The No Cold War group is part of a lavishly funded influence campaign that defends China and pushes its propaganda, an investigation by The New York Times has found. At the center is a charismatic American millionaire, Neville Roy Singham.
In July 2018, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), during an investigation, found that the leftist-propaganda website NewsClick (active in India) received
In 2021, a news portal in India was under scanner for allegedly having ties to the Chinese government. Now, a New York Times investigation has unearthed a network of activists groups, nonprofit organisations, shell companies, and their close ties to Chinese propaganda.