Pro-China network stages coordinated protests as Trump prepares Xi talks

As two of the world's most powerful leaders sat down to negotiate the terms of a fraught relationship, a web of activist organizations — bound by shared funding and synchronized messaging — filled American streets with protest. The network, traced to tech entrepreneur Neville Roy Singham and his $285 million in channeled contributions, raised a question as old as statecraft itself: when dissent is coordinated from the outside, does it still belong to the people? Lawmakers and federal investigators are now asking whether what appeared to be the organic voice of civil society was, in fact, a car