PHILADELPHIA—The recent threats targeting Shen Yun Performing Arts are “absolutely abhorrent,” political expert Mark Thomas said.
Thomas, assistant professor at the Department of Political Science and Economics at La Salle University in Philadelphia, condemned the Chinese regime’s actions against the New York-based performing arts company.
Thomas has seen Shen Yun’s performances and described them as “very peaceful” and “very healing.”
“I know that the Chinese government is very much opposed to it,” he said. “The bomb threats that China did against the Kennedy Center … are just absolutely abhorrent.
“And whether it’s directly through the Chinese government, through the MSS, or the PLA, or somebody, they co-opted to do it,” he added, referring to China’s Ministry of State Security and the People’s Liberation Army….