I always tell people the day Latinos, African-American, Asian and other communities realize that they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning. Because we are the majority in this country. We have the ability to take over this country,” State Rep. ‘Gene’ Yuanzhi Wu, who serves as the Texas Democrat House Minority Leader, recently declared.

Who is oppressing Wu? The Chinese immigrant came here from Guangzhou, graduated from law school and became one of the top officials in the state. Good luck to any American who wants to move to China, become a lawyer and run for public office. And if a non-Chinese immigrant were to suggest that minorities in China should ally together against their Chinese oppressors and take over, his organs would be for sale on Temu in 15 minutes or less.

Rep. Wu represents a Houston district where a majority of the neighborhoods like Gulfton and Sharpstown are Hispanic and only a minority of residents are Chinese. Three out of four core neighborhoods have more black people than Hispanics so it’s understandable that Wu wants to point them at overthrowing their white ‘oppressors’ rather than electing a black or Hispanic man.

(Of course many of the ‘Hispanics’ in Wu’s district are illegal aliens. Wu admitted in an interview that at least a third are illegals, suggesting the real number may be much higher, and that his district is illegitimate. It also explains why Wu fights so hard to protect illegal aliens in Texas.)

But Rep. Gene Wu’s call for a race war isn’t representing Asian Americans either. Instead it hews suspiciously close to the Chinese Communist party’s agenda for tearing apart America.

Houston was the site of one of the most blatant Chinese influence and intimidation operations leading to the forced closure of its consulate in 2020 followed by the fire department showing up when its staffers began burning papers. Wu, who had attended multiple events at the spy consulate, angrily protested the forced closure, warning that “this is how WW3 starts” and ranting that it’s “madness” and claiming that “this is Trump trying to start an actual war.”

Rep. Gene Wu claimed that the closure of the spy consulate was racist and endangering Asian Americans. “It’s not just Chinese Americans that are in danger. But it’s all Asian Americans, because as we’ve seen with COVID-19 issues that there has been a dramatic spike in anti-Asian American attacks both physical and verbal.”

“Everyone spies,” Wu’s wife, who works as a reporter, argued after conducting an interview with the Chinese Communist consul general..

“We try very hard to make sure to bridge the gap between Texas and China,” Rep. Wu told China Daily, a paper controlled by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party, and described lobbying members of Congress to support exporting natural gas to China. “Every time I go to DC I make it my business to visit senators and representatives to tell them why this bill is a good idea. If this gets passed and signed by the President, it will be huge for Texas and China… This is the perfect area for Chinese companies to do business.”

Rep. Wu led the fight against Texas Senate Bill 17 barring Chinese, Russian, Iranian and North Korean takeovers of American land after foreign nationals belonging to enemy nations, especially to China, began buying up property near air bases.

“It is anti-Asian, anti-immigrant, and specifically against Chinese-Americans,” Rep. Wu falsely claimed. “It is plainly racist, and our community will not stand for it”. He argued that “this is our new form of yellow peril, where people are scared of whatever issues they have with China.”

The representative from China seemed unaware of what issues anyone might have with the PRC. “There’s you know, other administrations, people caught Chinese spies, they caught U.S. spies, whatever it is.” he said dismissively.

Even as Rep. Wu claimed to be fighting for civil rights while criticizing America in the harshest possible language, he’s had little to say about human rights abuses in Communist China. Instead, Wu has met with top Communist officials, celebrated them and promoted China’s interests inside the United States even while seeking to pit Americans against each other.

Shortly after taking office, Wu spoke at a Chinese Communist front group event welcoming Vice Premier Liu Yandong, who had served in China’s ‘United Front Work Department’ global propaganda and influence front, to Texas. The same politician who claimed that democracy would be “gone” if Americans voted for Trump had no such concerns about China’s tyrants.

Rep. Wu has claimed that “our family has been the victims of communism for a very long time, and we fled to this country as fast as we possibly could.” But he certainly doesn’t act like it. It’s entirely plausible that members of his family were purged during the Cultural Revolution. That’s true of many Chinese Communists and while it’s now common to deplore those abuses, much as Stalin’s abuses were later deplored by the USSR, that’s a long way from rejecting China.

I could not find a single mention of the Tiananmen Square massacre by Rep. Wu, but he did falsely accuse Gov. Abbott and President Trump of “sending armed soldiers to suppress peaceful protests” and claimed that “the Texas we love was built on freedom from tyranny, not submission to it.” No word from Wu on what China is built on.

Genuine refugees from Communist China and Cuba don’t pal around with officials from the countries that their families fled, lobby for their interests or denounce America in favor of them, instead they call attention to the abuses and crimes of those regimes and continue to denounce them and their ideological system.

But when given a chance to denounce Communism, Wu defended it instead.

Last year, Texas Senate Bill 24 was introduced incorporating teaching about the dangers of Communism in schools. Wu predictably came out against the bill, claiming that it would lead to discrimination against people from Communist countries and suggesting that some American Communists were heroes.

When Rep. Gene Wu calls for minorities to unite to take over America, he sounds like them.

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