B.L.A.

For instance, after the F.B.I. found a mailing address associated with Franklin in a 1973 review of documents obtained from the Black Liberation Army, an anticapitalist group that embraced “armed struggle,” it stated: “The significance or association of Franklin to the B.L.A. is not known to this bureau.”

In 2018, B.L.A. militants killed four people in an attack on the Chinese consulate in Karachi, and in 2020 the group mounted an assault on the Pakistan Stock Exchange in Karachi, which is 40 percent owned by Chinese investors, killing three people.

Last August, a B.L.A. suicide bomber killed two children in an attack on Chinese nationals in Gwadar.

The B.L.A. called the institute a “symbol of Chinese economic, cultural and political expansionism.”

After the Chinese consulate attack in 2018, a suicide bomber killed the B.L.A. commander and several associates — not in Pakistan, but in Kandahar, Afghanistan.