WASHINGTON—Shen Yun Performing Arts is calling for an investigation a day after bomb threats prompted an evacuation of the Kennedy Center on the group’s opening night.
It was the latest in a litany of threats the company has faced over the past year as it sets off on a global tour to showcase what it describes as “China before communism.”
Numerous emails, many of them in Chinese, have been adopting an increasingly provocative tone, threatening violence toward theater, the arts group’s New York headquarters, and lately, lawmakers and officials.
“It’s basically targeting the entire U.S. government, society, and everything that we stand for,” Leeshai Lemish, emcee for Shen Yun, told The Epoch Times….