Lawmaker Asks How US Can Protect Shen Yun Against Malign CCP Campaign

WASHINGTON—An escalating Chinese campaign aimed at silencing a U.S. arts group was brought up at an April 17 hearing on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) political warfare against the United States. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) raised the alarm over the recent fake bomb threats targeting New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts, whose slogan, “China before communism,” has made it a target of Beijing for nearly two decades. Ms. Norton cited emails sent to theater officials threatening mass shootings and bombings if they refused to cancel Shen Yun’s performances. She also cited multiple instances in which the tires on Shen Yun’s tour buses were slashed. Although the bomb and shooting threats turned out to be empty, the bus tires were slashed in such a way that they would have exploded when driven at speed....