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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

Per the Radio Free Asia article: Link above

“According to reports, the Second Department of the General Staff of the People’s Liberation Army recruited people from a major Internet company, used false identities to go to the Houston consulate, used the background data of a major audio-visual platform in the powerful country to assist BLM and ANTIFA, and sent “tailor-made” to African Americans. A promotional video for the riot organization; in a word, it is to “weaponize” big data. In short, what a rumor, believe it or not!

The “benefits” of using big data to incite riots is that it can accurately target and promote relevant information to the people most likely to participate in the riots. Most people who want to search cannot find these short videos; this trick is highly concealed, and it is said that the FBI was initially deceived. In the dark, but there was a rumor that some people in the consulate wanted to make a change and told the FBI about the top secret. As for the follow-up development including closing the embassy and dealing with TikTok (TikTok International Edition), everyone knows. The two events of “closing the consulate” and “investigating TikTok” seem to be unrelated, but they may actually be the same thing!”