The U.S. State Department has condemned the intimidation campaign carried out by Beijing and its proxies targeting a New York-based performing arts group, and is calling for measures to ensure freedom of expression.
Shen Yun Performing Arts’s mission is to revive traditional Chinese culture that’s been all but erased in China; Shen Yun also portrays human rights abuses taking place in China today targeting Falun Gong, a faith group the regime has been trying to eliminate for the past 25 years. For portraying to the world what the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) seeks to suppress, Shen Yun has faced nonstop efforts by the CCP to sabotage the company’s annual global tour.
“We condemn such acts of intimidation and urge protection of the right to free expression,” a State Department spokesperson told The Epoch Times, adding that they “urge the Chinese Communist Party to end its now 25-year campaign to eradicate Falun Gong.”