Overseas Chinese Association Leader Publicly Criticizes Chinese Consulate in Rare Display

News Analysis Pro-Beijing overseas Chinese associations frequently serve as instruments to aid China’s communist regime in targeting dissidents residing abroad. Nevertheless, a leader of one such association recently publicly criticized the Chinese consul general in New York during a speech. During the reelection and installation ceremony of Liu Aihua, chairman of the Fujian Compatriot Association of America (FCAA), held at a Flushing restaurant on March 18, Chen Xueduan, the association’s honorary chairman, took to the stage, demanding the media to broadcast his condemnation of Huang Ping, the consul general of the Chinese Consulate in New York. Fujian is a coastal province in eastern China. Many from Fujian came to the United States as illegal immigrants and have formed a large community concentrated in the Eight Avenue neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York....