New: Senator Chuck Schumer waved the People's Republic of China flag onstage at a Lunar New Year event on Sunday.
He and other top New York politicians appeared onstage at a rally, preceding an annual parade in Manhattan’s Chinatown, alongside Huang Ping, a hard-line Chinese ambassador who publicly denies Beijing’s human-rights abuses, and Wu Xiaoming, a senior consular official linked to China’s secret police station in New York.
Read more at @NRO (link below):
He and other top New York politicians appeared onstage at a rally, preceding an annual parade in Manhattan’s Chinatown, alongside Huang Ping, a hard-line Chinese ambassador who publicly denies Beijing’s human-rights abuses, and Wu Xiaoming, a senior consular official linked to China’s secret police station in New York.
Read more at @NRO (link below):
New: Schumer’s apparent willingness to wave the flag of a foreign authoritarian government calls attention to the strange nature of the New York political world’s engagements with community events that feature a pro-Beijing twist. @NRO
nationalreview.com/2024/02/schume…
nationalreview.com/2024/02/schume…
NY governor Kathy Hochul waved a PRC flag at last year's parade.
Yesterday, it looked like she declined to grab one when someone tried to hand her one (you can see this at the start of the video a few tweets up); Schumer took it instead.
Yesterday, it looked like she declined to grab one when someone tried to hand her one (you can see this at the start of the video a few tweets up); Schumer took it instead.
https://twitter.com/james_t_quinn/status/1626338122991648770
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