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You don’t know or understand the history or sociopolitical dynamics of Taiwan-China.

Her family is Chinese. And they are Shanghainese.

They went to Taiwan after the Communsust took over in 1949. They then moved to the US. They are not Taiwanese.

These 49ers identify as Chinese, not Taiwanese.

She is friends, via her father and family, with a large number of Chinese Communists including former Premier Jiang Zemin, another Shanghainese whom her father knew in college.

The political animosities between the exiled Chiangmai Kai-shek supporters has dissipated over the decades.

She was on record condemning the Cox report as demonization of China and has spoken how American Christians and Human Rights supporters like to demonize China to create an enemy.

I don’s say these things to fully condemn her. I generally like her as far as US politics as she is relatively conservative (albeit GOPe).

But when it comes to China she is pro-China and supportive of engagement and ties and does not condemn the Chinese Communists.

She doesn’t really differ from the mainstream of the US foreign policy establishment, Democrat or Republican. For example she said Clinton’s policy on China was good, but criticized him for it not being robust enough compared to what the Bush administration could do, or had done under HW Bush.

She was, though, quite critical of conservative critics of Clinton’s China policies.

She doesn’t take much an a public role in US discussions on China policy. But she has given many interviews to Chinese language media wherein she has made these views clear.

Excuse any typos, I am pressed for time.

It’s an interesting subject and Chao is not atypical by any means except in the very high levels of associations with the Chinese Communists.

(And by the way, this thread’s original article is a bunch of hooey).