From Austin to New York, pro-China network fuels week of anti-US

Here's a coincidence worth noticing. Right as President Trump prepares to sit down with Xi Jinping, a network of anti-American protest outfits suddenly lights up from Austin to New York. The money trail points to Neville Roy Singham, a tech tycoon with a long record of amplifying Beijing's talking points. That timing is not an accident. These events don't organize themselves.

These groups like to dress up as grassroots, but they're about as grassroots as a corporate lobbying memo. They're paid actors with slide decks and donor-funded hashtags. When a foreign billionaire finances protests against the country you live in, that isn't activism. That's influence operations, pure and simple. The American left plays along because the protests happen to match their own talking points, so they look the other way on where the checks come from. They didn't care about foreign interference when it came from Russia, either. That excuse is wearing thin.

Trump doesn't need lectures from Beijing's useful idiots before he sits down across the table from Xi. He's going to negotiate for American workers and American interests, and the manufactured outrage is meant to weaken his hand before he even starts. It won't work, but the fact that they're trying so hard tells you exactly how effective his trade and foreign policy have been. The protests aren't a sign of strength. They're a sign of panic.

The next time you see a suspiciously well-organized anti-Trump rally, follow the money. It might lead to a Silicon Valley mansion or a Beijing office, but it won't lead to your neighbor's kitchen table. Americans can see a foreign-funded smear operation when it's spelled out for them, and that's precisely what this is.