Is China backing the Antifa\/#BlackLivesMatters riots in America?<\/p>\n
In some cases, the answer appears to be yes<\/a>:<\/p>\n The CPA was founded in San Francisco in 1972 during the heady days of the Marxist-oriented Asian American Movement, and today it also has a very active chapter in Boston. From its start, it has been a promoter of the People\u2019s Republic of China.<\/p>\n According to an authoritative 2009 Stanford University paper tracing its early days to the present, and which can be found on Marxist.org, \u201cThe CPA began as a Leftist, pro-People\u2019s Republic of China organization, promoting awareness of mainland China\u2019s revolutionary thought and workers\u2019 rights, and dedicated to self-determination, community control, and \u2018serving the people.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n The CPA, continued the paper, \u201cworked with other pro-PRC groups within the U.S. and San Francisco Bay Area \u2026 Support for the PRC was based on the inspiration the members drew from what they saw as a successful grassroots model that presented a viable alternative to Western capitalism.\u201d<\/p>\n One of the ways it did this was by holding \u201cfilm screenings that were open to the public, sometimes showing Chinese films as well to facilitate understanding of the country\u2019s revolutionary ideas. \u2026 CPA also took the lead with groups such as the U.S.-China People\u2019s Friendship Organization to celebrate China\u2019s National Day on Oct. 1\u201d.<\/p>\n To this day, the CPA continues to be a partner of the PRC in the United States. Three years ago, the Boston chapter teamed up with China\u2019s Consulate General in New York to offer Chinese nationals the opportunity to renew their passports, getting praise from China\u2019s official mouthpiece, China Daily.<\/p>\n Last year, the CPA sponsored the raising of the PRC\u2019s flag for the first time ever over Boston\u2019s City Hall to honor the takeover of China by the Chinese Communist Party, just as the Stanford paper says has been its practice from the beginning, but this time drawing protesters. The event was organized, again, with the Chinese Consulate. Consul General Sun Guoxiang was on hand to say that, \u201cThe common interests are far more important than differences between U.S. and China.\u201d<\/p>\n CPA co-founder Lydia Lowe also spoke at the event, reminding her audience that \u201cMcCarthyism is behind us. The Cold War is behind us.\u201d In an essay she authored with other people on the Marxist revolutionary site LeftRoots last year, Lowe sounded as though she wanted to start another Cold War, writing that she wanted Asians to play a role in creating a \u201crevolutionary strategy\u201d that would achieve a \u201cfundamentally different society.\u201d<\/p>\n And CPA drew praise from China\u2019s mouthpiece China Daily just a few weeks ago, for taking part again in Black Lives Matter demonstrations in San Francisco.<\/p>\n It is clear, then, that CPA works with China\u2019s communist government, pushes its agenda here in the United States, and is regularly praised by China\u2019s state-owned mouthpieces. It is clear, too, from, this perspective, why the CPA would sponsor a new enterprise by BLM founder Alicia Garza: they espouse the same desire for world communism.<\/p>\n Garza sits atop a worldwide revolutionary empire, starting with the Black Lives Matter Global Network she founded, which now has 15 chapters in the U.S. and several more all over Canada, Australia, and Europe. As Foreign Affairs wrote in its September\/October issue, \u201cToday, BLM has a global network of dozens of chapters. This number will likely grow exponentially in the coming years.\u201d<\/p>\n Garza is also behind the Movement for Black Lives, with its 50 domestic organizations. In July she said, \u201cWe helped to also pull together an ecosystem that was much broader than the organization that we founded, and that ecosystem is called the Movement for Black Lives and it is taking the world by storm.\u201d<\/p>\n Movement for Black Lives is unabashedly anti-capitalist, saying on its website, \u201cwe are anti-capitalist. We believe and understand that Black people will never achieve liberation under the current global racialized capitalist system.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n All of which has been covered here before<\/a>. <\/p>\n Some other data points:<\/p>\n Since protests erupted after George Floyd, an African American, died in police custody on May 25 in the U.S. state of Minnesota, the Black Lives Matter movement has drawn international headlines for its push to address systemic racism in America. <\/p>\n Chinese officials have also championed the movement, seeing it as a way to criticize the United States for its track record on human rights issues after months of scrutiny over Beijing’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. <\/p>\n “Racial discrimination is a long-lasting problem in the United States,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian in June. “Black lives matter and their human rights should be guaranteed.” <\/p>\n Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying tweeted “I can’t breathe,” a reference to George Floyd’s last words, as her response to U.S. State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus’ criticism of Beijing’s Hong Kong policy. <\/p>\n Xinhua, the state-backed media outlet, claimed in a report that “the United States is in pain, anger and the widest unrest for decades over racial injustice,” adding African Americans have suffered disproportionately high death rates from the COVID-19 outbreak. <\/p>\n Chinese media have heavily covered the protests and unrest in American cities, painting them as a failure of the country’s democratic system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It wouldn’t surprise me if Chinese media paid more attention to the riots in Portland and Seattle than America’s own “mainstream” media. <\/p>\n According to Asia analyst Gordon Chang, the Chinese consulate in Houston, recently ordered closed by the state department, may have been clandestinely supporting various protest groups in the United States with the goal of stoking racial violence.<\/p>\n Chinese consulates across the country have come under renewed scrutiny in recent months as several high-profile hacking jobs targeting Americans were exposed. Just recently, two college-age hackers were arrested by the FBI and charged with several cybercrimes.<\/p>\n The Chinese consulates in America have become nests of spies and saboteurs, so it shouldn\u2019t surprise us that they are carrying out directives of the Chinese Communist government to weaken and divide America by stirring the pot of racial division.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n zthe goal of the Cultural Revolution was to eliminate what Mao called the \u201cFour Olds.\u201d The four olds were Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits and Old Ideas\u2014everything that pre-dated communism in China. Mao saw them as a threat to his communist rule, so he unleashed the Red Guards to eliminate them. The Four Olds had to be replaced with new customs, new culture, new habits and new ideas\u2014communist customs, communist culture, communist habits and communist ideas.<\/p>\n The Red Guards didn\u2019t start out by killing people and destroying property. They started out with intimidation to back up Mao\u2019s cultural revolution to change place names, especially street names. People even changed their own names so as to break with any association with the Four Olds.<\/p>\n The movement escalated from there. Anyone who seemed to cling to any of the Four Olds was harassed and intimidated. Property damage was next. Examples of old Chinese architecture began to be targeted for destruction by Red Guard mobs. Chinese literature books were seized by the Red Guard and burned. Artwork was destroyed by gangs of thugs who would go into homes to search for anything considered Old. The Red Guards ransacked homes of those who were not considered reliable supporters of the communist party. Ancient, sacred Chinese temples were destroyed. Cemeteries were desecrated and corpses were even dug up and torn apart. Monuments were taken down.<\/p>\n Does any of this sound familiar to you?<\/p>\n I\u2019m sure it does. And that\u2019s not surprising.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Here\u2019s what years of intelligence collection by the FBI and other parts of the intelligence community have long determined: China and Russia know they cannot defeat the United States militarily or economically. Yet, the elimination of the U.S. as a superpower that impedes their communist vision remains their goal. <\/p>\n Both China, which has thieved its way to faux prosperity, and Russia, with its perpetual inferiority complex fueling its tiresome resentments, have pinned their hopes on dividing Americans, on pitting us against each other as a means of breaking a unified national will and rendering us dispirited, unable or unwilling to respond to their future hegemonies. And disinformation campaigns accentuating America\u2019s faults historically have been a favored strategy, particularly by Russia.<\/p>\n Both of those countries are well aware that the most convenient way to divide Americans is along racial lines, since the United States is orders of magnitude more racially diverse than any nation on earth. Americans are hyper-sensitized to charges of racism because ours has been a long struggle to create a country where an unprecedented collision of races, creeds and cultures could coexist under an ideal of individual liberty. Given mankind\u2019s history, it\u2019s a miracle we\u2019ve had any success at all.<\/p>\n And so, accusations of racism in our country are a damning cudgel, an effective wedge to both arouse suspicions and chill dissent. There is no greater shame today than to stand accused of committing the mortal sin of racism.<\/p>\n That is why we are seeing an expansion of the definition of racism and \u201chate speech\u201d by a class of accusers who really don\u2019t have racial justice as their primary goal. Charges of racism have become the most effective way to eliminate resistance and to censor or cancel voices opposed to a totalitarian worldview. <\/p>\n Accordingly, racism now ostensibly exists in the packaging of products, in tweets about the national anthem, and in how images of Jesus are depicted. The Smithsonian Institution recently asserted that evidence of racism is found in traditional values, such as delayed gratification and the nuclear family. If that\u2019s true, then, yes, racism is surely systemic \u2014 it\u2019s in the very air we breathe. But it is not true. It is a lie told by those who want us to believe that America is broken and needs to be replaced.<\/p>\n Who are these people who have wrested away legitimate racial justice narratives in order to advance their own agenda? They are the discredited remnants of failed economic Marxism who have pivoted to a vision of cultural Marxism that no less subjugates the rights and freedoms of individuals to control by the state. They have scurried from the wreckage of pure communist ideology into academia and various media, powerful platforms to indoctrinate minds and control narratives.<\/p>\n Their young proxies are the radical or anarchist interlopers such as antifa, surfing on the backs of actual racial justice protesters. These black-clad, masked marauders of the far left showed up to suck media attention from legitimate protesters by starting fires, destroying businesses and attacking police. Their demographics are readily noticeable: young, mostly white, many from privileged suburban families and fresh from college campuses that filled their minds with false tales of totalitarian nirvana. After exercising their destruction, they Uber back to their own safe neighborhoods, far from the ones they just helped destroy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n None of this is conclusive proof that China created antifa\/#BlackLivesMatter, or that China is the only<\/i> backer of it (George Soros’ financial backing is well-documented<\/a>), or even the only foreign<\/i> backer, but the fact that a hostile foreign Communist government is backing a hostile, violent Communist movement in America would seem to be important news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Is China backing the Antifa\/#BlackLivesMatters riots in America? 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