The Washington Post’s witch hunt on Chinese Americans

A recent Washington Post article ran under the headline “How China extended its repression into an American city.”

In the September 6, 2024 piece, the Post alleges that during the 2023 APEC summit in San Francisco, Chinese American community groups and leaders welcoming Chinese President Xi Jinping, reputedly under the direction of the Communist Party of China (CPC), violently attacked anti-China groups who turned out to protest Xi”s visit.

This, the Post states, was all part of a Chinese governmental shadowy plot of transnational repression, directing those within “diaspora groups” to quash dissident anti-China voices overseas. But the exact opposite is true.

In fact, it is the billionaire-owned Washington Post that is quashing the free speech of ordinary Americans in support of the Washington establishment’s dangerous new Cold War agenda.

What really happened

Let’s examine what really occurred during the APEC summit, the funding sources behind anti-China groups like the Hong Kong Democracy Council and Students for a Free Tibet named in the article, and the Post’s unprecedented use of facial recognition technology to identify and target leaders in the Chinese American community.

As an eyewitness to a confrontation between the Xi welcomers and the anti-China groups, I saw the exact opposite of what the Washington Post is alleging. The anti-China protestors were the most organized and highly trained group I have ever seen.

All these photos and videos that they produced? We did nothing to them, but they charged into our lines, threatened us and created chaos. Then, at the peak of the confrontation, they started filming on their smartphones and narrating as they did so, lying outright and falsely claiming that we