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Chinese Communists Weaponizing American Media Against Americans on American Soil

Explore the story of a great American company built by a faith-based community that is now targeted by a Chinese Communist Party sinister campaign to silence and destroy it, and its all unfolding right here on U.S. soil.

The New York Times has recently published a series of hit pieces accusing Shen Yun Performing Arts of exploiting young people. These articles are the centerpiece of an illicit campaign launched by the Chinese regime to sabotage an American company and demonize the faith-based community that built it. To date, this illicit Chinese campaign has demonstrated an ability to weaponize our mainstream media, bait our government agencies, and take advantage of our judicial system. Furthermore, it constitutes a blueprint for Beijing to manipulate and control our media, our government, and American public discourse against any target of its choosing.

Chinese Communists Weaponizing US Media

What is really going on? Why does the Chinese regime target Shen Yun? How does the New York Times fit into the picture?

And what are the ramifications for the new administration as it tries to limit CCP influence and power within the United States?

For more than 20 years, Levi Browde and his nonprofit have been studying this “unrestricted warfare” being waged on American soil.

Shen Yun has since responded, noting that the articles have been “riddled with inaccuracies.”

“The recent Times articles that have appeared over the past several months are precisely an attack on the faith that drives us and the hard work that characterizes our performance culture,” the group noted earlier this month.

The group has been under consistent watch by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), even though it has been absolutely celebratory in tone when it comes to all things Chinese culture. It believes that the CCP has been pushing tactics to discredit the popular show at every turn, mainly due to its organizers, Falun Gong, being involved.

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Q&A:

  1. Levi, can you explain how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been using media manipulation to target Shen Yun Performing Arts specifically?
  2. What is the connection between the recent hit pieces in The New York Times and Beijing’s broader campaign against Shen Yun and the faith-based community behind it?
  3. Why is the CCP so determined to silence Shen Yun, particularly given that the company celebrates Chinese culture and traditions?
  4. How has the Chinese regime weaponized American media to advance its political agenda, and what role has The New York Times played in this?
  5. You’ve been studying this “unrestricted warfare” for over 20 years. Can you explain what that term means and how it manifests in the context of Shen Yun’s situation?
  6. How does this media manipulation tactic by the CCP fit into a broader strategy to influence U.S. public discourse and control narratives about China and its opposition?
  7. What steps do you believe the U.S. government should take to combat foreign interference and limit CCP influence in American media and society?
  8. Given the current political climate, what ramifications do you foresee for the new administration as it attempts to curb CCP influence, especially regarding American companies like Shen Yun?
  9. The official website can be found here. Tickets to shows are also available there for purchase.

FROM FALUN DAFA INFORMATION CENTER

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. 

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