China-Linked Groups Violently Repressed Protesters In US During Xi Jinping Visit: Report

Diaspora groups supportive of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) violently repressed dissident protesters during President Xi Jinping’s November visit to San Francisco, California, for the 2023 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit, according to The Washington Post.

At least 35 pro-CCP groups representing Chinese nationals in the U.S. coordinated to protest against dissidents of the regime who were protesting Xi’s visit to San Francisco, with Chinese Consulates providing hotels and meals for the pro-CCP protesters, according to The Washington Post’s analysis of photos, videos and chat messages of the groups during the protests. The pro-CCP protesters, who had Chinese Consulate diplomats among them, sprayed anti-CCP protesters with chemical irritants, hit them with flagpoles and used gangs of young men to beat dissidents.

The Washington Post’s reporting is based, in part, on revelations uncovered by the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation nearly a year earlier. The DCNF found that Lu Qiang, designated as an “Overseas Chinese leader,” with deep ties to the CCP, arranged for hundreds of foreign nationals living in the U.S. to bus into San Francisco during Xi Jinping’s visit to welcome him. He utilized his travel agency, Deer USA Inc., to arrange for 20 buses to carry nearly 1,000 people and hired ten armed guards to “maintain order on the scene.”

“From Australia to Europe and across North America … mobilizes surrogates to ostracize, intimidate, surround and silence the activists,” Glenn Tiffert, a distinguished research fellow at the Hoover Institution, told The Washington Post. “The tactics differ, the goal is the same: to isolate, bury and extinguish so that it alone monopolizes the field.”