Chinese Communist Background Threatens Eric Swalwell’s Run for CA Governor
by Lowell Cauffiel
Rep. Eric Swalwell’s (D-CA) dealings with Chinese communists may be coming back to haunt him during his run to be the next governor of the state of California.
A previously unreported 2013 Facebook post by China’s San Francisco consulate — unearthed by Fox News Digital — shows then-freshman Swalwell touting “great potential” for U.S.-China cooperation, according to a report by the outlet Saturday.
The Bay Area lawmaker’s comment came following a meeting with a senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) diplomat during the same time when Swalwell was allegedly targeted by Chinese espionage efforts by a suspected female spy.
According to the report:
The 2013 photo, which was unearthed by Fox News Digital and “liked” by Christine “Fang Fang” Fang, a Chinese national who was suspected of being a Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) operative and who was reportedly working closely with Swalwell’s campaign helping with fundraising, showed Swalwell posing with Song Ru’an.
At the time of the photo, Ru’an was the Deputy Consul General at China’s Bay Area consulate in San Francisco. He would subsequently be tapped to serve as the Deputy Commissioner of the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China in Hong Kong until at least 2021.
“The United States and China have a lot in common and the two economies are highly complementary,” Swalwell said at the meeting according to the picture’s caption. “There are (sic) great potential for the two countries to cooperate. I will work actively to promote bilateral economic and trade cooperation, and I’m looking forward to visiting China in the near future.”
The revelation of the photo comes two weeks after Fox News Digital reported that Swalwell’s gubernatorial campaign recently received nearly $10,000 from the California-based office of DeHeng Law — allegedly “a top Beijing law firm that has deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party.”
Ru’an in the past has supported interests contrary to American priorities, according to the most recent Fox report.