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发帖数: 6571 | 3 Chinese-American group funds aerial Trump ad
A group of Chinese-Americans who support Republican Donald Trump for
president had a Trump banner flown behind a plane on Saturday in Sanford.
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By David Ranii
SANFORD
A group of local Chinese-Americans took their support for Republican
presidential candidate Donald Trump to new heights on Saturday.
The results were visible across much of the Triangle.
An ad hoc group of local Chinese-Americans who are linked via a messaging
app called WeChat – developed by Chinese company Tencent – pooled their
resources to hire a single-engine plane towing a banner that proclaimed: “
NC Chinese Americans for Trump.”
The 180-horsepower Aviat Husky A-1B’s scheduled four-hour flight path
started at the Raleigh Executive Airport in Sanford and included a flyby of
Carter-Finley Stadium prior to the game between N.C. State and Boston
College. Also on the schedule: downtown Raleigh, Cary, Apex, Morrisville,
Garner, Holly Springs, Chapel Hill and Durham.
About a dozen Chinese-Americans gathered at the airport Saturday morning to
watch the takeoff of the plane they hired from Aerial Messages of Daytona
Beach, Florida.
“You know why we are doing this today?” Jack Lu, a spokesman for the group
, asked his 7-year-old son as he knelt down to his level. “We’re doing
this today for you and for the future of America.”
Not long afterward, the group – many of them waving miniature American
flags and wearing T-shirts declaring their allegiance to Trump – posed for
photos in front of the plane while chanting, “Make America great again!
Make America great again!”
Among them was Peixing Sun, 50, a computer engineer who lives in Cary, and
his 5 1/2-year-old son Junlong. Sun, who came to the U.S. from China in 1985
, has been a citizen since 2008 but has never voted. But this year he plans
to cast a ballot for Trump.
“In the last eight years, I feel the country has gone in the wrong
direction,” Sun said, citing the nation’s $20 trillion debt as a major
problem. “And Hillary Clinton is going to be even worse than Obama.”
Despite Trump’s promise to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, Sun
doesn’t view Trump as anti-immigrant.
“I don’t think he’s against immigration,” Sun said. “He supports legal
immigration, I think.”
Tony Wang, 50, a software development manager who lives in Cary, also
stressed that there’s a difference between legal and illegal immigration.
Wang, who immigrated to the U.S. two decades ago, is now a citizen.
“Personally, I’m tired of political correctness,” said Wang, who voted
for President Barack Obama four years ago. “Political correctness means no
one can tell the truth ... I think Donald Trump is the only one who can tell
the truth, who can make America great again.”
Lu, a 41-year-old software engineer who lives in Cary, said Chinese-American
groups elsewhere have sponsored aerial banners promoting Trump’s candidacy
– and that was the inspiration for Saturday’s flight.
Indeed, Aerial Messages pilot Matthew Reap said that he would be flying
around Charlotte on Sunday at the behest of a Chinese-American group there.
It took only four days for the Triangle group to raise the more than $2,000
needed to pay for the aerial campaign ad, Lu said. About 30 people
contributed to the cause. |
