Xiong Yan, currently running for Congress in New York’s 10th Congressional District, accuses China’s consulate in New York of “deeply interfering with the U.S. election.” Xiong said that the United States government should shut it down.
Xiong is a retired major who served in the U.S. Army for 27 years and a Protestant chaplain. Before coming to the United States he was a student leader of the peaceful protest for democracy held on Tiananmen Square, Beijing, in 1989 before  it was violently crushed by the Chinese regime.
Xiong was holding an election campaign in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, on July 24. He told the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times on that day that many people had informed him of China’s consulate ordering Chinese expatriates to not support his campaign. He said the recent interference was not the first of this kind during his campaign….