Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has some interesting friends.
Schumer was spotted this week smiling while sharing with a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official, Chinese Consul General in New York Chen Li. Li is a staunch denier of the horrific Human Rights abuses against the Uyghurs in his country.
Schumer, who supports censoring Americans and is actively attempting to derail President Trump’s mandates, which the American people endorsed with his decisive victory, joined Li to celebrate the annual Lantern Festival parade in New York City.
Schumer’s beaming smile suggests he seems more at peace with Communists than freedom-loving Americans.
Li shared pictures of Schumer cozying up with his CCP buddies to X, “Thrilled to join thousands at the [Brooklyn] Lantern Festival Parade!”
Thrilled to join thousands at the #Brooklyn Lantern Festival Parade! Incredible #Chinese cultural performances—so proud of Chinese Community in New York! It’s time for celebration and friendship! #ChineseNewYear #lanternfestival #NYC pic.twitter.com/vR0RvIGCCa
— Chen Li 陈立 (@CGChenLiNY) February 10, 2025
So glad to join the 27th NYC Lunar New Year Parade together with all friends and fellow-countrymen. The parade shares our joy, love and will to build a better Chinese community, a better #NYC, and better relations！ pic.twitter.com/LDyRAm1Sq1
— Chen Li 陈立 (@CGChenLiNY) February 17, 2025
In 2021, Li tried to spin its “re-education camps” as voluntary and a place people are happy to be.
“It’s hard to imagine how could ‘genocide’ and ‘forced labor’ associated with such a place where population grows steadily, society is safe and open, and people enjoy happy life,” he wrote.
“Where do the accusations come from?”
“‘Genocide’ was claimed by former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the very last day of his term. It was based on reports fabricated by some extremist anti-China individuals who haven’t been to Xinjiang for years and accounts of a few so-called witnesses who were proved to be trained ‘actors’ and ‘actresses.’”
Leaked documents and photos of the camps paint a very different picture.
One million Muslims (the majority of them Uyghurs) have been held in secretive detention camps without any legal process since 2014 and used as forced labor to enrich the CCP.
In 2022, former U.S. Rep. Bob Gibbs (R-OH), and other Republicans on the House Oversight Committee, questioned China’s Human Rights violations in a letter to the Office of the Inspector General.
“According to the U.S. Department of State, genocide and slave labor in the Xinjiang region of China are being actively perpetrated against the Uyghur minority.”
The lawmakers also referenced the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) signed into law in December 2021 to prevent the U.S. purchase or importation of goods made with forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.
Per U.S. Customs and Border Protection:
The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, or UFLPA, was signed into law as the U.S. response to the Chinese government’s systemic use of forced labor against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in the People’s Republic of China. The UFLPA (Public Law No. 117-78), directs the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force to develop a strategy for supporting enforcement of the prohibition on the importation of goods into the United States manufactured wholly or in part with forced labor in the People’s Republic of China, especially from the XUAR.
CBP enforces the rebuttable presumption that goods mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part in the XUAR, or by an entity on the UFLPA Entity List, are prohibited from U.S. importation under 19 U.S.C. § 1307.
Forced labor camps and Human Rights violations do not seem to bother Schumer or impede his willingness to party with CCP officials.
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