As President Donald Trump readies for high-stakes negotiations with Chinese President Xi Jinping, a network of pro-China organizations funded by pro-communist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham is taking to the streets from New York City to Austin, creating the image of rolling street unrest that lawmakers warn China can exploit to project a perception of chaos in the United States.

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, between First and Second Avenue, under an arch at Katharine Hepburn Garden, smiling widely next to agitators from the far-left CodePink nonprofit she co-founded and her American-born husband helped fund from his base in Shanghai. As part of their elaborate weeklong calendar, the activists railed against the U.S. military and its «all-out climate and environmental devastation.» and then they marched to the offices of Open AI to demonstrate against data centers they allege «drive war» and «economic degradation.»

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.»

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Lawmakers have warned that the cumulative visibility of such actions shape public perceptions, project an image of instability and give foreign adversaries a potential messaging – and negotiating – advantage as Trump prepares for high-stakes talks with Xi this week.

«The American people need to know that this is not just an organic movement,» Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, told Digital. «There has to be more transparency across all areas with these kinds of activities.»

Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Mich., chairman of the House Select Committee on China, told Digital 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.

He said the protests «raises serious concerns» about malign foreign influence in the U.S., especially «when you see them actively speaking out against American interests.»

The protests are publicly framed as separate events involving immigration, climate change, artificial intelligence, militarism and Israel. But their shared sponsorships show 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.

Moolenaar 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.»

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The significance of the week’s activity is heightened by the scale of Singham’s financial support for the network. A 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 this week.

As Digital reported exclusively, the Justice Department’s Southern District of New York has convened a federal grand jury investigation into Singham’s financial network, sources say. Prosecutors are examining whether Singham, the organizations he funded or their leaders engaged in alleged wire fraud, bank fraud or money laundering, according to sources. 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» and called supporters to the streets. The protest later spread beyond Austin, with activists in Pearsall, Tex., pledging to put «boots on the ground.»

In response to reporting on the protests, the Party for Socialism and Liberation published a video with an activist «rejecting» criticism of its Austin protests as a «nefarious» coordinated event and called the protests the result of «righteous anger.»

The Party for Socialism and Liberation, Democratic Socialists of America and Freedom Road Socialist Organization didn’t respond to requests for comment.

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On Monday, the network’s actions moved to New York City, where Singham’s wife, Evans, and her cadre of CodePink activists began a week of demonstrations tied to Climate Week and the United Nations. CodePink co-founder Susan Medea Benjamin has led previous protests, including demonstrations supporting China.

After the environmental activism led by Evans outside the UN, CodePink agitators joined an «Unplug OpenAI» protest outside OpenAI’s offices on Lafayette Street, linking artificial-intelligence data centers to the «military-industrial complex.» The group’s weeklong schedule promised «disruptions» and «bird-dogging,» a tactic in which seemingly regular people plant themselves in restaurants, conferences and other events to heckle and harass public officials and even ordinary citizens, peppering them with questions and shaming rhetoric without any real interest in a dialogue.

Early Tuesday, CodePink celebrated its «fearless cofounder» Evan’s birthday with an Instagram collage of photos from her decades of activism, including the image of a smiling Evans in her pink straw hat, standing beside fuchsia balloons from a campaign called «China Is Not Our Enemy» that the group launched after receiving the donations from Singham. Another photo included her beaming smile next to controversial Marxist influencer Hasan Piker, as the two joined a caravan to support the Communist Party of Cuba.

Later in the day, CodePink activists moved their campaign inside the People’s Forum, a Manhattan hub for communist organizing for a screening of a film, «Earth’s Greatest Enemy,» by a fiercely anti-U.S. film company, Watermelon Pictures, chronicling the U.S. military as «one of the most significant drivers of environmental destruction,» the «world’s largest institutional polluter.»

Back in Austin, a short while later at about 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time, the Singham network’s BreakThrough News propaganda network posted edited video clips from the Austin protests, headlined: «SECOND DAY OF PROTESTS IN AUSTIN AFTER ICE SHOOTS VENEZUELAN DELIVERY DRIVER.»

For Wednesday, Evans and CodePink promise more protests against the U.S. military’s «role in climate issues.»

On Thursday, as Xi meets with Trump in the White House, the People’s Forum, CodePink, the Palestinian Youth Movement and other groups in the Singham network are hitting the streets to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In social media posts, the groups are advertising a Thursday march from Bryant Park to the United Nations, calling on New Yorkers to «reject war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu and the genocidal Zionist project.»

That day, Evans and CodePink also plans to participate in a teach-in on «War & Climate: What U.S. Imperialism Demands of Our Climate Justice Movements» before joining the anti-Israel agitation. Organizers are lashing out against the «genocide» in Gaza and blasting «ecocide.»

By Friday, as Xi readies to leave town, the protests will go full circle back to Austin, with the Singham network’s Party for Socialism and Liberation planning a protest at 6 p.m. at City Hall with the simple message: «Now is the time for us all to be brave, to follow the example of Minneapolis earlier this year, and TAKE TO THE STREETS!»

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El primer ministro del Reino Unido, Andy Burnham, reafirmó este martes la posición británica sobre las Islas Malvinas durante su discurso ante la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas y aseguró que su gobierno defenderá los derechos de los territorios británicos de ultramar frente a cualquier amenaza.

“Nos mantendremos firmes ante cualquier amenaza y desafío a la supremacía de la ley, no solo de Rusia, sino también de otros, incluido donde amenacen los derechos de los territorios británicos a permanecer británicos, como las Islas Falkland”, afirmó Burnham ante los líderes mundiales reunidos en Nueva York.

En otra parte de su discurso, Burnham hizo especial hincapié en los desafíos de seguridad que enfrenta el Reino Unido y sus aliados. En ese contexto, anticipó que su gobierno seguirá destinando recursos a la defensa, aunque aclaró que no busca la confrontación.

Al referirse a la guerra en Ucrania, el primer ministro sostuvo que el Reino Unido continuará fortaleciendo su capacidad de disuasión. “Trabajaremos incesantemente para construir nuestro poder duro, nuestra disuasión, pero no jugaremos el juego de Rusia”, afirmó, y remarcó su respaldo a Kiev.

Burnham insistió en que Londres debe estar preparado frente a posibles amenazas, pero sin abandonar una posición prudente. “A diferencia de Rusia, no buscamos la confrontación, al contrario, estaremos preparados, pero no tendremos miedo, con los ojos abiertos pero la cabeza fría. No flaquearemos en defender a nuestro pueblo y a nuestros aliados”, expresó.

La mención a las Malvinas se produce en el contexto de una creciente tensión diplomática entre Londres y Buenos Aires por la explotación de recursos naturales en el archipiélago y pocas horas después de una reunión entre Burnham y el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump.

El encuentro entre ambos mandatarios tuvo lugar al margen de la Asamblea General de la ONU. Tras la reunión, Trump aseguró que las relaciones entre Washington y Londres están “mejorando”, mientras que Burnham confirmó que conversaron sobre comercio y sobre cuestiones vinculadas con las Islas Malvinas.

Las declaraciones del jefe de gobierno británico llegan además luego de que la administración de las islas decidiera prorrogar por cinco años todas las licencias vigentes para actividades petroleras offshore, una medida respaldada por el Reino Unido y cuestionada por el Gobierno argentino.

La decisión busca garantizar la continuidad de los proyectos de exploración y explotación de hidrocarburos en las aguas que rodean al archipiélago. Entre ellos se destaca Sea Lion, el emprendimiento liderado por las compañías Navitas Petroleum y Rockhopper Exploration, que prevén iniciar la producción de petróleo en 2028.

La medida fue interpretada en Buenos Aires como una profundización de las acciones unilaterales en un territorio cuya soberanía permanece en disputa. En las últimas semanas, el Gobierno de Javier Milei impulsó denuncias penales y procedimientos administrativos contra empresas vinculadas con la explotación de recursos en las islas sin autorización argentina.

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While Americans brace for a futuristic AI war of killer robots and bioweapons, experts warn ahead of President Xi Jinping’s U.S. visit this week that Beijing is already actively undermining America’s global supremacy through AI without ever firing a shot.

Experts who spoke with Digital outlined a stealthy, three-part playbook, which includes extracting the logic of American models, undercutting U.S. developers with free open-source software, and ultimately weaponizing those systems for things like cognitive warfare. They laid out how China bypasses billions of dollars in U.S. research through labs that interrogate cutting-edge American AI and copy its capabilities, while simultaneously flooding the global market with free alternatives.

«I think a ‘race’ is the wrong metaphor for this,» Leah Siskind, an AI research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Digital. «I think it’s kind of like a multi-front war. And in some places, we’re winning and some places we’re losing.»

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While top American tech firms have poured billions into building ultra-expensive, proprietary systems, China has focused heavily on distributing free, open-source models across the globe. Siskind warned that because American tech is costly and the U.S. sector has largely neglected open-source investment, many Fortune 500 companies are making the financial choice to run their operations on Chinese models—unwittingly opening the door to potential CCP censorship, hidden backdoors and, ultimately, global dominance.

«How can you compete with something that’s free when American tech is very, very expensive?» Siskind said. «How can we ensure that a Chinese open-source model would be truly clean, that it’d be truly free of CCP censorship? We can’t be—we just wouldn’t know. And that’s by design. We wouldn’t know what sort of trick backdoors might be implanted and how that could rear its head later on.»

Meanwhile, China expert Gordon Chang warned that Beijing is intentionally using these free models to repeat an economic tactic it previously deployed to corner a different industry.

«This is a tactic that China used with solar panels,» Chang told Digital. «Beijing sees that one day it will drive out the American models on cost and availability, and they will then dominate global AI.»

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But to flood the market with free software, Beijing first needs the underlying technology—and a way to bypass America’s massive lead in computing power.

Chang noted that the U.S. possesses a commanding lead in physical infrastructure, boasting over 5,400 data centers compared to China’s roughly 450, along with far superior microchips. To work around the staggering hardware and energy costs required to train artificial intelligence from scratch, Siskind warned that Chinese labs are closing the gap through a process known as «knowledge distillation»—a method where a smaller model essentially interrogates a larger, smarter American model to copy its logic.

«They are able to leapfrog the process by kind of stealing this information,» Siskind said, pointing to the Chinese model DeepSeek as a prime example. «This is how they were able to release models like DeepSeek in 2025, which was seismic news because they were able to show that they were really competing with cutting-edge American models and had invested a fraction of the resources.»

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The threat is not theoretical. Just last week, the Department of Homeland Security issued a joint cybersecurity advisory warning that Chinese companies are conducting «industrial-scale knowledge distillation campaigns» to extract proprietary capabilities from U.S. frontier models.

Beyond economic undercutting and software theft, the experts also warned Beijing is simultaneously deploying artificial intelligence into physical supply chains and public influence campaigns.

Rather than sci-fi «killer robots,» Siskind emphasized that China’s immediate physical priority is «embodied AI»—embedding artificial intelligence into real-world infrastructure like factory automation, commercial drones, and autonomous supply chains. Meanwhile, Chang warned that AI-enhanced propaganda poses a direct threat to American decision-making and democratic sovereignty.

«They’re very good at cognitive warfare, and they can enhance their capabilities with artificial intelligence,» Chang said. «We do not want our elections determined in China. We do not want our critical national security decisions being made in Beijing. And that’s not impossible.»

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As President Xi Jinping arrives in the U.S. this week, the experts who spoke to Digital said the White House must treat these non-cinematic threats with the same urgency as traditional military posturing.

To protect America’s remaining edge, Siskind said Washington must tighten chip export loopholes, blacklist foreign labs engaging in deceptive distillation, and incentivize U.S. open-source development—emphasizing that «it is very important that the most advanced systems are developed under democracy and represent democratic values, as opposed to authoritarian values.»

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For Chang, the stakes of that technological defense extend far beyond standard economic competition.

«Xi Jinping throughout this century has been pushing the Chinese imperial-era notion of Tianxia, or ‘all under heaven’—that China’s rulers have a right to rule the world,» Chang warned. «That sounds ludicrous to us, but a Chinese regime powered by AI might actually be able to accomplish that. We certainly do not want our decisions being made in the Chinese capital.»

Addressing the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, President Donald Trump reiterated Washington’s goal of outpacing China, declaring that U.S. government documents will now refer to AI as «superintelligence.»

«The United States totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control the artificial intelligence being spoken of,» Trump told world leaders. «Whoever wins superintelligence wins. And we’re leading now over China by a lot and everyone else. And we’re going to keep it that way.»

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