The dance group has exploited its young performers while amassing huge wealth for the Falun Gong religious movement — and getting a publicity boost from The Epoch Times.

A publisher that rose to prominence promoting right-wing conspiracy theories has also served as sword and shield for the dance group and the religious movement behind it.

The dance group has accumulated enormous wealth, in large part by getting followers of the Falun Gong religious movement to work for free and pay its bills.