U.S. State Department Flipping the Script with CCP Spies on American Soil
The Chinese Communist Party is running spy ops on U.S. soil—and they’ve been doing it under our noses for decades. While Washington is waking up to the danger, Shen Yun Performing Arts has been fighting this war in the open for years—battling intimidation, sabotage, extortion, threats of mass murder, and surveillance right here in America. The CCP isn’t just stealing tech—they’re trying to erase truth, silence dissidents, and crush anyone who exposes their brutality.
With the U.S. State Department announcing plans to expand scrutiny of all Chinese visa holders, the public is finally catching up to a truth Shen Yun Performing Arts has been sounding the alarm on for years: The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) exploits educational, cultural, and diplomatic channels to infiltrate and suppress free societies—including right here in America.
Ying Chen, an orchestra conductor for Shen Yun, knows this persecution firsthand. Her family back in China has been tortured by the CCP. Why? For one, it’s because it’s a way to get her to stop. Yet, Ying continues.
For years, the CCP has waged a shadow war against Shen Yun and Falun Gong, the spiritual practice of many of its artists. From pressuring theaters to cancel performances, to orchestrating smear campaigns and cyberattacks, the regime has treated Shen Yun as a threat—because the company exposes the CCP’s human rights abuses through breathtaking dance and music.
Now, with the State Department confirming that visa abuse, intellectual property theft, and covert surveillance are ongoing concerns, spokesmen from Shen Yun Performing Arts and Falun Dafa Association are uniquely positioned to offer firsthand testimony. Conductor Ying Chen, Shen Yun emcee and historian Leeshai Lemish, and Falun Dafa Information Center executive director Levi Browde can speak to:
The CCP’s years-long harassment and infiltration efforts targeting Chinese Americans.
How students, “journalists,” and cultural liaisons on U.S. soil have been used to collect intelligence and intimidate dissidents.
Firsthand accounts of surveillance, coercion, and intimidation by agents linked to Chinese consulates.
Why CCP-linked visa holders present a national security threat beyond academia or tech.
This is not theoretical. The stories they’ve lived—unwelcome phone calls, car break-ins, even sabotage of Shen Yun tours—are now part of a wider reckoning.
Spokesmen are available immediately for interviews or editorial comment to contextualize the State Department’s policy shift and offer insight into the CCP’s global influence operations.
Schedule an interview with a Shen Yun spokesman today!!
Relevant Article(s)
State Department Says It Will Expand Scrutiny of All Chinese Visa Holders in US | The Epoch Times
OPTIONAL Q&A:
- What specific forms of harassment or surveillance has Shen Yun faced from CCP operatives on U.S. soil?
- Can you explain how the CCP has weaponized Chinese visa holders—students, academics, or journalists—to gather intelligence or suppress dissent here in America?
- Why do you think the State Department has taken this long to acknowledge and act on the threat posed by CCP visa abuse?
- Have you seen any direct links between Chinese consulates in the U.S. and efforts to disrupt Shen Yun performances or target Falun Gong practitioners?
- What kinds of pressure have U.S. institutions—such as theaters, universities, or media outlets—faced from the CCP regarding Shen Yun or Falun Gong?
- Do you believe CCP-linked individuals currently working in the U.S. cultural or media sectors are still carrying out soft espionage on behalf of the regime?
- How should the U.S. government differentiate between legitimate Chinese visitors and those operating as covert agents or ideological enforcers?
- What reforms or policies would you like to see from Congress or the State Department to protect Chinese dissidents and performers in the U.S.?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 for shows are also available there for purchase. You are not only going to see a performance like no other but you are being a champion for freedom.
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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