House GOP Probes US Billionaire Over Chinese Links & US Protests

House GOP probe Neville Sing­ham has been launched over sus­pect­ed Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Par­ty influ­ence oper­a­tions in the Unit­ed States. On June 13, 2025, the New York Post report­ed that House Repub­li­cans are inves­ti­gat­ing the Chica­go-born bil­lion­aire who lives in Shang­hai for alleged­ly fund­ing left-wing protest groups includ­ing those linked to anti-ICE riots in Los Ange­les, with law­mak­ers ask­ing Attor­ney Gen­er­al Pam Bon­di to deter­mine if he’s part of a broad­er CCP strat­e­gy. The arti­cle begins:

House Repub­li­cans launched an inves­ti­ga­tion Fri­day into a Chi­na-based bil­lion­aire pur­port­ed­ly back­ing left-wing protest groups in the US — includ­ing one linked to the anti-Immi­gra­tion and Cus­toms Enforce­ment (ICE) riots in Los Ange­les — and asked Attor­ney Gen­er­al Pam Bon­di to deter­mine whether he was part of a larg­er Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Par­ty influ­ence oper­a­tion. The reclu­sive Neville Sing­ham, who was born in Chica­go but lives with his activist wife, Jodie Evans, in Shang­hai, “may have act­ed as an agent for the CCP” through his sup­port of the demon­stra­tions, GOP mem­bers of the House Over­sight Com­mit­tee alleged in let­ters to the bil­lion­aire him­self as well as Bon­di that have been obtained by The Post. Over­sight Chair­man James Com­er (R‑Ky.) and Declas­si­fi­ca­tion Task­force Chair­woman Anna Pauli­na Luna (R‑Fla.), who has threat­ened to sub­poe­na Sing­ham if he refus­es to coop­er­ate with their inves­ti­ga­tion, drew atten­tion to the CCP’s self-described “Strat­e­gy of Sow­ing Dis­cord” in the letters.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2025/06/13/us-news/house-gop-launches-probe-of-china-based-billionaire-linked-to-protest-groups-including-anti-ice-agitators-in-la/

Key Points

• Repub­li­cans allege Sing­ham may be imple­ment­ing the CCP’s “Strat­e­gy of Sow­ing Dis­cord” to cre­ate inter­nal dis­putes and dis­tract Amer­i­ca from exter­nal conflicts.
• The inves­ti­ga­tion focus­es on Sing­ham’s ties to the Par­ty for Lib­er­a­tion and Social­ism, Peo­ple’s Forum, and ANSWER Coali­tion, which orga­nized anti-Israel demon­stra­tions nationwide.
• Sing­ham shares office space with the Maku Group, a CCP-pro­mot­ing pro­pa­gan­da net­work, with pho­tos show­ing young peo­ple under “Always Fol­low the Par­ty” ban­ners fea­tur­ing Xi Jinping.
• Dark-mon­ey non­prof­its con­nect­ed to Sing­ham, includ­ing the Unit­ed Com­mu­ni­ty Fund and Jus­tice Edu­ca­tion Fund, have bankrolled oper­a­tions pro­mot­ing pro-CCP talk­ing points through Break­Through Media.

CCP Influence: Exploiting Social Division with Chinese Tactics

The Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Par­ty (CCP) employs sophis­ti­cat­ed dig­i­tal and polit­i­cal strate­gies to exploit social divi­sions in tar­get coun­tries, aim­ing to shape pub­lic opin­ion and advance Beijing’s geopo­lit­i­cal inter­ests. In the Unit­ed States, the CCP’s influ­ence oper­a­tions focus on mobi­liz­ing Asian Amer­i­can com­mu­ni­ties by ampli­fy­ing griev­ances, while in regions like Oki­nawa, it deploys tar­get­ed “mal­in­for­ma­tion” cam­paigns to stoke local resent­ment, often facil­i­tat­ed by net­works of con­sular vol­un­teers who mon­i­tor dias­po­ra com­mu­ni­ties and pres­sure insti­tu­tions. These efforts are part of a broad­er strat­e­gy that lever­ages dias­po­ra orga­ni­za­tions, dig­i­tal plat­forms, and unit­ed front tac­tics to influ­ence for­eign soci­eties and sup­press dissent.

Recent research high­lights the CCP’s evolv­ing approach: while it once pri­or­i­tized pro­ject­ing a pos­i­tive image abroad, it now increas­ing­ly employs infil­tra­tion and coer­cion, draw­ing inspi­ra­tion from Russ­ian-style influ­ence oper­a­tions to tar­get dias­po­ras, media, and civ­il soci­ety. The CCP’s unit­ed front work has become more cen­tral­ized and aggres­sive under Xi Jin­ping, aim­ing to co-opt influ­en­tial indi­vid­u­als and groups across busi­ness, pol­i­tics, and acad­e­mia, and to sup­press any nar­ra­tives that chal­lenge par­ty authority.

Social media dis­in­for­ma­tion cam­paigns, while most devel­oped in Tai­wan, are part of a toolk­it that includes both overt and covert tac­tics to weak­en social cohe­sion and advance China’s interests.

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