The PLA is probably still funding protest groups, it worked for the Soviets

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/07/23/chinese-consulate-in-houston-may-have-helped-stoke-racial-tensions-in-u-s-n673348

The Chinese consulates in America have become nests of spies and saboteurs, so it shouldn’t surprise us that they are carrying out directives of the Chinese Communist government to weaken and divide America by stirring the pot of racial division.

Fox:

“Also, there are stories that this consulate had links with protest groups in the United States providing financial and logistical support. That’s unconfirmed,” he added. “But, what is confirmed is that the Chinese Foreign Ministry and the Communist Party’s global ties have been engaged in a malicious disinformation campaign, deliberately stoking racial tensions in the U.S.

“And, U.S. Customs has seized items coming from China this year that would be very handy for protesters,” Chang noted.

It’s one thing to create false Facebook and Twitter accounts to try and influence the American election, as Russia is accused of doing in 2016. But it’s quite another thing to give aid to violent protest groups, buy off journalists, steal intellectual property, hack into private networks, and conduct massive surveillance operations designed to undermine the American government.

http://chinascope.org/archives/24225

Chinese Consulate in Houston Intervened in US Political Movement

Radio Free Asia (RFA) published an article explaining the reason that the U.S. closed China’s Consulate in Houston.

The article stated that the U.S. has known that the staff members at the consulate were conducting suspicious activities, but, for a while, it did not take any action. The Second Department of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), which is the PLA’s intelligence unit, sent staff members from a large network company, with fake IDs, to China’s Consulate in Houston. Those technicians used a large video platform’s backend data to identify people who might participate in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) and ANTIFA’s protests and then created and sent them customized videos on how to organize riots and how to do promotions.

The purpose was to “weaponize” big data technology. It delivered relevant materials precisely to those people who were most likely to participate in the protests, while other people could not even find those videos.

RFA did not spell out the company names. A Twitter account said the technicians were from Huawei and the video platform they used to identify candidates and push videos to was TikTok.

Sources:

1. Radio Free Asia, August 7, 2020

https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/ear/ear-straw-08062020081345.html

1. Twitter, @Raymond999USA

https://www.newsmax.com/us/fbi-storming-the-capitol-riots-bitcoin/2021/01/16/id/1005913/

The FBI is looking into whether extremists who planned and executed the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol were funded by foreign organizations, individuals, and governments, including examining payments of $500,000 from a French national to key groups and figures before the rioting, according to a former FBI official.

The payments, made in Bitcoin, were documented by a company that analyzes transfers of cryptocurrency, reports NBC News. Such payments are documented through a public ledger, allowing them to be traced.

In addition, the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and other agencies have reported, since the riot, actors influenced by Russia, China, and Iran have "seized the opportunity to amplify narratives in furtherance of their policy interest amid the presidential transition."

"In at least one instance, a Russian proxy claimed that antifa members disguised themselves as supporters of President [Donald] Trump, and were responsible for storming the Capitol Building," according to one unclassified intelligence report.

Chinese media has also used the riots to cast the United States "broadly in decline and to justify the country's crackdown on protesters in Hong Kong."

According to the FBI official, Russian involvement is not necessarily suspected in the Bitcoin transfers. The French computer programmer suspected of making the transfers reportedly died by suicide Dec. 8 after triggering the transfers, French media reported.

The FBI is also examining whether any of the money was used to finance illegal acts, which could bring money laundering and conspiracy charges.