Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans — wife of wealthy Marxist businessman Neville Roy Singham — hosted a Zoom call on Jan. 28 to recruit roughly 50 Americans for pro-CCP themed trips to China, organized in collaboration with the Shanghai-based China Academy. The meeting, billed as a "China Community Trip Interest Meeting," was open to the public and attended by Just the News.
The pitch was brazen. Evans steered prospective travelers toward trips called "Red China" and "Iconic China" — 12-day, 11-night excursions through Shanghai, Chongqing, and Zunyi. She called China a "wonderland of socialist expression" and described the trip as a "history lesson," not "indoctrination." She even referenced "flossing your brain."
This was not a casual travel webinar. It was a carefully organized effort to bring Americans into a CCP-friendly narrative pipeline — and it happened the same day Code Pink activists disrupted a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing featuring Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Evans wasn't operating alone. Mimi Zhu, part of the China Academy and Wave Media in Shanghai, spoke at length about trip logistics and itineraries. Zhu, host of the "Roughly Chinese Pod" podcast, described her personal political transformation and referred to trip participants as "comrades." She said the trip's goal included "debunking myths" about China and referred to America as "the belly of the beast."
Kurt Pierce, who appears to be an official part of Code Pink's campaign, described his November 2024 trip to China:
Kind of a life-changing experience.
Tighe Barry, a longtime Code Pink protester, sought to downplay the CCP's treatment of Uyghurs during the call. Evans cheerfully acknowledged his work earlier that day:
Good job in Congress today, Tighe!
That congressional "good job" was the disruption of Rubio's hearing. Protest one arm of the U.S. government in the morning, recruit Americans for CCP tourism in the afternoon. Busy day.
None of this exists in a vacuum. Evans married Singham in 2017 — the same year he sold his tech company ThoughtWorks. The proceeds from that sale have funded what investigators describe as a sprawling network of communist activist organizations and pro-CCP news outlets. Singham lives and works in Shanghai. Others in his network call him "Comrade."
The China Academy, which co-organized the trips Evans was promoting, claims over 150 million subscribers across Chinese social media. Its contributor list reads like a roster of authoritarian apologists:
Evans herself co-authored a 2025 book titled China Is Not Our Enemy with Mikaela Nhondo Erskog, who has written for the Singham-linked People's Dispatch and serves as associate editor at Tricontinental. The branding is consistent. The message is consistent. The funding sources are consistent.
Three U.S. senators have now formally demanded the Department of Justice investigate Code Pink's relationship with the CCP. In March 2025, Sen. Jim Banks wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi calling for an inquiry into potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. In April, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley sent his own letter to Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, raising whether both Code Pink and The People's Forum should be required to register under FARA.
Then in November 2025, Sen. Tom Cotton escalated further — requesting a DOJ investigation not only for potential FARA violations but for material support to foreign terrorist organizations. Cotton's letter stated that Code Pink has received $1.4 million from Singham-linked sources since 2017, representing roughly 25% of the organization's total funding.
The House has moved too. The House Oversight Committee voted last month to subpoena Singham for information about his activist network. Last week, the House Ways and Means Committee sent letters demanding information from the Singham-linked People's Forum and BreakThrough News. A State Department report titled "Countering Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference" reportedly identified Code Pink, the People's Forum, and groups linked to Singham's network as vectors of Chinese propaganda.
Congressional investigators, the State Department, and the DOJ are all now looking at the same constellation of organizations. The walls are tightening.
Code Pink's defense is a masterclass in doublespeak. Campaign coordinator Megan Russell stated in April 2025:
Code Pink is in no way funded by China, nor any other foreign government or agency.
Evans herself, at a September 2025 webinar, offered this:
This is not a pro-China campaign — it is a campaign to get in the way of the war the U.S. wants to wage on China.
Not pro-China. Just organizing trips called "Red China." Just calling the country a "wonderland of socialist expression." Just publishing books titled China Is Not Our Enemy. Just working alongside a Shanghai-based academy staffed by CCP-linked military strategists and state media editors. Just married to a man who lives in Shanghai, funds communist organizations, and is known as "Comrade" within the network.
Singham himself denied any direct CCP connection in a statement to The Hindu in October 2023, claiming he does not work for, take instruction from, or receive funding from the Chinese government. Evans shared the denial on Twitter. Congressional investigators appear unconvinced.
One of the more revealing moments on the Jan. 28 call was Barry's attempt to downplay the CCP's treatment of Uyghurs. This tracks with Code Pink's broader pattern. In November 2023, activist Dee Knight wrote pieces for Code Pink titled "Traveling to Prove China is Not Our Enemy" and "Eyewitness Xinjiang" — the latter an effort to counter well-documented reports of mass detention and repression. Knight also asserted that "Taiwan is part of China" and framed the United States as "invaders" during the Korean War.
This is the ideological ecosystem these trips feed into. It's not tourism. It's narrative laundering — Americans sent through a curated experience designed to produce testimonials that align with CCP messaging. Pierce came back calling it "life-changing." The China Academy calls participants "comrades." The trips visit CCP historical sites. The "Red China" trip isn't subtle about what it's selling.
The congressional subpoenas, DOJ referrals, and State Department findings are converging at the same moment Evans is openly recruiting new travelers. Historians estimate Mao was responsible for over 70 million deaths in peacetime. That's the regime whose legacy these trips celebrate under the banner of cultural exchange.
Evans, Code Pink, and the China Academy did not respond to requests for comment from Just the News. Their silence speaks in a register their webinars don't.
Meanwhile, Yu Faxiang — the Chinese businessman who founded the tourism company Sunriver — was reportedly detained in China in a criminal investigation in December. The CCP's hospitality toward its own partners, it turns out, has limits. Americans signing up for these trips should take note.
Three senators. Two House committees. The State Department. The FBI. All are asking the same question about the same network. Code Pink keeps calling it a peace campaign. Congress is calling it something else entirely.
