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🚨🇨🇳 BREAKING: Suspected Soros’ agent exposed by Chinese netizens

The individual exposed by Chinese netizens, suspected of being commissioned by George Soros to promote LGBT and the MeToo movement in China, is named Darius Longarino.

He is a Senior Fellow at Yale’s Paul Tsai China Center, focusing on LGBT-related issues in China. He is also a typical China watcher, frequently commenting on topics such as Xinjiang and Hong Kong.

Before becoming a Senior Fellow at Yale, DL spent nearly five years in China, where he became fluent in Mandarin and, thanks to his work with the American Bar Association, built an extensive network within China’s legal community.

According to his resume, during his time in China he had already begun promoting LGBT, at a time when the concept was still largely unfamiliar to most Chinese people.

Chinese netizens discovered that, in addition, DL had been working since 2010 with Asia Catalyst—an organization funded by the NED and the Open Society Foundations—helping NGOs in China connect with overseas sponsors.

These organizations included Yirenping, where DL had previously worked. Yirenping was shut down by the Chinese government in 2015, with several of its leaders placed on wanted lists or arrested.

How was DL exposed? This traces back to a MeToo incident in China in 2023: at Wuhan University, a female postgraduate student—suspected of being affiliated with a radical feminist group—secretly filmed several clips in the library showing a freshman scratching himself under the desk. She then accused the student of masturbating in front of her and claimed it constituted sexual harassment.

The case triggered widespread controversy in China. In June 2024, the woman involved formally filed a lawsuit, and in July 2025 the court ruled against her.

The case once again drew public attention, and netizens discovered that her attorney, Ding Yaqing, is an activist who works with LGBT NGOs and has long maintained a cooperative relationship with DL. In 2020, with Ding’s assistance, DL completed a report for Outright International on LGBT issues in China.

More importantly, in June 2025, while the court was delaying its ruling on the case, DL suddenly traveled to China and delivered lectures on sexual harassment at several universities.

The universities he visited included the University of Hong Kong, Central South University, Zhejiang University, China University of Political Science and Law, and Renmin University.

News of DL’s visit, once exposed, sparked public outrage: feminist scholars were accused of inviting an anti-China scholar to intervene in the judicial process.

However, some legal professionals argued that DL’s trip to China was not merely a matter of being invited.

First, in the 2024 report on LGBT issues in China authored by DL for Outright International, he noted that overseas funding would flow to LGBT activists in China through the channel of academic cooperation.

This has raised concerns that all universities maintaining collaboration with DL could potentially become covert conduits for the inflow of foreign funds.

Second, since 2020, DL has co-authored papers with several Chinese scholars—including his primary collaborator, Liu Xiaonan, a Chinese scholar who previously conducted a visiting fellowship at the Paul Tsai China Center—addressing campus sexual harassment.

In these publications he altered the definition of sexual harassment. He mistranslated the Davis v. Monroe County decision, omitting the condition that harassment between peers must have severe consequences to qualify as actionable, and thereby cited the case as evidence that any unwelcome conduct between peers constitutes sexual harassment.

This research appeared to provide legal justification for the Wuhan University campus MeToo case. Consequently, netizens argued that the case was orchestrated by an unknown foreign power and executed by members of radical feminist NGOs within China.

What is even more intriguing is that Liu Xiaonan has been conducting research on anti-discrimination law since 2009. Her projects have received substantial funding from the Ford Foundation, totaling over $800,000.

Following the public exposure of DL, the Ford Foundation urgently disabled the search function on its website, making it no longer possible to access records of its grants online.

In a 2012 research report published by Liu, data from the Yirenping projects—on which DL had participated—were extensively included. This indicates that the collaborative relationship between Liu Xiaonan and DL can be traced back at least to 2010.

With the recent exposure of events, it has been discovered that DL has played a suspicious role in a series of MeToo incidents in China since 2019. DL’s recent frequent activities suggest that the masterminds behind him aim to sabotage Sino-U.S. trade negotiations.

They allegedly seek to broaden the legal definition of sexual harassment to lay the groundwork for orchestrating a new wave of MeToo incidents, instructing members of clandestine feminist NGOs within China to falsely accuse specific officials of sexual harassment, with the goal of replacing key personnel and undermining important outcomes of Sino-U.S. trade talks. Having long maintained interpersonal networks in China prior to 2016, they still retain a number of collaborators within the country.

However, due to the recklessness of this recent operation and the vigilance of Chinese netizens, the Chinese government has already uncovered their intentions, and their collaborators in China now face severe consequences.