Overview
- Newsweek reported reviewing dozens of internal documents dating to 2021 that detail DSA-related meetings and materials for China trips focused on outreach framed as anti-imperialism.
- Meeting minutes show participants urging avoidance of topics sensitive to Beijing, including Taiwan, Hong Kong and abuses of Uyghur Muslims, while pursuing contacts linked to China’s ruling party.
- An activist quoted in Oct. 8 meeting minutes said “China wants to interface with the DSA” and discussed building connections with the Communist Party of China.
- Chinese officials did not attend the U.S.-based meetings but met participants in China, including during an August 2025 visit to Guizhou hosted by a Communist Party school, with the Chinese Embassy calling such interactions local exchanges.
- Newsweek said neither Mamdani’s City Hall nor the DSA International Committee responded to inquiries, and separate reporting described internal dissent within DSA over China-focused messaging and political education seminars.