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?
So the $14,850 that Chu’s campaign reportedly received from the chairman of one of the alleged CCP front groups is small potatoes.
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.
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.
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.”
Given that Democrats control the presidency and Senate, most other House Republicans who want to achieve bipartisan legislation on China, are treating the allegations against Ng and Chu with kid gloves, and not coming to Gooden’s defense.
Even Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), the Republican chair of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, who is arguably the most prominent China hawk in Congress, had to publicly twist himself into pretzels on the issue, while following the two-step of his Democrat ranking member, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.).
Conversely, Gallagher focused squarely on the issue of the CCP, where Democrats and Republicans could agree, starting with Chinese police stations around the world, including “in the heart of New York City.”
Krishnamoorthi then admitted that nonprofit organizations in the United States engage in espionage for the CCP, but did not draw a link back to the alleged CCP front groups with which Ng and Chu allegedly engaged. He then pivoted the conversation to the case of Chu—leaving out Ng, who is apparently too hot, or worthless politically, to defend. Chu is, after all, a vote in Congress. Ng is just a campaign donation of $135,500.
“One of my [Republican] colleagues unfortunately attacked Judy Chu, the first Chinese-American Congresswoman in the United States Congress, saying that somehow she’s not loyal to the United States,” Krishnamoorthi said. “I find that offensive as an Asian-American myself, and I want to hear Republicans also echo that sentiment that I just made because we have to make sure that in our conversations in the committee, we stay out of xenophobia, and we make sure that we keep the focus on the Chinese Communist Party.”
Krishnamoorthi did not explain how criticizing Chu, an American citizen, could be “xenophobia.” Implying that she is foreign by calling criticism of her “xenophobia,” or suggesting that she is beyond reproach due to her race, could both be considered racism. Neither did he explain how criticizing her engagement with a CCP-linked group is inconsistent with a focus on the CCP.
The CBS host, Margaret Brennan, swallowed the claim of xenophobia hook, line, and sinker, asking how the committee could ensure that its work was not distorted by bigotry. Again, there was no explanation of how Gooden’s opposition to engaging with the CCP, one of the most bigoted organizations in the world, was itself a form of bigotry.
Krishnamoorthi then again turned to Gallagher and goosed him to “echo my sentiments with regard to Judy Chu.” Krishnamoorthi said that the CCP wanted Congress to be fractious, so a united stand should be taken, by which he meant his own stand that papered over Chu’s engagement with organizations linked to the CCP.
Brennan then piled on, saying to Gallagher, “I think he asked you to call someone out,” apparently trying to spur Gallagher to denounce Gooden.
Gallagher should have said that he doesn’t “echo” anybody, and that he denounces all engagement with CCP front groups, including that of Chu and Ng, if that is indeed what they did. To ascertain the facts, they should both be investigated, along with Podesta and any members of the Biden, Trump, Bush, or Clinton families still doing business with China.
But instead, he partially complied. “We should not question anybody’s loyalty to the United States. I think that is out of bounds. It is beyond the pale.”
Humdrum. Business as usual. There’s nothing to see here.
The mainstream media quoted these first three apparently obligatory sentences of Gallagher’s widely, but omitted the on-air pressure tactics of Krishnamoorthi and Brennan. Neither did most media reproduce Gallagher’s next sentence, which saved his soul and gave credence to Lenczycki’s research in The Daily Caller.
“If there are concerns about a specific organization, and as a matter of fact the China Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification is tied, directly subordinate, to the United Front Work Department of the CCP, then we should work with our colleagues [e.g., Judy Chu] to apprise them that they may be targets for CCP United Front work, CCP influence. As a former counterintelligence officer, I can tell you we are a soft target in Congress. But absolutely, we shouldn’t question anybody’s loyalty.”
Gallagher is busy doing the yeoman’s work of burnishing the patina of bipartisanship that may hopefully result in bills emerging from the committee that can then pass muster in the Democratic Senate and presidency. Good for him.
But he should remember that, if Krishnamoorthi and Chu are any indication, the Democrats are simultaneously exacting their pound of flesh by using Republicans like himself to paper over soft-on-China failures of the past and present. From both parties, America will ultimately demand the simple truth, and full accountability, even of politicians and their donors.
