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Lawmakers question whether Chinese influence have helped to fuel the chaos.

The FBI is investigating whatโ€™s fueling the riots against immigration enforcement in Los Angeles, said the agencyโ€™s director, Kash Patel.

โ€œThe FBI is investigating any and all monetary connections responsible for these riots,โ€ Patel told The Epoch Times in response to rising concerns about possible Chinese influence behind the chaos.

One group backing the unrest is the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a communist political party linked to networks funded by pro-Beijing tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham.

The group has been posting updates about the riots on social media platform X, describing the arrests of illegal immigrants as a โ€œwar being waged on immigrant communitiesโ€ while accusing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement of โ€œkidnapping our neighbors, friends and families.โ€

One group closely allied with the Party for Socialism and Liberation is The Peopleโ€™s Forum, a Singham-funded organization based in Manhattan that has advocated for the ruling Chinese regimeโ€™s causes.

Co-executive director of The Peopleโ€™s Forum, Manolo de los Santos, a New York resident, has praised Chinaโ€™s COVID-19 policies, and the group has hosted events in Manhattan that hail the ascent of the Chinese Communist Party as a โ€œdecades-long epic battle that transformed not only China, but also the world,โ€ according to a description on X.

The two organizations have been cross-posting on social media X in solidarity with the rioters. Both have been calling for more protests in their respective locales.

The Peopleโ€™s Forum, in an X post on the afternoon of June 10, asked people to gather in Manhattanโ€™s Foley Square at 5 p.m. to โ€œdemand ICE get out of our communities.โ€ A poster attached showed the Party for Socialism and Liberation, as well as Code Pinkโ€”an anti-war activist group that Singhamโ€™s wife, Jodi Evans, co-foundedโ€”as event endorsers.

Evans began a campaign called โ€œChina Is Not Our Enemyโ€ through Code Pink in 2020. She is also a contributor to The China Academy, a content platform that partners with Chinese state media and other Chinese state-linked entities to project Beijingโ€™s narratives. One member of her group in March disrupted a February 2023 hearing by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, waving a banner with the slogan โ€œChina is not our enemy.โ€

In July 2023, Singham attended a Chinese propaganda forum in Shanghai that aimed to promote the regimeโ€™s international image. He was seated next to speaker Zhou Zhanโ€™an, who taught at the School of Marxism at Chinaโ€™s state-affiliated Fudan University, taking notes on a red-covered notebook, photos from the university show.

The Peopleโ€™s Forum has openly commented about its financing source and its ideological stance.

By Eva Fu

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