A Just the News investigation has detailed how a wealthy Marxist activist best known for the funding of a global financial network both inside the U.S. and around the world has extensive ties to Chinese Communist Party-linked organizations inside of China.

China-based entrepreneur Neville Roy Singham lives and works in Shanghai, — which the American businessman now calls home — where he runs his network of pro-CCP news sites and other China-linked endeavors. Singham, who sold his ThoughtWorks tech company in 2017, has used the money to fund openly communist endeavors worldwide. Just the News can show that inside of China, Singham and his network collaborate with an array of Chinese propaganda sites, Chinese universities, and other Chinese groups committed to advancing the CCP.

Singham leads and funds a global financial and activist network that operates inside the U.S. and many other countries, and while he rarely grabs the spotlight for himself in public speeches, he did so in November through the Chinese release of a report that sought to denigrate U.S. and Allied Power contributions to WWII.

Helping the CCP and its longtime strongman Xi Jinping to create a "new world order" 

Singham admitted during a CCP-backed forum in Shanghai in November that he had written the 174-page report to combat the U.S.-backed “international rules-based order” — which he called a “lie” — and to help the CCP and its longtime strongman Xi Jinping achieve a “new world order” more favorable to China. This report and the conference where it was introduced helped expose the extensive CCP-linked network in which Singham is ensconced within China.

Just the News reviewed hundreds of pages of Chinese business documents and U.S. tax records, English and Chinese language news sites, Chinese government websites, and more in an effort to provide the most comprehensive look yet at Singham’s operations from his perch in Shanghai. Google Translate and other translation tools were used for some facts found only in Mandarin.

Singham has also been scrutinized by Republican congressional investigators, including House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, whose inquiry detailed some of Singham’s activities inside China.

Just the News has previously reported on how numerous far-left radical activist groups have leadership links or financial ties to the funding network backed by Singham, whom some in his network call "Comrade.”

Singham did not respond to a request for comment sent by Just the News through his wife Jodie Evans, the co-founder of Code Pink.

Singham told The Hindu in 2023 that “I do not work for, nor take instruction from, nor receive funding from the Propaganda Department or any division of the Chinese government or the Communist Party of China… In fact, I do not take orders from any government or political party in the world. I am not now and have never been a member of the Communist Party of China.”

Singham and his WWII revisionist report were introduced at the Global South Academic Forum in China in November through a lengthy keynote speech by Vijay Prashad, the Marxist leader of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research — a part of the Singham Network. Singham is the chairman of Tricontinental’s advisory board.

Singham's report written for CCP-linked forum in collaboration with Chinese university and pro-Xi outlet

"The Victory in the Anti-Fascist War and the Post-War International Order"

Prashad referred to Singham as “one of my oldest & dearest friends” in 2021. Prashad also called him “a Marxist with a massive software company” and noted that funds from the sale of Thoughtworks “were the original source for [Tricontinental’s] endowment, & other projects, which we hope will last for at least a generation.”

The November conference was dubbed “The Victory in the Anti-Fascist War and the Post-War International Order.” The forum said “Our Partners” included the Singham Network’s Tricontinental and the Chinese government-run Institute of International Communication at East China Normal University. This forum was also “jointly hosted” by Tricontinental and ECNU.

The forum was further “organized” by ECNU's International Communication Institute, ECNU's School of Communication, and the Chinese government-led Shanghai Jiao Tong University's School of Marxism. 

This forum’s “co-organizers” also included ECNU's Institute for Regional and Country Studies, the Chinese government-run Fudan University's Institute for Global Communication and All-Media, and Oriental Publishing Center's Institute for Regional and Country Publishing (part of the Chinese state-owned China Publishing Group).

The “keynote speeches” at the forum included ones delivered by Prashad as well as by four Chinese government-linked academics: Li Shenming, a professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and former vice president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, which fall under the control of PRC’s State Council; and Wang Hui, a professor at Tsinghua University.

Singham’s report — “Understanding Who Saved Humanity: A Restorationist History” — was written for Tricontinental. An earlier version of Singham’s report was also published in the pro-CCP outlet Guancha.

He Shenquan is currently the editor-in-chief of Guancha. He has written for and has been listed as a member of the editorial board for the Global Times in the past. The State Department during the first Trump Administration designated the Global Times as a “foreign mission” of the Chinese government due to its Chinese state control.

The first Trump Administration designated the Global Times as a “foreign mission” of the Chinese government due to its Chinese state control. Guancha and a number of other Chinese outlets first reported on Singham’s speech back in November, and Fox News also reported on it this month.

The forum also said it “successfully concluded […] to the music of the assembled singing” The Internationale — which is considered by many as an almost official communist and socialist anthem, first sung in 1871 after the defeat of the Paris Commune, which ended with a death toll of some 30,000.

Chinese state-run media such as the China Global Television Network, the Shanghai Media Group, Jiefang Daily, and The Paper all “conducted special reports” on the forum, as did the Singham-linked Guancha outlet.

The forum said that the People’s Dispatch was also among the far-left outlets which “simultaneously broadcast forum-related information.”

“Luo Yi”: Singham adopts Chinese name for his writings at Guancha

Singham has written multiple articles for Guancha outlet, where he goes by the name “Luo Yi.”

Singham’s September article for Guancha — titled “Who defeated fascism? The West is lying; we must expose the truth.” — previewed his November report pushing a revisionist view of WWII.

“As we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the World Anti-Fascist War, Western powers continue to repeat their usual rhetoric: America's industrial strength and Britain's determination saved the world from fascism. This is a colossal lie. The truth is crystal clear in the data: while Western powers were calculating their economic interests, the Soviet Union and the Chinese people paid a bloody price. It was not Anglo-American capital that defeated fascism, but the leadership of socialism and the heroism of the people—originating from the brilliant strategies of Moscow and Yan'an.”

Singham claimed: “This is a war that has not ended. From Korea to Vietnam, from Indonesia to Gaza, the imperialist sword has always been aimed at people resisting oppression.”

China’s Tencent QQ reposted Singham’s September piece for Guancha.

Reporters Without Borders: “Chinese propaganda media”

Guancha then shared Singham’s November report and raved about his presentation, claiming that it “holds significant and far-reaching importance for promoting the construction of a multipolar world platform and re-establishing historical subjectivity.”

Chinese outlets such as Tencent QQ, Phoenix New Media, Sina Corporation, and Sohu all reposted this Guancha story promoting Singham’s report, and an entry at China’s Baike Baidu also promoted Singham’s paper and the conference.

Reporters Without Borders described Guancha as “Chinese propaganda media.” The China Media Project assessed that Guancha “is not directly controlled by the CCP but abides closely by government narratives.” Dissent Magazine reported that “Guancha’s homepage features a constant supply of nationalist propaganda and West-bashing headlines” and pointed to “Guancha’s staunch anti-Americanism.”

The Doublethink Lab — a Taiwan-based group aimed at countering Chinese malign influence — assessed that the CCP “in the form of both the central government via the State Council and the Shanghai municipal government, has influenced the organization since its inception.” InfluenceWatch describes Doublethink Lab as advocating that "web platforms and media strategies identify and censor purported CCP propaganda distributed and released online."

The New York Times reported back in 2023 that a “photo, from the Chinese news site Guancha, shows Mr. Singham, front right, at a breakout session last month during a Chinese Communist Party forum.” The outlet said that “in a photo, taken during a breakout session on how to promote the party abroad, Mr. Singham is seen jotting in a notebook adorned with a red hammer and sickle.”

An article published by Guancha from July 2023 about the International Image Communication Innovation Forum of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai was centered on the theme of "Telling the Story of Chinese-style Modernization.” 

The outlet said that a sub-forum on "The Discourse Expression of the Communist Party of China in Practicing the Global Civilization Initiative" was hosted by the China Institute of Fudan University, and the photo of “guests participating in discussions at the sub-forum” featured Singham. Zhang Weiwei — linked to other Singham Network affiliates — is also a frequent columnist and collaborator with Guancha.

Dissent Magazine noted that Eric Li — “a founder of Guancha, a leading nationalist online media outlet” — also “plays an important role in the ecosystem of this new state-aligned nationalism.” The outlet further noted that Guancha official “Zhang Weiwei … was Deng Xiaoping’s interpreter and a member of a government committee dedicated to launching state-sponsored think tanks.”

“Another Guancha contributor, Hu Angang, is a director of a government-sponsored think tank at Tsinghua University and a party theorist who has suggested that to become ‘a new type of superpower,’ China has to create a monocultural society of one ‘state race’ — a theory behind the government’s ethnic homogenization policies, including the ‘reeducation’ camps in Xinjiang,” the outlet added.

Singham Network also tied to CCP-linked Chinese universities

The Singham Network and some of its key members are also closely tied to some Chinese universities. ECNU — which played a big role in Singham’s WWII revisionist report’s rollout last year — reposted the November article from Guancha promoting the report.

The Singham-linked Lu Xinyu, a “distinguished professor” at ECNU and the “doctoral supervisor” of ECNU’s School of Communication, gave an interview to the far-left Brasil de Fato about the Global South Academic Forum in November.

“China is the only major rising socialist power. We are engaged in a significant struggle against U.S. imperial hegemony. We firmly believe that a new global history, a new historical perspective, and a new worldview must be built on a world history in which the people are the central subject,” Lu said, claiming that “the Communist Party of China and all socialist parties around the world represent progressive, popular interests.”

The New York Times previously reported that Singham Network funds have “flowed to a group that produces a publication, Brasil de Fato, that intersperses articles about land rights with praise for Xi Jinping.”

ECNU had announced back in 2021 that it had signed a “strategic cooperation agreement” with Shanghai Maku Culture Communication — also closely linked to the Singham Network.

The Chinese university said at the time that the “signing ceremony” attendees included Dean Lu Xinyu, Deputy CCP Secretary and Vice Dean Du Binbin, Vice Dean Chen Hong, and Vice Dean Xiao Yang of the School of Communication and Journalism. Attendees also included Xiong Jie, Zhu Weiyan, and Zhou Yihua — the co-founders of Maku. The announcement also said that “Zhai Tingjun” and “Marco AF Gaspar” — described as members of Tricontinental — were also present.

The House Select Committee on the CCP issued a report last year which noted that ECNU “hosts a State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy. They were involved in the balloon incidents from China in 2023. It partners with a defense lab and the blacklisted China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.”

“They are under the thumb of the CCP,” the congressional committee said of schools like ECNU. “They operate under PRC law; are run by Chinese-majority boards and have Party presence in leadership; and are aligned with the CCP’s national strategy, including its military buildup.”

The AmaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism — based in South Africa — said that Singham had sent an August 2021 email which “shines more light on his connections to the Chinese establishment and the extent to which that influenced his network.”

The center said Singham had urged the recipients to attend an online lecture by Li Bo, who Singham described as “a very good friend of mine here [in China].”

The center said that “Li Bo is an academic linked to the Singham network as a representative of Tricontinental in China. He is the executive director of the Shanghai Chunqiu Institute for Development and Strategic Studies, assistant dean at the China Institute of Fudan University, and the academic representative of the Guancha Syndicate.”

The AmaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism also assessed that “the result of these overlapping relationships is a network of nationalist figures closely associated with the Chinese party-state.”

The Chinese website China Diplomacy said last year the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University “hosted a high-level dialogue between Chinese and Indian scholars” on "The New Global South in the Trump 2.0 Era." Prashad was among those who “engaged in in-depth discussions, exploring the strategic opportunities and challenges facing Southern countries against the backdrop of a disrupted power balance in the international system, and the roles that China and India can play in this process.”

China Academy and Wave Media tied to Singham Network — and the CCP

The leader of the far-left anti-war group Code Pink has personally recruited Americans for pro-CCP “Red China” trips in the country. The China Academy’s trips, pushed by Code Pink, say that they are “developed in collaboration with” Sunriver, a Chinese tourism company founded by Chinese businessman Yu Faxiang.

The China Academy describes itself as “an intellectual content network dedicated to helping global audiences understand the key dynamics that are driving how China sees the world, from expert voices who resonate with millions of Chinese youths today and who shape policies and narratives in China.” The academy claims to have “over 150 million subscribers across Chinese social media” and “extensive connections with China’s top intellectuals.”

The “Contributors” for the academy include Jodie Evans, as well as others tied to Singham, including Prashad, and Rania Khalek, a far-left host on BreakThrough News, which is also part of the Singham Network.

Describes themselves as "a content export team"

The China Academy appears to run Wave Media, with the media group’s YouTube page makes clear that it is part of the academy. Wave Media’s “Bottom Wave” website on the Chinese Bilibili platform includes a “collection” uploaded in 2023 titled “BT News” — with numerous video clips of interviews related to the Singham-linked BreakThrough. Another “collection” from 2022 relates to “Interpreting the Report of the 20th CPC National Congress.”

The LinkedIn page for Zhai Guanhua states that he is the “chief columnist” at the China Academy as well as the executive producer and the lead for Wave Media’s YouTube channel.

A Guancha article from 2023 describes Zhai Guanhua as the “Shanghai Underwave Culture Producer.” “Hello everyone, I'm from Shanghai Dilang Culture Communication Co., Ltd., a content export team that also provides business consulting services,” Zhai Guanhua says in a transcribed speech in the article. “The point I heard most today was how to tell China's story well and how to consolidate China's narrative in countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative.”

A Chinese site for Wave Media also states that it is the “Official Weibo of Shanghai Dilang Culture Communication.” The China Academy website has an entire section of the website promoting work by Guancha.

Zhang Weiwei is yet another person listed on the “Contributors / Advisory Board” for the China Academy, and he is also listed as a “distinguished Professor at Fudan University and Director of the China Institute in Shanghai.”

The China Academy says that Zhang “served as an English translator” for Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping “and other Chinese leaders” and “spoke at a national conference hosted by President Xi Jinping” in 2016, according to his China Academy bio, which also notes that “he represented ideological circles at the PRC’s 70th anniversary parade” in 2019 and “lectured and advised the CPC Political Bureau on strengthening China’s international communications” in 2021.

Dongsheng News: “Unique progressive coverage of China that has been sadly missing”

Chairman Smith has described Dongsheng as “a newsletter created by Mr. Singham.” The New York Times reported that “in 2020, Mr. Singham emailed his friends to introduce a newsletter, now called Dongsheng News, that covers China in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Drawing stories from the state media, it blends lighthearted news with bureaucratic official prose.”

“Dongsheng’s editors, in China, come from Tricontinental, but its address leads to the People’s Forum, a Manhattan event space also funded by Mr. Singham,” the outlet said. Singham reportedly told his friends that Dongsheng “provides unique progressive coverage of China that has been sadly missing.”

“His ties to the propaganda machine date back at least to 2019, when, corporate documents show, he started a consulting business with Chinese partners,” the Times added. “Those partners are active in the propaganda apparatus, co-owning with the municipal government of Tongren a media company that promotes anti-poverty policies.”

Dongsheng published much openly pro-CCP articles prior to apparently being shuttered a couple of years ago.

The Singham-linked Chinese outlet touted “News on China” and said that “Dongsheng (Eastern Voices) is an international collective of researchers interested in Chinese politics and society. We publish articles about China from a Chinese perspective, focusing on geopolitics, economics, national politics, agriculture and the environment, science and technology, culture, and the lives of the people. If you would like to receive our weekly newsletter, please subscribe to China News and Africa Newsletter. We publish in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French.”

The outlet also said that “we draw from a wide range of sources, encompassing the work of leading Chinese intellectuals, academics, and public opinion leaders — voices that are rarely published outside of China.” The authors were overwhelmingly, and perhaps exclusively, pro-CCP.

The outlet also said that “Dongsheng Explains is a monthly publication that presents key concepts, processes, and phenomena in China. Once a month, a topic is chosen by our editorial team to deepen our collective understanding of Chinese society, history, and contemporary reality.”

The Singham-linked outlet’s articles at the People’s Dispatch stopped in 2023, its YouTube page stopped sharing videos in late 2023, its Instagram account stopped posting in 2024, and its X account stopped tweeting in 2024 as well.

Wenhua Zongheng: Singham-linked Chinese journal supervised by CCP commission

The Singham Network also publishes the international version of a Chinese journal supervised by a Chinese government commission which has pledged its fealty to Xi Jinping’s socialist vision and which advances CCP priorities. Wenhua Zongheng — roughly translated as “culture” or “civilization” and “horizontals and verticals” but often dubbed the “Beijing Cultural Review” — is described as a “Quarterly Journal of Chinese Thought” that has been around since 2008 and has been pushed and published by multiple Singham Network affiliates in recent years.

The Singham ally wrote at the time that Tricontinental and Dongsheng “have partnered with” Wenhua Zongheng “to contribute to the development of a better understanding of and engagement with the thinking and discussions taking place within China.”

Prashad wrote that, in the partnership, Tricontinental and Dongsheng “will publish an international edition of Wenhua Zongheng, releasing four issues per year in English, Portuguese, and Spanish” and that “the international edition will include translations of a selection of articles from the original Chinese editions that hold particular significance for the Global South” while Tricontinental “will run a column in the Chinese edition of Wenhua Zongheng” as well.

“Instead of the global division pursued by the New Cold War, our mission is to learn from each other towards a world of collaboration rather than confrontation,” they claimed. With the Dongsheng website now defunct, it appears that Wenhua Zongheng is now published directly through Tricontinental.

The Singham Network affiliate says that it has “partnered with Wenhua Zongheng to publish an international edition of the journal, releasing two issues per year featuring a selection of articles that hold particular relevance for the Global South.” Among the titles published are “The Collapse of the Neoliberal World Order and the Rise of China and Russia in Global Governance” as well as “Towards a World Order without Hegemony: A Proposal from the Global South.”

Baike Baidu says that Wenhua Zongheng is “a bimonthly journal of thought commentary sponsored by the China Western Research and Development Promotion Association” and that it is affiliated with Nanjing University.

A Chinese journal's database page for Wenhua Zongheng states that it is “managed and sponsored by the China Western Development and Research Promotion Association, and undertaken by the Beijing Xiuyuan Economic and Social Research Foundation.”

“At Tricontinental, where Mr. Singham chairs the International Advisory Board,” Chairman Smith wrote to Prashad in February, saying that Chinese researchers “collaborate on what Tricontinental refers to as a ‘special project’ called Wenhua Zongheng.”

“Wenhua Zongheng operates under the supervisory control of the Association for Promotion of West China Research and Development, which appears to function as a state proxy for the National Ethnic Affairs Commission of the People’s Republic of China. The interlocking ownership and management roles across consulting, cultural, and tech firms point to a deliberate strategy to embed Chinese propaganda activities in ostensibly independent business ventures,” Chairman Smith wrote. “The fact that Mr. Singham and his companies are structurally and physically embedded in the CCP network raises serious concerns and questions about whether Mr. Singham’s U.S. ventures, including non-profits linked to him, such as yours, serve as foreign principals for CCP-aligned influence campaigns, all while being disguised as independent enterprise.”

The Chinese association that oversees Wenhua Zongheng states that it is “registered” with the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs and “supervised” by the Chinese State Ethnic Affairs Commission.

The association directly touts that “the purpose of this association is to be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era." The association has a “Party Building Activities” webpage and declares that it “adheres to the overall leadership of the Communist Party of China, establishes organizations of the Communist Party of China in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Communist Party of China, carries out Party activities, and provides necessary conditions for the activities of Party organizations.”

Shared office space with Shanghai Maku Cultural Communications

Singham’s office space in downtown Shanghai is shared with a Chinese propaganda group. The New York Times reported in 2023 that Singham “shares office space — and his groups share staff members — with a company whose goal is to educate foreigners” about “the miracles that China has created on the world stage.”

“Mr. Singham’s office, adorned in red and yellow, sits on the 18th floor of Shanghai’s swanky Times Square. A visit shows that he is not alone,” the outlet said, adding that Maku “says its goal is to ‘tell China’s story well,’ a term commonly used for foreign propaganda.”

“It can be hard to tell where Maku begins and Mr. Singham’s groups end,” The Times added. “Nonprofit filings show that nearly $1.8 million flowed from one of the UPS store nonprofits to Maku Group.”

Fox News reported that former Thoughtworks executive Guo Xiao “sits on the board of Shanghai Maku Cultural Communications, according to company records.” Guo Xiao was previously listed as the president and CEO of Thoughtworks beneath the then-founder and chairman, Singham.

Prashad co-authored articles at the People’s Dispatch with Jie Xiong, who describes himself as “a founder of Shanghai Maku Cultural Communications, a company that introduces China to Global South readers.”

The since-deleted website for Maku featured “Maku Insights” and “Deep Insights of Real China” as the group repeatedly pushed pro-CCP narratives, including claiming that “CPC has been consistent in their pursuit of common prosperity. Common prosperity and socialism have never disappeared from CPC's official statements.”

Maku said its “values” were “to deepen and enhance the understanding of China among influential intellectuals and the general public around the world (especially in the Global South)” and its “Mission” was to “provide rigorous research, news, analysis, and stories about China to global mass media networks and think tanks.” The Maku “Vision” was “serving the people; internationalism; integrity; curiosity; criticism and self-criticism; collectivism.”

It was reported by Breitbart earlier this year that millions of dollars flowed from the Singham Network to Maku.

“Shared personnel and office location are not Singham’s only touch points with Maku. IRS records show that over $5 million has flowed from Singham-linked U.S. nonprofits to Maku,” Breitbart reported. “The Justice and Education Fund — funded by Singham, with his wife Jodie Evans listed as the nonprofit’s president on filings — sent $1,769,238 to Maku in 2021 and $2,298,297 in 2022. In 2023, it paid another $1,879,888 to Maku for ‘production of online news program.’ The People’s Support Foundation, another nonprofit helmed by Evans, sent $142,154 to Maku.”

An 990 Internal Revenue Service shows a filing for Tricontinental listed an independent contractor compensation payment of $2.19 million to Maku in 2024 — further evidence of the Singham Network directly funding this Chinese entity. Fox News reported this month that “three Singham-linked U.S. nonprofits sent a total of $9.1 million in seven payments” to Maku.

Singham set up and leads Shanghai-based CCP-linked consultancies

It was reported by Newlines Magazine in 2022 that Singham “is invested in two companies in the country’s consultancy and food industries: Shanghai Luoweixing, with a registered capital contribution of $20 million; and Gondwana Foods, with one of $32.5 million.”

The outlet added that Singham “is also listed as the legal representative of a third company, Shanghai Shinong Company Ltd., registered in January 2020.”

Chinese business records state that Singham holds “100%” of the shares in Shanghai Luoweixing, where he is listed as the “Executive Director and General Manager.”

Breitbart reported earlier this year that “in 2019, Singham settled in Shanghai and founded a consulting firm whose official name in Mandarin is 上海洛维星商务咨询有限公司.”

“That name in Mandarin can be translated into English in multiple ways, making tracking the firm’s online footprint challenging,” the outlet said. “The most common English translation of the company’s name is ‘Star Stream Consulting,’ but English-language translation software sometimes renders the company’s name as ‘Shanghai Luoweixing’ or ‘Shanghai Lovistar.’ Official Chinese corporate records confirm that Singham launched Star Stream in 2019.”

The outlet also reported that Singham’s Shanghai Luoweixing and China’s Maku “not only share an office location, as previously reported, but literally share the same floor in seemingly adjoining suites.”

U.S. Senators: "far more entrenched in CCP-aligned networks" than people know

The government of Huangpu – a key district in Shanghai — indicated in February that “Shanghai Lovistar” was involved in advancing CCP initiatives. The Huangpu government website said that “Huaihai Middle Road Subdistrict held a plenary meeting of the 2025 Regional [Chinese Communist] Party Building Joint Conference and released the four chapters of the 2026 Regional Party Building Project” on "High-Quality Development Around Xintiandi.”

The local Chinese government website added that “Shanghai Lovistar Business Consulting” and other Chinese firms “launched the ‘Around New World: Leaping Through the Four Seasons’ themed event.”

Chairman Smith’s letters to Prashad and other Singham Network affiliates detailed some of the CCP connections within Singham’s current Chinese business ventures.

“The Committee has discovered that Mr. Singham’s business ties are far more entrenched in CCP-aligned networks than public reports have suggested,” the GOP chairman who represents Missouri wrote. “In addition to sharing office space with Mr. Singham, Maku Group also maintains direct connections to several of his current China ventures.”

The House chairman pointed to the CCP links for Singham’s Chinese consultancy. “Based on business records, Xiong Jie appears to be a central operator in Mr. Singham’s broader influence apparatus, which includes his Maku group co-founders Zhou Yihua and Zhu Weiyan,” Chairman Smith wrote. “Zhou Yihua is secretary of the Communist Party Branch at Shanghai Luoweixing Business Consulting Co., Ltd. Zhu Weiyan serves as Deputy Secretary of the Student Party General Branch of the School of Clinical Medicine at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine and is also Director of the Student Office of the Ninth People’s Hospital.”

Singham reportedly served as a consultant for the now-blacklisted Chinese telecom giant Huawei while running his own tech firm in the early 2000s. “According to a biographical note on the Chinese recruitment platform Boss Zhipin, Singham worked with Chinese tech monolith Huawei from 2001 to 2008 as a strategic technical consultant,” Newlines Magazine reported. “Two years later, Thoughtworks’ Fifth Agile Software Development Conference was held in Beijing, with Singham proclaiming his own influence on Huawei in his opening speech.”

Singham subpoenaed by Congressional committee

Newlines Magazine noted in 2022 that “Singham’s role as a strategic technical adviser with Huawei may have ended more than a decade ago, but he has continued to bank on Chinese development.”

The GOP-led House Oversight Committee voted this year to subpoena Singham for information about this sprawling activist network.

Congressional Republicans have long called for investigations into the Singham Network, its links to the CCP, its leadership in nationwide leftwing protests, and its role in anti-Israel encampments, vandalism, and violence on campus. The GOP — including then-Senator, R-Fla., and now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio — has for years asked the DOJ to look into possible Foreign Agents Registration Act violations and has called upon the Treasury Department and IRS to consider revoking the tax-exempt status for Singham’s network of non-profits who in turn, fund heavily the production of pro-CCP propaganda.

It remains to be seen whether the Marxist activist’s extensive links inside of China will move the needle.