Transnational Repression Campaign Against Shen Yun Intensifies With Threats of Terror

American dance and music ensemble Shen Yun Performing Arts has been targeted with at least 10 threats of bombs, mass shootings, kidnappings, and rape. The threats have been sent through email, usually in Chinese, over the past two weeks with increasing frequency. Several emails were sent to the company’s headquarters. Others were sent to the theaters where Shen Yun was performing or scheduled to perform, prompting evacuations and bomb sweeps. No explosives have been found. Shen Yun has long been a target of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) due to its portrayal of ‘China before communism.’ The latest threat, on March 27, was sent to the Shen Yun headquarters, called Dragon Springs, in upstate New York....