The FBI should investigate evidence of ties between a pro-China group and a co-founder of Black Lives Matter that may have contributed to unrest in U.S. cities, seven House conservatives told The Daily Signal.
“The Black Lives Matter organization’s leaders are open about their devotion to Marxism, so there’s little wonder they’re teaming up with the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department to advocate destabilizing and destructive violence and rioting in American cities,” Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., said.
Banks, a member of the Republican Study Committee’s China Task Force, said he will call on the Justice Department to investigate “this relationship” and determine any violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
“We need to protect ourselves from foreign interference with additional legislation,” Banks said. “I urge my colleagues in Congress to pass my bill [the Countering Chinese Propaganda Act] that would authorize sanctions against the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party.”
Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for Foreign Policy, has written three articles for The Daily Signal (here, here, and here) exploring the financial connection between Black Futures Lab, a project of Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza, and the Chinese Progressive Association in San Francisco, a pro-China group founded by Marxists nearly 50 years ago.
The Chinese Progressive Association is the “fiscal sponsor” of the Black Futures Lab, according to the latter’s website.
A columnist for The New York Times took issue with Gonzalez’s conclusions, saying that the former journalist had “conflated two nonprofits with the same name.” But Gonzalez fact-checked the Times’ article and wrote that the facts point to links among three Chinese Progressive Association entities in San Francisco, Boston, and New York.
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