- Thursday, February 27, 2025
According to Roy Singham’s associates, the former has long admired the communist ideology of Maoism that is behind the rise of modern China, the New York Times reported.
By: Shubham Ghosh
IN a sensational revelation, an investigation carried out by The New York Times has said that Neville Roy Singham, a US-born millionaire, has been accused of funding a financial network to push Chinese propaganda globally.
The charismatic 69-year-old business, who according to the Times, is known as a socialist benefactor of far-left causes, is the founder and chairman of ThoughtWorks, an information technology firm that works on custom software, software tools and consulting services.
“What is less known, and is hidden amid a tangle of nonprofit groups and shell companies, is that Mr. Singham works closely with the Chinese government media machine and is financing its propaganda worldwide,” the Times report said.
Roy Singham is the son of Sri Lankan political scientist and historian Archibald Wickremaraja Singham who the Times called a “leftist academic”.
According to Roy Singham’s associates, the former has long admired the communist ideology of Maoism that is behind the rise of modern China, the Times report said. He also praised Venezuela under the leadership of late president Hugo Chavez as a “phenomenally democratic place”. He also opined a decade before shifting to China that the world could learn from China’s governing approach, the American newspaper added.
The western-educated Roy Singham currently sits in Shanghai.
The Times report said that from a thinktank in Massachusetts to an event space in Manhattan to a political party in South Africa to news companies in India and Brazil, hundreds of millions of dollars were tracked to groups linked to the businessman that “mix progressive advocacy with Chinese government talking points”.
The news website that Roy Singham allegedly financed in India has sprinkled its coverage with China talking points. The site was raided by the authorities.
He financed a news website in India too that sprinkled its coverage with Chinese government talking points, as per the NYT report. The site was raided by authorities in India.
According to the Times, Roy Singham, who married Jodie Evans, a former political adviser to the US’s Democratic Party, in 2017, said in an email, “I categorically deny and repudiate any suggestion that I am a member of, work for, take orders from, or follow instructions of any political party or government or their representatives. I am solely guided by my beliefs, which are my long-held personal views.”
The report also said that the propaganda groups that allegedly work for his agenda are funded through American nonprofits.
