Pro-Beijing Hong Kong newspapers accused pro-democracy candidates excluded from the Macau elections of links to independence movements in Taiwan and Hong Kong, claiming they had attended training camps organized by the CIA, the US secret services. Chinese state-owned daily Hong Kong Commercial Daily wrote on Tuesday that the reason for the removal of lawmaker Sulu Sou and Scott Chiang from the Macau Legislative Assembly elections was their alleged participation in a “training of ‘color revolution’ [allegedly to instigate uprisings against anti-American governments] of the CIA and Taiwan Military Information Agency in April 2014.” Sing Tao Daily also wrote that the two Macau politicians are “suspected of anti-China links”, stating that Sulu Sou participated in 2013 and 2014 in a “training camp for young leaders” in Taiwan, “such like Scott Chiang”.