Pro-China protesters interrupted a congressional hearing on March 22, shouting over Senators and demanding that the United States soften its stance on China’s communist regime and abandon its commitment to arming Ukraine.
Several protesters brandished signs throughout a meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, with some periodically standing and shouting over the Senators until being removed by police.
“China is not our enemy,” shouted one protester, while another accused the United States of “terrorism” and called Russia’s attempted conquest of Ukraine a “proxy war.”
The protesters’ signs said they were aligned with Code Pink, a 20-year-old leftist organization that advertises itself as feminism-centered but primarily interrupts U.S. government proceedings and promotes messages favoring authoritarian powers including China and Russia while discouraging U.S. interventionism….