The leaders of a new US House of Representatives select committee on China on Sunday defended Democratic Representative Judy Chu, saying it was abhorrent and unacceptable for a Republican lawmaker to question her loyalty to the US based on her Chinese heritage.
“One of my colleagues, unfortunately, attacked Judy Chu, the first Chinese American congresswoman in the United States Congress, saying that somehow she’s not loyal to the United States. I find that offensive as an Asian American myself,” said US Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, the ranking Democrat on the panel, about the comments last week from US Representatives Lance Gooden, a Republican.
US Representative Mike Gallagher, the Republican chair of the China panel who appeared on Sunday with Krishnamoorthi on CBS’ Face the Nation, said Gooden was out of line.
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“We should not question anybody’s loyalty to the United States,” Gallagher said. “That is out of bounds.”
In a Fox News interview last week, Gooden criticized Chu for her defense of Dominic Ng, whom US President Joe Biden named to the business advisory council of APEC.
Gooden questioned either Chu’s “loyalty or competence.”
He also suggested that Chu, a California Democrat, should not have a security clearance or access to classified briefings.
Chu, the Los Angeles-born chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, called Gooden’s comments “racist,” saying the attacks on her and Ng relied on false information from right-wing media.
On Sunday, Gallagher said his bipartisan committee, which is officially called the “Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party” was named as such “to constantly make that distinction between the party and the people.”
“We must constantly be aware of going overboard as we try and win this competition with China,” he said.
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