This piece breaks down a coordinated push of leftist protests in the U.S., the role of Neville Roy Singham and his global funding network, evidence tying those efforts to Chinese propaganda channels, and the ways the United Front Work Department and other Beijing organs exploit American street movements. It looks at money flows, documented ties to activist groups, and disturbing examples of direct interference and incitement. The tone is plain and unsparing: this is political warfare being waged on our soil.
“No Kings” and other protests are rolling across cities this year, with organizers planning May 1 general strikes meant to shut things down. These demonstrations are not random outbursts; political operatives and funders are backing an organized protest industry aimed at influence and disruption. On this front, Senator Josh Hawley warned then-U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi that “Recent reporting indicates that these protests are neither spontaneous nor decentralized,” and he called for scrutiny into “radical left-wing organizations and individuals funding anti-ICE protests—including those with possible ties to the Chinese Communist Party.”
At the center of much attention is Neville Roy Singham, an American tech billionaire now based in Shanghai, who openly promotes the goal of “telling China’s story well.” Singham runs what has been described as an “international Revolutionary Front” of roughly 2,000 groups, with reporting identifying at least 200 organizations in his network “that directly work on propaganda that parrots the anti-American messaging of the Chinese Communist Party.” Those outputs come from “digital shops from New York City to Los Angeles.”
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Los Angeles has seen a string of violent left-wing protests, including confrontations at the Roybal Federal Building tied to anti-ICE demonstrations. Analysts warn these are not purely domestic flare-ups; they fit the pattern of foreign-directed political warfare that seeks to destabilize civic institutions and public trust. As one expert put it, these are organized efforts with money, messaging, and operational support behind them.
“Some may dismiss the No Kings protests as unfocused therapy sessions for radical activists and the leftist billionaire-backed professional protest industry,” Kerry Gershaneck, author of “Political Warfare: Strategies for Combating China’s Plan to ‘Win Without Fighting,’” told me. “But Singham and the Communist Party’s United Front Work Department have much more insidious goals. Ultimately, they seek the destruction of the U.S. and our belief system through psychological warfare, disinformation, cognitive attacks … all designed to shred our national identity and cohesion.”
Financially, Singham’s footprint is serious. Between 2017 and last year there were 223 transactions moving $591 million across continents, and an inner network of 11 U.S. nonprofits sits at the core, receiving roughly $401 million. That money supports advocacy, media production, and organizing that can be folded into broader influence operations, including groups like Code Pink, which is tied to Singham through co-founder Jodie Evans.
Singham denies collaborating with the Chinese regime, yet he operates openly in China and engages in projects that align with United Front goals. The UFWD is known to engage foreign partners and is widely seen as a mechanism for advancing Party objectives abroad, sometimes alongside intelligence elements. “Communist China’s primary means of defeating America is political warfare,” Gershaneck observed in 2023, and that message is baked into how influence is pursued.
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Commentators like former diplomat Charles Burton note that “Some of the most organized and militant elements in recent high-profile, anti-U.S. protests have documented financial and operational ties to Chinese influence networks.” The scale of Beijing’s outreach is staggering: “China controls the most expansive, heavily resourced, and sophisticated propaganda capabilities available to any regime in history,” Gershaneck notes, and UFWD budgets reportedly dwarf traditional diplomatic spending.
Beijing has even played a direct role in past unrest. People’s Daily carried an editorial calling for a “people’s war” on America back in May 2019, and the UFWD has been linked to support for demonstrations, including those in the wake of George Floyd’s death. There are allegations that China’s Houston consulate provided logistical help to violent protesters and that a PLA intelligence unit used data to identify Americans likely to participate in protests and then sent them videos on how to “incite” riots.
Even brazen acts like the 900,000 counterfeit $1 bills seized at a Minnesota border crossing raise questions about state tolerance or worse. Those bills, printed in China, suggest a level of coordination that cannot be chalked up to minor criminality in a high-surveillance state. Bottom line: a hostile regime has both motive and means, and it now has partners and cash on American streets.
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