Lily Tang Williams grew up killing rats for food when she nearly starved in Mao Zedong’s communist China.
And now in the US, she is now running for Congress in New Hampshire as a Republican to prevent America from becoming like the country she tried to escape.
After growing up and getting her law degree in Shanghai, Williams emigrated to the U.S. in 1988, beginning what she describes as a “20-year awakening” process to politics.
‘I left China for freedom, but I was really indoctrinated. I didn’t know the real history of China,” she told DailyMail.com in an interview. ‘I wasn’t really politically active for the first twenty years. But my husband helped me learn a lot about the US – from foreign languages to culture, traditions and history.”
“He said, ‘You know that those fifty to sixty million people who starved to death are not the result of natural disasters.’ We were told by the Communist Party that natural disasters caused mass famine,” she said, referring to the tens of millions of people who died as a result of food rationing and the communist takeover of food production in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Williams wants to unseat Democratic Rep. Annie Kuster and will face four other Republicans in the September primary.
Williams’ own experience during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, designed to eradicate all vestiges of capitalism in China, left her in shock when people tried to tell her that she was being “oppressed” as a minority in the US.
“I didn’t even have food stamps, I was hungry. I had to try catching rats near my grandma. Soon everyone had to catch rats,” she said. “Now they’re trying to tell us in the US, ‘Oh, you’re oppressed. The white people are demons.’ We cannot indoctrinate our children with that.’
Now Williams says she is on a target list for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and that they have threatened her on social media.
‘I had a trip back to China for the Chinese New Year in 2019, but I canceled it. I didn’t want to disappear.’
Williams grew up in China under Mao Zedong until 1988
Williams wants to unseat Democratic Rep. Annie Kuster and will face four other Republicans in a primary in September
She is now running for Congress in New Hampshire
Williams said she “really woke up” to politics in 2008, around the time of the financial crash when the government bailed out big banks, but she gave up the Republican Party for a while and became a libertarian.
“They used taxpayer money to bail out the banks, to say capitalism failed and that’s why they have to come and pick and choose with the federal government here, because they let one big bank fight bankruptcy and then bail out other banks. ‘
‘I was very angry about that. I was angry about the Patriot Act: the government is violating citizens’ privacy without due process in the name of national security, I’ve heard that before in China.’
She said she was concerned about the federal government’s expansion of education with Common Core and No Child Left Behind and pulled her children out of public school and into a charter school.
“Parents, many of them, are still unaware of what’s happening in schools,” Williams said.
Williams credits her husband with opening her eyes to politics
Williams says she was “indoctrinated” in China because the government did not allow dissent
“I call this the Western ‘Cultural Revolution’ – it is happening in the West to try to destroy traditional values, social norms, customs and different beliefs,” she continued, “in the name of social justice and anti-racism.”
She said she did not want schools to follow Chinese education.
‘Parental rights’ do not exist even today in China because they truly believe that children belong to the government. They can do anything to your children that you have no say in. Only you have to feed them, you have to house them, you become baby machines. You give the government your babies, but you can’t make decisions.’
She also decried the massive influx of migration the US is seeing, with a recent wave of Chinese migrants entering through the southern border – and warned of what she said would become a degradation of American culture.
“Cities are using taxpayer money and rolling out the red carpet when they can’t even house our own homeless people. Our own veterans have no way to make ends meet and no home, and you give free hotels, food and travel to people from other countries.”
Williams said her brother and sister-in-law waited 13 years in China to legally come to the U.S. and are still waiting to become U.S. citizens.
“Biden says he doesn’t have the power – are you kidding? He had the power to undo all of Trump’s policies on his first day in the White House!’
Williams claimed that she and her Chinese friends are calling President Biden and the Democrats “CCP secretaries in the US.”
‘It’s scary, are we going to become collectivist, like a communist country? Individual rights do not exist, individual privacy does not exist.’
“Most of those people want to flee China because it has become very harsh and inhumane in the past three years,” she said. ‘In 2012 you noticed a shift in China under Xi Jinping. He is the new Mao, doing Cultural Revolution 2.0.”
She continued, “But I’m also very concerned that it’s so well organized, correlated, with a number of sleeper cells… I just feel like we have a very dark force upon us. This is a global impetus for illegal mass migration.”
Williams warned Americans not to underestimate China’s use of “soft power” to infiltrate the US and gain global dominance.
“I always try to remind people that there is no real private enterprise in China. No, every company that comes to the United States is state-owned,” she said.
“So if the West is drunk on climate change ideology and mandates, who benefits? China benefits. We are giving them more money to build their military, soft power, Silk Road initiative across Europe and around the world.”
Williams says she caught rats when she was starving in China
Williams settled in New Hampshire with her family
‘I left China for freedom, but I was really indoctrinated. I didn’t know the real history of China,” she told DailyMail.com in an interview. ‘I wasn’t really politically active for the first twenty years. But my husband helped me learn a lot about the US – from foreign languages to culture, traditions and history.”
‘China controls our debts. “If you can’t pay the interest on your loans to China, they will take over our ports, they will take over our cities,” she continued. ‘They are now stationed in Cuba. They supply our (electric vehicles), compete with American companies because the West, places like California, are trying to ban gas by 2035.”
Williams said she doesn’t think many Americans understand that China wants to be the world’s largest dominant power by 2049. Economically, diplomatically, militarily and also technologically.
‘They are using the Silk Road initiative to form alliances with other countries. So they are behind Cuba, North Korea, Russia, Hamas, all those non-friendly countries? Yes, socialist countries in the world. And we allow them to enter our country. More power. More money, more inventory and more products to sell,” she continued.
“And we’re not changing our China policy fast enough.”