{"id":1993443,"date":"2023-08-07T17:33:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T21:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/code-pink-used-to-criticize-china-on-human-rights-then-its-founder-married-a-propagandist-for-the-regime\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T17:33:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T21:33:53","slug":"code-pink-used-to-criticize-china-on-human-rights-then-its-founder-married-a-propagandist-for-the-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/code-pink-used-to-criticize-china-on-human-rights-then-its-founder-married-a-propagandist-for-the-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"Code Pink once condemned China&#8217;s human rights record, but its founder later wed a regime propagandist."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcode-pink-used-to-criticize-china-on-human-rights-then-its-founder-married-a-propagandist-for-the-regime%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1993443&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>The Hypocrisy of Code Pink Founder \u200cand Her Pro-China Turn<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The\u200b founder of the left-wing group Code Pink, whose members are best known for screaming, yelling, \u200band waving signs to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/code-pink-used-to-criticize-china-on-human-rights-then-its-founder-married-a-propagandist-for-the-regime\/\" title=\"Code Pink once condemned China's human rights record, but its founder later wed a regime propagandist.\">disrupt congressional hearings<\/a>, once criticized China&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressional-measure-calls-out-pharmaceutical-industrys-reliance-on-china\/\" title=\"Congressional Measure Calls Out Pharmaceutical Industry\u2019s Reliance on China\">oppressive communist regime<\/a>. \u2062That was \u200bbefore she married socialist millionaire Neville Roy Singham.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2015, Code Pink founder \u200cand former Democratic\u2063 adviser Jodie\u200c Evans\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230802171614\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/MsJodieEvans\/status\/585319629200953344?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> her group \u2064demands that &#8220;China stop brutal repression of their women&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/belarusian-authorities-raid-homes-and-offices-of-journalists-and-activists\/\" title=\"Belarusian Authorities Raid Homes And Offices Of Journalists And Activists\">human rights defenders<\/a>&#8221; and posted a photo with\u2062 a Chinese dissident,\u200b according to a damning <i>New York \u2063Times<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/05\/world\/europe\/neville-roy-singham-china-propaganda.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&#038;referringSource=articleShare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expos\u00e9<\/a> published Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>After Evans married\u200c Singham in\u200b 2017, \u2064though, she\u2014and the ostensibly &#8220;anti-war&#8221; Code Pink\u2014took a hard pro-China turn. She now portrays the authoritarian\u2062 regime as &#8220;a defender of \u200dthe oppressed\u2063 and a model for economic growth without slavery or war,&#8221; the <i>Times<\/i> wrote.<\/p>\n<p>That turn came as two \u200bgroups\u200b linked to Singham \u2062poured money \u2062into Code Pink&#8217;s coffers to \u2064the tune of $1.4 million, according to the <i>Times<\/i>. All told,\u2062 Singham has given &#8220;hundreds of millions of dollars&#8221; to a vast network of far-left \u2064nonprofits that &#8220;echo Chinese government \u2064talking points, echo one another, \u2062and are\u2063 echoed in turn by the Chinese state media,&#8221; the <em>Times<\/em> wrote. None \u2063of them has registered under the \u2062Foreign Agents Registration\u2062 Act.<\/p>\n<p>Singham, who\u2063 has &#8220;long admired Maoism,&#8221; himself lives in China, where he &#8220;works closely with the Chinese government media machine and is financing its propaganda worldwide,&#8221; according to the <em>Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Just last month, Singham &#8220;attended a Chinese Communist Party propaganda forum,&#8221; where he \u2064jotted in a &#8220;notebook adorned with a red hammer and sickle,&#8221; the paper found.<\/p>\n<p>While the <i>Times<\/i> prided itself on being &#8220;the \u200cfirst to unravel&#8221; Singham&#8217;s \u2063network, other wealthy leftists have long meddled in American politics. Swiss billionaire Hansj\u00f6rg Wyss, for example, has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/swiss-billionaire-bankrolls-biden-agenda-with-63-million-in-dark-money\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">evaded<\/a> U.S. bans on foreign donations to\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/arabella-advisors-fires-ceo-amid-financial-and-political-setbacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fund<\/a> the shadowy left-wing\u2062 network <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/documents-provide-rare-glimpse-into-how-arabella-advisors-exerts-centralized-control-over-a-vast-left-wing-advocacy-network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arabella \u2062Advisors<\/a>, the <em>Washington Free \u200cBeacon<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Singham&#8217;s wife, Evans, has embraced her husband&#8217;s pro-Beijing attitudes since their marriage. She \u200bhas gone so far as to defend China&#8217;s genocide of the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang province, calling the Uyghurs &#8220;terrorists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Code \u2063Pink activists in June showed up at the office of Rep. Seth\u200b Moulton (D., \u200cMass.), where they \u2063&#8221;denied evidence of forced labor in Xinjiang and said the\u200c congressman should visit and see how happy people were there,&#8221; the <i>Times<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>A\u200d <em>Times<\/em> analysis found that &#8220;Chinese state media accounts have retweeted \u2064people and organizations in Mr. Singham&#8217;s network\u200c at least\u200b 122\u200c times since February 2020.&#8221; Most of \u2064those people and organizations have connections either to Code Pink\u2063 or to another of \u200cSingham&#8217;s pro-China groups, No Cold War.<\/p>\n<p>When a YouTube commenter <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/39kH8e8ao0w?t=3767\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asked<\/a> Evans in June if &#8220;there was something negative \u2064you could tell us\u200b about\u200b China,&#8221; the Code Pink founder answered, &#8220;I can&#8217;t, for the\u2063 life of me, think of anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Evans later came up \u2062with one complaint: The Chinese, she said, &#8220;don&#8217;t take American credit cards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Published under:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/ccp\/\" title=\"View all posts in CCP\">CCP<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/china\/\" title=\"View all posts in China\">China<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/communism\/\" title=\"View all posts in Communism\">Communism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/dark-money\/\" title=\"View all posts in Dark Money\">Dark Money<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/democratic-donors\/\" title=\"View all posts in Democratic Donors\">Democratic Donors<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/human-rights\/\" title=\"View all posts in Human Rights\">Human Rights<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/hypocrisy\/\" title=\"View all posts in Hypocrisy\">Hypocrisy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/new-york-times\/\" title=\"View all posts in New York Times\">New York Times<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/propaganda\/\" title=\"View all posts in Propaganda\">Propaganda<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/protests\/\" title=\"View all posts in Protests\">Protests<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/uyghurs\/\" title=\"View all posts in Uyghurs\">Uyghurs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Code Pink&#8217;s founder, known for disruptive tactics, once condemned China&#8217;s oppressive regime. However, her stance shifted after marrying socialist millionaire Neville Roy Singham. In 2015, Jodie Evans, former Democratic adviser, stated that her group, Code Pink, strongly advocates for certain demands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":1993444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}