Human Rights Leaders Hit Newsom Over China Trip
This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
By Susan Crabtree
Real Clear Wire
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s six-day trip to China produced a flurry of photo-ops that only spurred more speculation about his presidential ambitions: Newsom grinning while clasping hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping, his tour of a Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer, shots and videos of the governor tieless and sporting sunglasses while touring the Great Wall, and even a few showing the governor’s attempt at some basketball diplomacy with Chinese school boys.
Newsom seemed eager to lean into his relationships with China’s brutal communist regime as a bold contrast to Republicans’ and even many Democrats’ post-COVID condemnation of China. Their list of grievances with Beijing is long and unbending: China’s lack of transparency over the virus’s origins,
