I was listening to a news show the other night, and when it got to this part, I paused it, re-listened, and then set up so I could later transcribe it. Next morning, Mr. Spherical Model had seen the same news show, and when I told him a part had gotten my attention, he guessed it was this part. Let’s proceed before further comment.
The daily news broadcast is Crossroads, with Joshua Philipp, a production of The Epoch Times. This is from late Friday, August 21, 2020. CCP refers to Chinese Communist Party.
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| Joshua Philipp reporting on CCP role in US riots screenshot from here |
The Chinese regime may have played a hand in the mass
protests and the riots that have been sweeping across the United States. They’ve
allegedly identified and sent guidance to people who are aligned with Black
Lives Matter and the far-left radical organization Antifa. This is according to
a recent article by Radio Free Asia, which also noted the CCP’s actions
played a role in the US ordering the closure of the Chinese consulate in
Houston.
According to the story, the CCP had sent soldiers from the Second
Department of its General Staff Department to the Chinese consulate in Houston.
They were equipped with fake IDs as well. From there they used data from a large
video platform to identify people whose interests suggested that they may participate
in protests around Black Lives Matter and Antifa, and then created and sent
them customized videos on how to organize riots and how to spread their messages.
The story does not name the companies that were involved in the operations.
Now, this is interesting from a few different angles. When it
comes to the soldiers the CCP sent to the consulate, the General Staff Department
is the war fighting branch of the Chinese military. The Second Department, the
spy branch, operates alongside its Signals Intelligence Branch known for its
military hackers, which is a Third Department. You might remember those
individuals indicted during the Obama administration with unit 61398. Those
were Third Department.
Now, why were spies from the war fighting branch of China’s
military sent to the United States to stir up unrest?
It’s also interesting that soldiers from the CCP’s military
spy agency were sent to the United States with fake IDs. This may relate to the
recent announcement from US Customs and Border Protection that it seized close
to 20,000 fake IDs in Chicago and said the majority of them had arrived from
China.
When it comes to the CCP getting involved in the protests and
riots in the United States, it’s also interesting to note that Russia was found
to have done something very similar ahead of the US elections in 2016. And now
that we move on to the 2020 elections, this is a big deal in that context. This
is among the few points that were used as evidence of Russia meddling in the
elections. The Russian trolls were exposed for buying advertisements in
different social media platforms that promoted civil unrest.
And as Slate noted at the time, the findings emerged
that “Russian trolls were obsessed with Black Lives Matter.” Part of this ties
to long-running operations around ideological subversion. These were Soviet era
methods of demoralizing and destabilizing a country. Part of the idea was to
encourage and to accelerate what would have otherwise been grassroots unrest.
The CCP appears to have taken this even further, however, by
deploying soldiers on American soil, then using big data technology to identify
and target Americans directly, with their guidelines on how to organize riots.
In Shanghai, meanwhile, the personal information of more than
1.9 million Communist Party members was leaked. And The Epoch Times
received Excel files containing details on CCP members in Shanghai’s municipal
government institutions and businesses. The leaked records contain names,
birthplace, ID numbers, home addresses, and communication information of the
Shanghai members of the Chinese Communist Party. And Epoch Times was
able to confirm the legitimacy of these documents. The leaked list of party
members began to circulate online after the United States announced potential
visa restrictions on CCP members and their families. While the documents were
only leaked recently, it does appear they come from as early as July 2016.
And why does this matter? This adds to fear among CCP
officials, both of the discussions are on travel restrictions on CCP members,
and of the possibility that they could be hit by US sanctions for carrying out
abusive orders from the Chinese Communist Party.
Interesting.
This is the Radio Free Asia story referred to,
which I had Google translate for me: “The last straw that overwhelms the Houston Consulate.” Here’s a key statement:
According to reports, the Second Department of the General
Staff of the People’s Liberation Army recruited people from a major Internet
company, used false identities to go to the Houston consulate, used the
background data of a major audio-visual platform in the powerful country [China] to
assist BLM and ANTIFA, and sent "tailor-made" to African Americans. A
promotional video for the riot organization; in a word, it is to
"weaponize" big data.
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| Photo from Reuters profile, found here. |
The Epoch Times is more attuned to China news than
most outlets, and Joshua Philipp’s report in particular tends to cover China
news before other world news. But wasn’t this a huge story that ought to be
appearing elsewhere?
Earlier today I came across one other source. This is a
story by Texas writer Bryan Preston for PJ Media, “Did China’s Consulate in Houston Use TikTok to Stir Up Antifa BLM Riots?” He refers to the same Radio
Free Asia “ChinaScope” story, and observes this:
If this ChinaScope report is true, and the Houston Chinese
consulate was the hub of unrest via TikTok, it makes sense of the recent events
noted above. It also makes some sense of the riots themselves. Antifa got its
start as the communists’ street fighters in
Weimar Germany. Black Lives Matters’ leaders have openly stated they are trained
Marxists. The strongest communist regime on earth today is
the one in Beijing under its most authoritarian leader in decades, Xi Jinping.
The rioters’ goal is not any particular policy outcome, but to subvert and
weaken America. Destroying our cities, defunding law enforcement, agitating
against ICE, and dividing America along racial lines all support the goal of
weakening the United States, which happens to be China’s long-term foreign
policy goal.
The part of the story that is not new related to TikTok, and
Thousand Talents, a CCP effort to infiltrate and subvert US science and medical
research. It related to the spying coming out of China's recently closed Houston consulate, among
other consulates to be closed. Preston says this:
That talent plan
is Thousand Talents, a large and
sprawling effort on the part of the Chinese Communist Party to
subvert top-level researchers in the United States and across the free world in
a variety of key fields and buy their research, which is turned over to the People’s
Liberation Army. That’s China’s ironically named military, which liberates no
one, threatens its own citizens, and helps maintain the communists’ police
state. Thousand Talents has been uncovered and several arrests have been made
this year, including the high-profile arrest of
Dr. Charles Lieber of Harvard. Lieber is one of the world’s top nanoscientists.
The Department of Justice accuses him of
secretly working for the communists in Beijing via the Wuhan University of
Technology.
Someone passed along a video to me today, of a dad in
California, whose child’s school lesson on day 4 was pro-Black Lives Matter,
under the pretense of teaching against racism, which he got to see because they're doing distance learning. (This propaganda to kids is yet another reason to homeschool.)
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| Screenshot (flipped) from here |
I was curious about that raised fist symbol, which I remember as a black power symbol over many decades. According to Wikipedia,
The black fist, also known as
the Black Power fist is a logo generally
associated with Black nationalism, defiance, solidarity, and socialism. Its most widely known usage is by
the Black
Panther Party, a
socialist group, in the 1960s.
Wikipedia also informs us,
Different movements sometimes use
different terms to describe the raised fist salute: amongst communists and socialists, raised right fist
is sometimes called the red salute, whereas amongst some African-American
activists, especially in the United States it has been called the Black Power salute. The Rotfrontkämpferbund paramilitary organization of Communist
Party of Germany used
the right hand fist salute as early as 1924.
Different organizations may add elements to use it for their
purposes. One example is the hammer and sickle being combined with it, used as part of communist
symbolism.
Interestingly, the raised fist is also used by officials in China
when being sworn into office.
The symbolism is just another clue. These are the same forces
fighting a war against our liberty for a very long time.
Black Lives Matter is Marxist. (And, I might as well add, so is Antifa, which is about as anti-fascist as Nazi Germany of the 1930s-1940s was.) BLM has been open about that on their website, and their founders brag of being “trained Marxists.” Who trains a Marxist? Somebody already steeped in that philosophy. Rumors have flown about George Soros funding. I wouldn’t discount that; he’s definitely an authoritarian, and a Marxist, with a stated intention of bringing down the United States, as well as other countries.
Another possibility is Russia. They’ve worked against the US
since—well, probably since they became Marxist at the inception of the Soviet
Union. But they’ve been weakened recently. And even in 2016 their efforts were a
relatively minor continuation of ongoing disinformation practices.
Then there’s China—the largest and most threatening Marxist
regime on the planet. We have a president who has stood up to them, and the US
is both their biggest rival economically and philosophically. That is, the real
America, with a constitution that is antithetical in every way to Marxist
authoritarian rule. Wouldn’t it be in their interest to attempt to get the US
to collapse from within?
Preston ends with this:
This report, if true, connects several dots and casts the
riots of the past few months in a new light. It’s an effort on the part of a
hostile regime to weaken our nation’s integrity. Its leaders and operators on
U.S. soil are, knowingly or not, doing the bidding of a hostile foreign
government.
To summarize, for clarity, the Chinese government has been
conducting a war against the United States. At this point it is a cold war,
rather than a full-on hot one, but a war nevertheless. They have put their military on
US soil. And they have been targeting Americans to recruit to the anti-American
side.
The protests you are seeing—the supposed peaceful ones,
where it’s just about speaking out against racism—those are a propaganda movement. Those attending
have been targeted through social media to have their opinions manipulated;
their news has been controlled so they don’t see another side. What ought to be a reliable US media has been willfully complicit.
And what about the riots—the actual violence against
property and people, such as has been going on for 13 weeks and counting in
Portland, as well as elsewhere around the country? A few rioters might be opportunists. But mainly those are people targeted,
recruited, and trained by our enemy, a Marxist authoritarian regime, in league
with other Marxists around the world, intent on the overthrow of our Constitution
and the subjugation of free American people.
Next time someone insists that you have to support Black
Lives Matter or you’re a racist—let them know that you know the truth. If they’re
really about making America better, they’ll hear you. If they won’t hear you, they’re
among those targeted and recruited by our deadliest enemy.
Do you give up on such a person? It depends on how much you
love and care about that individual, and how much energy you can devote to
deprogramming them while we’re in a war in defense of our liberty, our lands,
our families, and our religion[i].
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