According to the sources, Xi chastised the officials, saying their previous efforts to suppress Falun Gong overseas were ineffective, and ordered a new campaign that would focus on the most prominent companies started by Falun Gong practitioners abroad. Those include Shen Yun Performing Arts, a premier classical Chinese dance and music company that puts on hundreds of performances a year under the tagline “China before communism,” as well as several media companies, including The Epoch Times and NTD.

A man looks at his phone near a giant image of the CCP flag on the side of a building in Beijing, during the ongoing 19th Communist Party Congress, on Oct. 23, 2017. GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images