A network of pro-China organizations funded by Shanghai-based tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham is staging a week of coordinated anti-US protests across the United States, from New York City to Austin, Texas, as President Donald Trump prepares for high-stakes negotiations with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Lawmakers warn that the demonstrations create an image of rolling street unrest that China can exploit to project a perception of chaos in the United States and gain a messaging advantage in the talks.
The protests are publicly framed as separate events addressing immigration, climate change, artificial intelligence, militarism, and Israel. But their shared sponsorships reveal how organizations within the broader Singham network move quickly from one issue to another, using national organizations, local chapters, social-media promotion, and shared venues to create a cumulative impression of coordinated street activism. Yesterday, Singham’s wife, Jodie Evans, wore a trademark fuchsia straw hat and protested across the street from the United Nations on E. 47th Street in Manhattan, smiling next to agitators from the far-left CodePink nonprofit she co-founded. The activists railed against the U.S. military and its «all-out climate and environmental devastation,» then marched to the offices of OpenAI to demonstrate against data centers they allege «drive war» and «economic degradation.»
Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, told Fox News Digital that the American people need to know this is not just an organic movement. «There has to be more transparency across all areas with these kinds of activities,» he said. Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Mich., chairman of the House Select Committee on China, said the network’s grassroots image belies the serious funding infrastructure behind these groups. «In these situations where you have groups that portray themselves as grassroots, it's really more Astroturf, very fake,» he said. Moolenaar added that the protests «raise serious concerns» about malign foreign influence in the U.S., especially «when you see them actively speaking out against American interests.» He called for «clarification and transparency» regarding the organizations’ finances and questioned whether they should continue receiving tax-exempt status, adding that their political involvement may violate «campaign rules and political rules here in the United States.»
The significance of the week’s activity is heightened by the scale of Singham’s financial support. A Fox News Digital investigation has documented how Singham has pumped $285 million through a donor-advised fund and shell companies into a broader network of six major nonprofits, media outlets, and activist organizations that have promoted anti-American and pro-China messaging. In that network, Singham has given CodePink $1.33 million, while doling out $22.44 million to the People’s Forum, a hub for the protest activity this week, and $1.098 million to BreakThrough BT Media, a media arm of the network that is flooding social media with images and videos from the coordinated protests. As Fox News Digital reported exclusively, the Justice Department’s Southern District of New York has convened a federal grand jury investigation into Singham’s financial network, according to sources. Prosecutors are examining whether Singham, the organizations he funded, or their leaders engaged in alleged wire fraud, bank fraud, or money laundering. Singham hasn’t been charged with a crime, and the investigation doesn’t establish that he personally directed each protest. Singham, the People’s Forum, CodePink, and BreakThrough News haven’t responded to repeated requests for comment.
The sequence began Sunday night in Austin, where socialist and communist organizations rapidly promoted an anti-ICE protest after the shooting of Venezuelan national Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez. The Democratic Socialists of America, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, and Party for Socialism and Liberation amplified calls for demonstrators to gather at 8121 Research Blvd. in Austin. Although media accounts described the protest as organic, the mobilization moved through an existing national activist infrastructure. The Singham network’s Party for Socialism and Liberation and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization circulated video and protest messaging, while Democratic Socialists of America promoted the gathering as «spontaneous.»
The week’s protests reflect a pattern of rapid mobilization around breaking news and political flashpoints. The sequencing of events — combined with messaging sharply critical of the United States and silent about China’s human-rights, environmental, and civil-liberties record — raises questions lawmakers debated last week about whether some activists function as «Trojan horses» for foreign adversaries such as China. Recently, Evans posted a video lauding China for building an economy that helps citizens «grow and thrive.» Last year, Singham delivered a speech in China supporting the Chinese Communist Party and Xi’s «new world order.» Lawmakers have warned that the cumulative visibility of such actions shapes public perceptions, projects an image of instability, and gives foreign adversaries a potential messaging and negotiating advantage as Trump prepares for high-stakes talks with Xi this week.