"The conservative movement ignited first by these parents has been widespread in the Chinese community since. Fueled further by the concerns about public safety arising during the pandemic, the community delivered victory to Republican Mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa in close to 200 voting districts in the 2021 elections, flipped two Democratic controlled seats of the state legislature in South Brooklyn, and presented President Trump with big gains compared with 2020 in some Chinese-concentrated neighborhoods.
The Republicans have found Chinese new immigrants standing with them on almost all contentious issues from bailout reform to gender affirming care for minors. The Chinese community in New York “exemplify everything the Republican Party stands for,” said Sliwa at a recent fundraising event hosted by Chinese American Republican assemblyman Lester Chang at Trump Tower, before vowing to help the Republican Party take back the city by getting elected the Mayor this year with the help of the assemblyman.
But Cotton’s bill seems to have created a wedge between some pioneers of the Chinese conservative movement and the Republican Party. “This is already Chinese Exclusion Act 2.0,” said Donghui Zang, the head of New York City Residents Alliance, a network of thousands of Chinese parents he co-founded in 2018 that played a pivotal role in protecting the SHSAT. "
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