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The latest shock of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence in the United States is photographic evidence of Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) published in a Daily Caller series. The photos show her associating with two CCP-linked organizations. Rather than ask Chu to correct herself, the Democrats are as usual, claiming racism.
Remember, the CCP is an anti-American totalitarian party engaged in a widely recognized genocide against China’s own minority groups. Why in the world would a U.S. politician get anywhere near them? How is supporting the party of genocide, the CCP, not one of the worst forms of racism?
Granted, U.S. politicians with ties to foreign governments are nothing new. These include family financial links to authoritarian states that are becoming normalized in U.S. politics, including Biden family links to China, Trump family and campaign official links to Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia, and Clinton and Bush family links to China. Jointly, these ties involve the transfer of billions of dollars.
So the $14,850 that Chu’s campaign reportedly received from the chairman of one of the alleged CCP front groups is small potatoes.
But still, the principle of transparency should require Chu’s public acceptance of responsibility and apology for engaging with these groups, rather than thinly-evidenced allegations of racism against those who reported it (and similar charges against a non-Chinese White House official named John Podesta).
Arguably, it is more racist to engage with an organization linked to genocide than to criticize such engagement, even if the criticism is sometimes a bit ham-fisted.
Not criticizing links to genocidal organizations could itself be considered racist. Wanton allegations of racism to paper over yet worse racism is a form of racism in and of itself.
But all this is lost on Democrats and their too often resort to the everything-is-racism bullhorn.
Philip Lenczycki, a former professor of Mandarin and East Asian civilizations, who spent approximately six years in China, authored the Daily Caller series on the CCP links of Chu and Dominic Ng, President Joe Biden’s appointee to the Asia–Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Advisory Council.
Lenczycki’s meticulously documented and carefully worded articles have gotten the attention of Congress, though the Democrats are doing their best to discredit them, while ignoring the author’s credentials and the considerable evidence he marshals.
Several House Republicans, led by Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas), are taking the research seriously, and called on the FBI to investigate Ng. (Gooden previously called for the removal of the security clearance of Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) for his past link to an alleged Chinese spy, so despite what the Democrats say, Chinese heritage is clearly not the issue.)
Gooden said that the Democrat response to criticism of Ng, including from Chu, was to wrongly claim racism. He questioned her “loyalty or competence,” saying she should not have a security clearance or get confidential intelligence briefings “until this is figured out.
