China’s CCP Injecting Fentanyl into Tariff Talks to Cut Trade Deal
According to recent reports, the CCP is “weighing” cracking down on the deadly flow of fentanyl to the United States—not out of humanitarian concern, but as a calculated bargaining chip to gain tariff concessions from Washington. In other words, the regime is treating American lives as a form of currency.
It is acting as a terrorist holding innocent victims hostage.
According to spokesmen for Shen Yun Performing Arts, an American company, this willingness on the part of the CCP to use human lives as bargaining chips, says all one needs to know about what the CCP cares about; it’s NOT human lives.
Levi Browde, Executive Director with the New York-based Falun Dafa Information Center and works closely with Shen Yun.
Leeshai Lemish, Current Emcee of Shen Yun shows and has been with Shen Yun since 2006.
For Shen Yun, this reinforces what they have long conveyed through their internationally acclaimed performances: the Chinese Communist Party is not the legitimate voice of the Chinese people—it is a repressive regime that undermines truth, tradition, and human dignity.
Shen Yun was founded by artists in exile who practice Falun Gong, a peaceful spiritual discipline the CCP has brutally persecuted. Through breathtaking dance and music, Shen Yun revives China’s 5,000-year culture—much of which the CCP has tried to erase. Each performance is both a celebration of traditional Chinese civilization and a subtle act of defiance against totalitarianism.
While Beijing weaponizes fentanyl and manipulates international negotiations, Shen Yun continues to expose the regime’s true nature by highlighting stories the CCP would rather silence—from the resilience of spiritual believers to the courage of those who stand up for freedom.
As Americans grow increasingly skeptical of CCP influence—from TikTok to trade to the drug crisis—Shen Yun provides a rare opportunity to experience the beauty of China without the filter of communism.
Shen Yun performers and spokespersons are available for interviews to discuss how art and culture can offer critical insight into the current U.S.-China divide—and why their message resonates more than ever today.
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Relevant Article(s)
Beijing weighs fentanyl offer to US to start trade talks, WSJ reports
OPTIONAL Q&A:
- With the CCP reportedly using fentanyl restrictions as a bargaining chip in trade talks, how does Shen Yun view this behavior in the context of the regime’s broader global strategy?
- Shen Yun presents a version of China that existed before communism—how does this contrast with the China represented by today’s headlines, such as fentanyl exports and trade coercion?
- Why is it important for American audiences to understand the difference between the Chinese Communist Party and traditional Chinese culture?
- How does Shen Yun use performance art to shed light on the human rights abuses or moral failures of the CCP, like those reflected in its role in the fentanyl crisis?
- The CCP often accuses critics like Shen Yun of being “anti-China.” How do you respond to that, especially in light of the regime’s actions that harm people globally, such as the fentanyl trade?
- Do you see growing American skepticism of the CCP as an opportunity for Shen Yun to reach more people with its cultural and moral message?
- How have audiences responded to Shen Yun’s portrayal of modern-day repression in China? Has this reaction changed as tensions between the U.S. and China have grown?
- In your view, how can culture and storytelling through art play a role in pushing back against the CCP’s influence both inside and outside of China?
- What message does Shen Yun hope to send to audiences around the world about freedom, truth, and resilience?
- Where can we learn more about the beautiful art of Shen Yun, and how it motivates others?
- The official website can be found here. Tickets to shows are also available there for purchase.
ABOUT LEESHAI LEMISH…
Leeshai Lemish has been with Shen Yun for 18 years. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Chinese history and language from Pomona College, California, and his master’s in international relations from the London School of Economics. He has spent extended periods studying, working, and conducting research throughout East Asia, and has authored articles on Chinese current affairs in both English and Chinese. He joined Shen Yun Performing Arts as an MC when the company was founded in 2006 and has since emceed close to two thousand performances with the company, taking the stage with Shen Yun at prestigious theaters such as Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center, the London Coliseum, Tokyo Opera City, and many others worldwide. In addition to his performance role, he has tracked and documented on his website over 100 cases of the Chinese Communist Party and its agents trying to sabotage Shen Yun internationally. He has testified on transnational repression in front of Congress, has been a featured guest on television and radio shows around the world, and is the host of the podcast Shen Yun Voices.
ABOUT LEVI BROWDE…
Levi Browde serves as the Executive Director with the New York-based Falun Dafa Information Center – an organization dedicated to ending the human rights abuses against people who practice Falun Gong in China.
A career software entrepreneur, Levi’s life changed dramatically in 1999 when his best friend came to the office one morning and announced the Chinese Communist Party had taken away his mother in Beijing to be tortured and “brainwashed.” This marked the beginning of his volunteer work to defend human rights in China. Two years later, Levi himself was detained in a Chinese jail outside Beijing for secretly meeting with Western reporters and protesting on Tiananmen Square.
Over the past 20 years, Browde has been interviewed and quoted by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, CNN, the Associated Press, TIME Magazine, BBC, AFP, and other media outlets. He has spoken about Falun Gong and human rights in China at briefings on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, at the United Nations human rights sessions in Geneva, Switzerland.
Browde studied East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University and is an avid supporter of traditional Chinese culture. He founded several software start-ups, and lives in New York with his wife and two sons.
Samples of Levi on camera:
https://tv.faluninfo.net/unmasking-chinas-gestapo-610-office/
https://tv.faluninfo.net/levi-browde-exposes-the-new-york-times-distorted-coverage-of-human-rights/
ABOUT YING CHEN…
Ying Chen is an orchestra conductor who has been with Shen Yun from the very beginning. She can offer insights and personal stories about how Shen Yun started as an all-volunteer group of first- generation immigrants, and through hard work, faith, and a relentless dedication to a grand vision to revive a culture almost destroyed in communist China, created the fastest growing performing arts company in American history.
Ying can also tell the horrific story of her family’s detention and torture in China, an experience that helped drive her and the entire community at Shen Yun to create a production that would shed light on the tyranny of the Chinese communist regime, while also inspiring people around the world with hope and a renewed sense of our common humanity.
The story of Ying, her family, and community at Shen Yun is a quintessential tale of facing the evils of the world with resilience and faith, and never letting others, even the largest totalitarian regime on earth, take away one’s hope.
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