BPI Research Chief Tells Congress China-Linked Campaigns Blocked $23.6 Billion in US AI Projects

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Sam Lyman, head of research at the Bitcoin Policy Institute, testified Tuesday before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on South and Central Asia that his research tracked 21 China-linked campaigns across 14 states that helped stall or block $23.6 billion in proposed U.S. AI infrastructure. The hearing, titled "Trojan Horses: Covert Foreign Malign Influence Operations in America," was presided over by Subcommittee Chairman Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., and examined how foreign adversaries use nonprofits, activist networks, and foreign state media to shape American public opinion. Lyman's testimony drew on two reports he authored this year for BPI, "Foreign Influence in the Campaign Against American AI," which document three vectors of influence: Chinese state media and bot networks pushing content against U.S. data centers to American audiences, U.S. nonprofits funded by Shanghai-based Marxist Neville Roy Singham, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a Marxist-Leninist group whose leadership is drawn from Singham-funded organizations. The research tracked 21 PSL campaigns across 14 states that contributed to 10 data center moratoria, one permanent ban and four rejected or scrapped projects, together delaying, scaling back or blocking roughly $23.6 billion in proposed AI infrastructure investment. Lyman told lawmakers that opposition to data centers is not manufactured wholesale, saying "two things can be true at once" and that Americans have genuine concerns about the data center buildout that need to be heard. As reported by CBS News, a federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York is investigating whether Singham violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act, unlawfully funneled money through nonprofits he controls, or made false statements on those nonprofits' tax filings; organizations in the network have denied wrongdoing.

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