Webinar | The State Department Illuminates How “Code Pink” is Actually Code Red, February 13, 2026

 

Webinar | The State Department Illuminates How “Code Pink” is Actually Code Red              

Published On: February 13, 2026

 

A CPDC WEBINAR

The State Department Illuminates How “Code Pink” is Actually Code Red;

New Report Documents C.C.P. Role in Domestic Left’s Subversion

Friday, February 13, 2026
12:00–1:30 p.m. ET

FULL TRANSCRIPT

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A report released by the U.S. State Department this week makes clear that our mortal enemy, the Chinese Communist Party, is directly underwriting and otherwise enabling internal strife, divisions and subversion in America. Entitled  Countering Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, this new analysis documents how radical leftist organizations like Code Pink and People’s Forum are paid to advance the priorities of the CCP’s United Front Work Department – a key element of the “elite capture” and other influence operations that are, in turn, among the most effective weapons employed as part of PRC “Unrestricted Warfare” aimed at taking down the USA.

The report was presented publicly by Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers. Highlights of her statement reported by the New York Post included the following points:

• “Partisan hacks spent years peddling the phony Russia collusion hoax while turning a blind eye to the sprawling web of far-left activist organizations who push the agendas of the Chinese Communist Party,”
• “Organizations like Code Pink and the People’s Forum denigrate the United States, whitewash the violence of Marxist regimes, and run cover for China while enjoying an influx of cash from a donor network with connections to the Chinese Communist Party,”
• “The State Department will pursue complete transparency for the donor and NGO networks that lobby for our adversaries and seek to weaken the resolve of the United States.”

The Post also noted that:

The report alleges that China “spreads propaganda through influence campaigns run by nonprofit organizations like Code Pink, the People’s Forum and groups linked with the notorious Singham network.” The so-called “Singham network” are nonprofits funded by tech mogul Neville Roy Singham, whose wife is a co-founder of Code Pink.

Singham, an American expat living in China, “works closely with the Chinese government media machine and is financing its propaganda worldwide,” the New York Times reported in 2023.

“Chinese diplomats, state media, and pro-China influencers use social media, content-sharing agreements, and local partnerships to publish pro-CCP propaganda,” the report continues. “China invests in [public diplomacy], exchanges, reporting tours, and educational and cultural initiatives to boost its image.”

“The Department assesses that China, Iran, and aggressively use state media, proxies, and digital platforms to spread propaganda and falsehoods, undermine U.S. credibility and policies, and expand their influence.”

The nonprofit peddles its pro-China talking points through its “China Is Not Our Enemy” working group, according to the State Department.

This CPDC webinar addresses this and other aspects of the CCP’s political warfare against the United States and its vital interests. These include: Chinese infiltration, corruption and subversion on Central Pacific islands; the PRC’s weaponization of TikTok to collect personal information about and brainwash over a hundred million American users; its Thousand Talents recruitment program; Confucius Institutes still doing business under other names; attacks on Shen Yun dance company and othe Falun Gong practitioners and enterprises in the U.S.; and making common cause with jihadists who share the CCP’s ambition to destroy the United States – if not its preferred new world order that would emerge from America’s ashes.

Moderator

• Frank Gaffney, President, Institute for the American Future; Vice Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China; Member, Victory Coalition; host, “Securing America”

Panelists:

• Capt. James Fanell, U.S. Navy, (Ret.), Former Chief of Intelligence and Information Operations, U.S. Pacific Fleet; Senior Fellow, Geneva Center or Security Policy; co-author, Embracing Communist China: America’s Greatest Strategic Failure
• Jan Jekielek, Editor, Epoch Times; host, “American Thought Leaders” author, Killed to Order
• Grant Newsham, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.), Former Military Attaché in Embassy Tokyo; former Foreign Service Officer; longtime business executive in the Western Pacific; Author, “When China Attacks: A Warning to America”
• Cleo Paskal, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Indo-Pacific at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies; consultant, Network for Strategic Analysis; board member, International Board of Advisors of the Global Counter-Terrorism Council; taught at Defense Colleges in the United Kingdom, India and Oman (Invited)
• John Lenczowski, Ph.D., Founder, President Emeritus, and Chancellor of The Institute of World Politics; former Special Advisor for the U.S. State Department in the Bureau of European Affairs (1981 to 1983); former Director of European and Soviet Affairs in Reagan’s National Security Council (1983-1987); author, “Full-Spectrum Diplomacy and Grand Strategy” (2011)
• George Rasley, Esq., Editor-in-Chief, Richard Viguerie’s Conservative HQ; former Senate and House staff member; former Vice-Presidential aide; veteran of some 300 election campaigns
• Brian T. Kennedy, President, the American Strategy Group; former President, the Claremont Institute; author of, among other works, Communist China’s War Inside America