SAN FRANCISCO—Free hotel, free flight, free food. The Chinese Consulate hasn’t been tightfisted when it comes to its communist leader’s first visit to the United States in six years. Greeters for Xi Jinping’s arrival in San Francisco pocketed as much as $200 along with an all-expense-covered trip that brought some of them from the other side of the coast, according to some participants, observers, and screenshots of social media conversations leading up to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Many pro-Beijing protesters donned red caps or uniforms while waving red flags, saturating the blockaded streets with the color closely associated with communism. At least one person—a woman donning a black dress who was eating a boxed lunch while standing with her back against a building wall—was carrying a red tote bag, which suggests that she has ties to the Chinese Consulate in New York, according to a dissident who had trailed them....Read more https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/chinese-consulate-pays-protesters-to-welcome-communist-leader-in-san-francisco-5530214