Former U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke is denouncing U.S. President Donald Trump for a new campaign ad that seems to falsely imply Locke was a Chinese official.
Trump’s Republican reelection campaign released an ad Thursday that accused former Vice-President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, of being too cozy with China.
It featured an image of Biden and Locke on a stage with U.S. and Chinese flags in the background. Locke, an Asian American, said Friday that Trump and his team are “fanning hatred” at a time when hate crimes and discrimination against Asian Americans are on the rise.
He said in a statement that “the Trump team is making it worse” and that “Asian Americans are Americans. Period.” Locke was an