Taiwan independence movement
In comments published in the pro-Beijing and Communist Party paper "Wen Wei Po", Lew Mon-hung, a Hong Kong member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, has criticized Young, stating that he had covertly instigated and planned the Hong Kong Autonomy Movement, which Lew compared to the Taiwan independence movement, as Young was the then Consulate General of the United States in Hong Kong, in an attempt to split Hong Kong away from China.