of the movement, Reverend Chu Yiu-ming, 75, was spared jail but given a suspended sentence considering his poor health and contribution to society.