In the latest issue of National Review, I have a piece on the assaults carried out by pro-CCP mobs in San Fransisco during Xi Jinping’s visit to the city for a summit in November:

At a ritzy gala at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco on November 15, a crowd that included America’s top business leaders twice gave Xi Jinping a standing ovation as he delivered a speech full of reassurances about his fine intentions and the state of the ailing Sino–U.S. relationship.

Next door, from the fourth floor of a parking garage, a group of masked thugs came close to killing five Tibetan activists. “Before the secret entities and the clearly pro-CCP — and what looked like a bunch of trained — men, before they came in and ambushed us and stole our banner from the fifth floor, they actually started from the fourth floor and started pulling on the banner,” said Chemi Lhamo, an activist with the group Students for a Free Tibet. She told me that she and others lost their balance and almost fell off the side of the garage. Fifteen masked men who “really marched like a unit” then came up to the fifth floor and attacked them.

It’s truly astonishing that people affiliated with a foreign authoritarian adversary are organizing public demonstrations on U.S. soil, much less carrying out assaults on Beijing’s opponents in a major American city. Read more here, and check out my previous reporting on the topic.