Newsweek says it’s all very unconfirmed and that relevant parties did not return its calls before deadline. The publication was unable to collect comment about alleged attacks by pro-CCP activists from the San Francisco Police Department, Governor Newsom’s office, the Chinese Foreign Ministry, and a certain bus-trip organizer called Liu Qiang (“Police Accused of Inaction As Anti-CCP Activists Assaulted in San Francisco,” November 22, 2023).
At least according to the alleged victims, though, San Francisco police mostly stood by as allies of the Chinese Communist Party attacked human rights activists for protesting the repressive policies of the Chinese government while Chinese Dictator Xi Jinping was visiting San Francisco to extract one-sided concessions from U.S. President Joe Biden.
Anti-CCP protesters, who rallied on behalf of freedoms in Tibet, Hong Kong and Xinjiang, were outnumbered by pro-Beijing counterparts, many of whom were allegedly bused in from other parts of the country….
Fengsuo Zhou, executive director of the group Human Rights in China, told Newsweek that U.S.-based pro-CCP groups and their leaders organized transportation for hundreds of residents to travel from New York and other states in order to greet Xi and carry out counterprotests….
Allen Chen, an attorney and member of the Chinese diaspora political group the Democracy Party of China, told Newsweek that he and several others learned of associates who had been targeted by CCP supporters on November 16. While en route to their location, Chen said they were ambushed, too.
Chen said he was attacked with pepper spray in the scuffle. When police arrived, officers separated the groups but made no effort to identify perpetrators, he said….
The Daily Caller website named one organizer as Liu Qiang, a community leader who told a Chinese-language news outlet that he had helped mobilize pro-CCP supporters and arranged 20 tour busses to ferry them to California.
If the San Francisco police are uninclined as a matter of policy to interfere with pro-CCP intimidation and violence, this works for China, which engages in intimidatory activities in the United States and around the world that extend far beyond counterprotests.
