Posted on 01/15/2020 7:44:36 AM PST by Zhang Fei
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Three days after President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) won a landslide victory in the Taiwan presidential election on Saturday (Jan. 11), Taiwanese-American presidential candidate Andrew Yang failed to join 41 other American congressmen, senators, administration officials, and rival presidential candidates in congratulating Tsai on Twitter, or any other public platform.
Since Tsai's record win of 8.17 million votes, the leaders of over 60 countries have publicly congratulated her, much to the chagrin of Communist China. In the U.S. a total of 23 congressmen, 15 senators, three current and former Trump administration officials, two Democratic presidential candidates, and both the Senate and House foreign affairs committees, have posted tweets congratulating Tsai on her victory.
Incredibly, Andrew Yang, who proudly proclaimed himself to be "Taiwanese-American" during a speech in California last year, failed to tweet any words of support for Tsai, despite being highly active on the platform. In fact, he has not yet made any comment on Tsai's historic win on any public platform.
Several Twitter users asked Yang to comment on Tsai's victory, but he has yet to respond to them. Taiwan News sent a request for Yang for comment on the matter, but he has yet to respond.
One possible factor could be that Yang's foreign policy advisor for China, Ann Lee (李淯), an adjunct professor of economics and finance at New York University, appears to be advocating a more conciliatory approach to the communist regime.
In a South China Morning Post article published on Jan. 8, Lee wrote: "The U.S. has been actively trying to provoke China into a military confrontation since 2013 under the Obama administration by suddenly turning the South China and East China seas into hotspots after decades of peace in the region."
Neither did Feinstein’s driver!
Not a good look.
As if this guy is relevant.
Perhaps his brother, Arthur Yin, has something to say.
Very telling.......................
Does China have a fox in the hen house with Andrew Yang running for President?
The Clinton’s might as well have been agents (if they weren’t actually agents) for China.
Nahhhhh.
Can I get my $1000 from Yang before he bails out of the primary?
Good grief. He is an American: enough of the hyphen crap. Identity politics on free republic? Stop.
The title reads like The US is not a country. He is a US presidential candidate.
The only question should be can he be reasonably expected to protect and defend the Constitution. To me the answer is no he is a democrat. Their sole purpose is power they maintain it with abortion rights.
The president of Taiwan. What? I wish people were sick of this crap.
Yang has real support, Klobachar has none and neither did Steyer. Clear evidence of Shenanigans going on in the Dem primary.
*****Andrew Yang, who proudly proclaimed himself to be “Taiwanese-American”******
Looks like Yang, himself, enjoys the “hyphen crap”....
I really doubt he did it for Free Republic...LOL
“Good grief. He is an American: enough of the hyphen crap. Identity politics on free republic? Stop.”
Yang is the one who called himself the hyphen Anerican.
I’m waiting for President Trump to call and congratulate her.
He hasn’t yet.
He has Red Chinese gold in his pocket—I believe. He doesn’t want to insult his backers. Whats his opinion on the Hong Kong protests? I bet he backs Peking crack downs. Whats his opinion on Tibet? No one in MSM will ask him.
If you read Yang’s plans on his campaign website its a model similar to the chinese govt. I pointed this out to my sweet but naive nephew who is supporting Yang. The guy is a commie.
Good golly, did you read the article. Yang self identifies as being Taiwanese-American.
It's very appropriate to call him out on this.
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