(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) Code Pink, the left-wing activist organization perhaps best known for showy disruptions of congressional hearings, is now allegedly cheerleading for China, despite that country’s disdain for fundamental civil liberties.
The nonprofit Code Pink group describes itself, in part, as “a feminist grassroots organization working to end U.S. warfare and imperialism, support peace and human rights initiatives…”
Code Pink is apparently now okay, however, with the imperialism and human right abuses perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party.
In an expose, the far-left New York Times, interestingly enough, revealed how a Shanghai-based U.S. millionaire tech mogul, along with his bank account, allegedly function as the conduit between Code Pink and pro-China propaganda.
That magnate, Neville Roy Singham, “known as a socialist benefactor of far-left causes,” married Code Pink co-founder and ex-Democrat operative Jodie Evans in 2017, the Times reported, which seems to be a year with significance.
“What is less known, and is hidden amid a tangle of nonprofit groups and shell companies, is that Mr. Singham works closely with the Chinese government media machine and is financing its propaganda worldwide,” the Times explained.
“Since 2017, about a quarter of Code Pink’s donations — more than $1.4 million — have come from two groups linked to Mr. Singham, nonprofit records show,” the news outlet asserted.
Code Pink founder Evans “has organized around progressive causes like climate change, gender and racism. Until a few years ago, she readily criticized China’s authoritarian government,” but the script has since flipped, the Times insinuated.
“Ms. Evans now stridently supports China. She casts it as a defender of the oppressed and a model for economic growth without slavery or war.”
Perhaps following her lead, Code Pink itself backs the policies of China’s CCP-controlled government.
“Code Pink once criticized China’s rights record but now defends its internment of the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs, which human rights experts have labeled a crime against humanity,” the Times indicated in its report.
Singham, “who “has long admired Maosim,” denies that he works with China or any other government. Evans similarly denied following the direction of any government, political party, or even her husband.
The Trump era, in particular, has brought into focus the degree to which elements of the public, private and nonprofit sectors in the West have allowed themselves to be corrupted by China cash.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R – Fla., has called upon the Justice Department to launch an investigation into Singham’s purported linkage to nine different organizations, including Code Pink, that allegedly are under the sway of the CCP, activity which he says potentially violates the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Reacting to the Times article, Cornell University Law Professor William Jacobson, the proprietor of the Legal Insurrection website, implied that the China connection is hardly the first time that Code Pink has engaged in hypocritical virtue signaling.
“While preaching peace Code Pink has embraced anti-western warmongers in all forms, from Palestinian terrorists to the Mullah regime and now the Chinese Communist Party.”
He added that “It’s good that Code Pink has been revealed for the ‘peace’ fraud it always has been. They are not for peace, and they never have been.”
Jacobson concluded that “Perhaps most important, it’s becoming even more clear how much of the western leftist activism is funded by and influenced by China to undermine our society.”
