Now that Trump seems to be increasingly aggressive against China, why are Chinese Trump supporters still defending him?
source: Quora Tom McGregor's Column
I would like to clarify this question by citing Chinese-American voters, who strongly support United States President Donald J. Trump, rather than refer to Chinese citizens here. That’s because I will go ahead to assume that the Chinese are patriots if they are Chinese passport holders.
One would expect a Chinese patriot to express concerns over Trump’s tough tactics on trade talks with Beijing. Hence, if they claim to support the current US President, they might make sarcastic remarks.
So let’s go ahead and address Chinese-Americans, who hold US passports, therefore more supportive of USA than their native country. There’s nothing wrong with such notions, because your heart is wherever your real home is.
Trump can lay claim to having an enthusiastic fan-base of Chinese-Americans, who not only endorse his policies, including building a big and beautiful wall on the US-Mexico border and make Mexico pay for it, but also on issues of lower taxes, fewer business regulations, as well as his trade policies, such implementing higher tariffs on imports from China.
I should know, because a few Chinese-Americans have contacted me personally to request I join their WeChat groups, so we can re-post links to positive news about President Trump in the White House.
My good friend, Jianyu Hou, a Chinese native, who moved to Cleveland, OH a few years ago, has become a leading member of the Chinese-American voters’ Trump support network.
She had even opened a Website, Get Real America, to inspire more Chinese-Americans to donate, volunteer and support Trump’s Republican Party. You can review her Website with a link here:
https://www.getrealamerica.org/
As reported by Get Real America:
“About 100 parents, largely of Chinese-American descent, gathered on a recent Saturday afternoon inside an elementary school near Washington, D.C., to hear Heritage Foundation scholar Michael Gonzalez speak against racial preferences in school admissions.
Gonzalez, a senior fellow in the leading conservative think tank’s Davis Institute for International Studies who has written on the subject, delved into the roots of the affirmative action crisis that has frustrated many Asian-Americans for years.”
Additionally during the 2016 US Elections, she penned a commentary for 央视网Panview about getting married to a Trump supporter as her husband Jason celebrated their wedding ceremony on the same day he voted for Trump at the Ohio Primaries. The link is here:
http://english.cctv.com/2016/03/...
According to 央视网 Panview:
“Some who portray Trump as the next Hitler have encouraged others to assassinate him. In a democracy, if citizens don't like a candidate they can vote for another candidate, but assassins destroy electoral freedom.
On our wedding day, after Jason voted for Trump, we both wanted to celebrate. So, we took a picture holding a banner that read, 'Donald Trump: Make America Great Again,' but two young men yelled at us.
We ignored them because we didn't want to have a conflict on our wedding day. Yet, we felt threatened for taking a political stance, and that's not how America is supposed to be.”
But Mrs. Hou is just one of many fervent supporters of Trump. There’s a group called CAFT (Chinese-Americans for Trump). The Website Newsy features CAFT’s founder David Wang in a link here:
https://www.10news.com/newsy/thi...
News reports that:
“Another issue Wang blames Democrats for is what he calls 'racism in the name of affirmative action.' The Chinese immigrant says such policies often discriminate against Asian-Americans in order to give preferential treatment to other minorities. Mentioning a defeated California bill that would have lifted the ban in public colleges on the use of race in recruitment, Wang said affirmative action makes it harder for Asian students to get into college. The topic has long divided the Asian-American community.”
So as we can see for ourselves, the Chinese diaspora demonstrates the rich diversity of American politics. Despite what happens with the outcome of US-China trade negotiations, you can anticipate a high number of Chinese-Americans to cast their ballots for Trump in his re-election bid for the White House in 2020.
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