The problem is that “I am often scared and angry about social change” does not inherently lend itself to interesting art. You can be as technically skilled as the greats, but art with nothing interesting to say is just a commodity.
Jared Holt
This is junk research, primarily motivated by the desire to delegitimize grassroots American organizating by attempting to associate them with "hostile foreign forces" — a tactic widely used by the CCP to delegitimize grassroots Chinese civil society whenever it finds such movements inconvenient.
And finally, these reports make a mockery of actual, high-quality China influence research.
This must stop now — and journalists reporting on this style of report should do so with the highest degree of journalistic professionalism and scrutiny.
Reports like these represent an anti-democratic abuse of the concept of China influence research, which denies agency to real Americans.
I can easily show that these reports are
1) junk quality, and
2) primarily motivated not by a desire to uncover China's influence (and thus to preserve the integrity of US civil society), but rather to delegitimize organic US movements (and thus to compromise the integrity of US civil society)
