‘Insidious’: Activists Say China’s ‘United Front’ Was behind Assaults against Protesters in the U.S.

When mobs of pro-Beijing demonstrators beat up activists who protested against Xi Jinping’s visit to San Francisco for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit last year, there were indications that official Chinese state and Communist Party organs had coordinated their efforts.

On Tuesday afternoon, human-rights groups published the most comprehensive analysis of the street violence to date, identifying a few dozen U.S.-based community organizations that they said were at the sites of these incidents and are linked to Beijing’s “united front” political-influence operations.