The American political tradition is not communist. It is anti-totalitarian. So we don’t expect our political leaders to cozy up to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
One would never want the mayor of Podunk, let alone New York City, to attend a flag-raising ceremony to celebrate the 74th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, a brutal totalitarian dictatorship.
But that’s just what New York City Mayor Eric Adams did on October 1.
Now, Adams didn’t tell the Chinese Communist Party officials and others attending what a fan he is of the Chinese government’s wide-scale and unrelenting repression and murder, but his very presence implied acceptance of the Chinazi regime: Hey, you made it. Seventy-four years! Good for you guys.
A CCP-PRC ceremony conducted to commemorate the CCP founding of the PRC is not about being nice to Chinese people or celebrating a vague diversity. If you go there in an official capacity to glad hand Chinazi officials and wave the U.S. flag along with the Chinese flag, you are sanctioning the Chinazi regime. You’re telling everybody — everybody too busy to read news or history or investigative reports — that these rulers aren’t so bad.
“That flag is a flag of repression,” says Chinese dissident Zhou Fengsuo. “It’s the CCP flag of China. The day when they killed many of my compatriots on Tiananmen Square . . . that’s the flag they raised there to show their victory over peaceful people.”
Adams has provided another propaganda coup for the CCP, which enjoys racking them up.
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In 2022, 310,000 middle and upper middle class tech professionals left China permanently, despite state imposed travel and passport restrictions. This is not as great a negative impact on China’s future as the US allowing millions of unskilled and uneducated immigrants to enter illegally, but it will be a close second. Sadly, most of those trained desirable Chinese are not coming to America.
Good to know. I don’t know this guy but he’s probably just ignorant. Just guessing. I think the Chinese American population is pretty thoroughly peppered with CCP activists.