Billionaire Neville Roy Singham Funds CCP-Backed Effort to Rewrite WWII History, Undercut U.S. Victory and Promote Xi Jinping’s ‘New World Order’

WASHINGTON – Neville Roy Singham, the American billionaire and self-described Marxist who sold his IT consulting firm ThoughtWorks for nearly $785 million before relocating to Shanghai, has released a 174-page report and delivered a speech at a CCP-backed forum that explicitly calls for rewriting the history of World War II to diminish the United States’ and Allies’ contributions and advance Chinese President Xi Jinping’s vision of a “new world order” based on multilateralism.

The report, titled “80th Anniversary of the Victory of the World Anti-Fascist War: Acknowledging Who Truly Saved Human History and Restoring Historical Truth,” was published in November 2025 by the Singham-funded Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In a November 2025 speech at the Global South Academic Forum in Shanghai, Singham stated: “If we want to therefore have a new world order that is based on the multilateralism that President Xi and CPC and China have proposed, we have to undo the ideological damage that has been done by the narrative of World War II.” He described the Western account of the war as a “lie” and labeled the post-war international rules-based order as illegitimate.

Singham argued that fascism was defeated not by “Anglo-American capital” but by “socialist leadership and mass heroism” from the Soviet Union and Chinese Communists. He claimed the Soviet and Chinese peoples “paid in blood” while the West calculated economic advantage. The report and speech inflate the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) role in the war against Japan while downplaying the Nationalist forces under Chiang Kai-shek, who suffered the overwhelming majority of Chinese casualties.

The document excuses Stalin’s 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Hitler as a “necessary” response to Western “collusion,” despite the pact enabling the joint invasion and partition of Poland. It equates Winston Churchill morally with Adolf Hitler, calling Churchill’s policies “genocidal” toward communists and colonized peoples. Singham further asserts that the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 were aimed more at the Soviet Union than at a Japan that was already defeated.

These claims align with long-standing CCP historical narratives that portray the war as the “World Anti-Fascist War” and emphasize socialist victory over the liberal democratic order. Singham’s network, which includes the People’s Forum, Code Pink (co-founded by his wife Jodie Evans), and other far-left organizations, has received hundreds of millions of dollars from him since he began donating his fortune after selling ThoughtWorks. The groups have promoted pro-CCP messaging on issues ranging from foreign policy to domestic protests.

Singham’s operations in Shanghai include sharing office space with Maku Group, a media company that promotes positive images of China. He has attended CCP workshops and previously consulted for Huawei. Congressional investigators, including the House Oversight Committee, have subpoenaed Singham and sent letters to the DOJ, FBI, and IRS inquiring about potential Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) violations and whether his tax-exempt nonprofits should retain their status.

The effort is part of a broader pattern documented by the New York Times in 2023 and subsequent Fox News investigations, which traced Singham’s funding to dozens of organizations worldwide that echo Beijing’s talking points. Republican lawmakers, including Sens. Marco Rubio, Chuck Grassley, and Tom Cotton, have raised concerns that Singham’s activities constitute influence operations designed to sow discord in the United States and weaken its global standing.

Singham has not responded to requests for comment. His network continues to operate through U.S.-based nonprofits that enjoy tax-exempt status while advancing narratives that historians widely reject as distortions of the historical record. The push to reframe WWII serves the strategic goal of legitimizing Xi’s push for a multipolar world that displaces American leadership, as outlined in U.S. intelligence assessments of CCP ambitions.