The Times unraveled a financial network that stretches from Chicago to Shanghai and uses American nonprofits to push Chinese talking points worldwide.

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    On the surface, No Cold War is a loose collective run mostly by American and British activists who say the West’s rhetoric against China has distracted from issues like climate change and racial injustice.

    In fact, a New York Times investigation found, it is part of a lavishly funded influence campaign that defends China and pushes its propaganda. At the center is a charismatic American millionaire, Neville Roy Singham, who is known as a socialist benefactor of far-left causes.

    Mr. Singham says he does not work at the direction of the Chinese government. But the line between him and the propaganda apparatus is so blurry that he 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.”

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      If he’s so socialist and far-left, why in the world would he support China? They’re politically communist in name only, and economically capitalist.

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        Well even though I’m old enough where I should have already known this term, my time on lemmy has introduced me to Tankies.

        My guess is this guy is a Tankie: if it has communism in it in any way shape or form then it’s the most amazing thing ever and anything you say about it that would say otherwise is a dirty liberal lie.

        Something like that.