MANHATTAN, New York—Hundreds paraded in lower Manhattan through one of America’s oldest Chinese communities to protest ongoing abuses in communist China that the international community has described as “crimes against humanity.”
It marked the first time in almost five years the participants were back to Chinatown, the lively New York City neighorhood packed with bubble tea shops, bakeries, and markets selling everything from dried fish to spices. Prior requests since 2017 had been repeatedly turned down, which, the event organizers suspect, were in part the result of Beijing’s influence.
The event, according to organizers, served a dual purpose: to put pressure on the Chinese communist regime that has been arresting and torturing faith adherents, while raising awareness about these violations among the Chinese diaspora….