"Every Saturday, a mysterious old man would dart into the Brown bookstore, steal fresh piles of Dajiyuan, a Chinese newspaper critical of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and trash them in the bookstore’s bin. A Brown student who distributes the free publication, discovered the thief on the bookstore’s security camera.
On March 7, seven squad cars surrounded an old man in Los Angeles for systematically stealing Dajiyuan. Police had long observed him driving to major distribution areas and absconding with the papers.
Last fall in Flushing, New York, Australian practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual movement, which the CCP censures as a cult, also reported the sabotage of Dajiyuan. There, the papers had been stolen and thrown into the streets.
There is no obvious answer for why someone would methodically destroy this Chinese newspaper. What was Brown’s campus interloper thinking? Beyond the instinctual responses of racism or derangement lies an explanation that is more outlandish but, perhaps, accurate: he may be a secret agent employed by the Chinese government, with a mission to destroy newspapers that spread anti-CCP messages."
--The College Hill Indy, March 17 issue.

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