PARIS, France—Courbevoie mayor Jacques Kossowski was a happy man on Jan. 15, 2022. “My Santa Claus was very kind to me,” he said with a smile as he and his wife were being interviewed by NTD after the Shen Yun show at the Palais des Congrès in Paris. The mayor had granted himself two hours of escape to discover the 5,000 years of traditional Chinese culture presented by Shen Yun, a New York-based classical Chinese dance company whose international tours spark joy in audiences each year. As the mayor of Courbevoie for 27 years, Mr. Kossowski paid tribute to the divinely inspired values of ancient China, which are central throughout Shen Yun’s program. It is “a pity that Shen Yun cannot be performed in China,” he said, alluding to the fact that despite being the premiere Chinese culture stage performance in the world, its outspoken advocacy of human rights has …