Chinese-American Democratic Rep. Slams ‘Racist’ Republican Who Questioned His ‘Loyalty’

House Democrats revolted after Texas Republican Rep. Lance Gooden questioned the loyalty of Chinese-American Rep. Judy Chu and suggested she should not be privy to classified information.

The comments came after Chu defended President Biden’s choice to lead US business interests in Asia, Dominic Ng, against accusations that he is working on behalf of Beijing.

“I question his loyalty or competence,” Gooden said on Fox News on Wednesday. “If you don’t realize what’s going on, then you’re totally out of touch with one of your core constituencies.”

Chu, a Democrat from California, called Gooden’s comments “racist” and demanded an apology.

Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries called the accusations “inconceivable and xenophobic.”

Congressman Gooden appears to sympathize with violent insurgents and spreads big lies to the American people, having voted not to certify the election of President Joe Biden. Look in the mirror, Lance. You have zero credibility,” Jeffries said.

Chu had defended business executive and Democratic donor Ng after the daily call published a report saying that Ng had been a member of two Chinese front groups.

Biden appointed Ng, CEO of East West Bank, last year to head the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Advisory Council.

Ng served as executive director of the China Overseas Exchange Association (COEA) from 2013 to 2017, before assuming a five-year term as executive director of the related China Overseas Friendship Association (COFA) in 2019, according to the Caller.

“I question his loyalty or competence,” Rep. Lance Gooden said on Fox News on Wednesday. “If she doesn’t realize what’s going on, then she’s totally out of touch with one of her core constituencies.”

The Caller cited reports from the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) that found that both COEA and COFA are front groups for the United Front Work Department (UFWD), a CCP agency that conducts intelligence and influence operations.

Gooden, a member of the Judiciary Committee, and five other Republicans demanded that the FBI investigate Ng.

Chu, head of the US Asia-Pacific Caucus, led her fellow Democrats in a statement condemning outrage over Ng as “profiling.”

“No Chinese American, indeed no American, should face suspicion of disloyalty or treason based on their ethnicity, national origin, or that of their family members,” the Democrats said.

Characterizing Chu as the “ringleader” of Ng’s defense, Gooden told Fox: “We are up against communist China and the first reaction of these Democrats is to come to their defense and call us all racists.”

“I am truly disappointed and shocked that someone like Judy Chu has a security clearance and is entitled to confidential intelligence briefings until this is resolved.”

Members of Congress do not always have official security clearances, but they are generally considered to be trustworthy with classified information at briefings.

When asked about the criticism of his comments by Chu and Jeffries, Gooden said in a statement: “Instead of following the facts that indicate the presence of Chinese espionage, Chu and Jeffries are playing the career card on a sample sick with disloyalty to our nation.”

The standoff comes at a time of tense political tensions between Beijing and Washington, with House Republicans targeting competition from China and the origins of Covid-19 and the Pentagon increasing the number of US forces in Taiwan. amid fears of a Chinese invasion.

Efforts to limit Beijing’s power around the world are intensifying amid fears that the CCP will provide assistance to Russia in its invasion of Ukraine.

The allegations of racial profiling come as the nation marked 81 years since another time when Asian Americans were targeted during another time of bitter geopolitical divide. In February 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized rounding up Japanese Americans and sending them to internment camps months after the US entered World War II.