(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Already closely affiliated with groups that support defunding the police, Democrat radical leftist Stacey Abrams has now also been connected to a prominent Chinese executive linked to human rights abuses.
According to Newsbusters, the report by Fox News’ Jessica Chasmar showed that Abrams “co-chaired a racial justice organization that’s financed by an executive of Alibaba, a Chinese firm that reportedly helped create surveillance technology used against Uyghur Muslims.”
Because she is currently campaigning, Abrams is listed as “co-chair emeriti”
The failed gubernatorial candidate has been involved with the “Black Voices for Black Justice Fund” since April 2021, and stated that she was “excited” to be part of a group that “puts Black leaders in the driver’s seat—with Black activists on the ground who understand how racism plays out in their community defining both the problem and the solutions.”
Chasmar noted on Fox News Digital that of the 18 partners that back the organization, one of them was the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation.
Joe Tsai is credited as the co-founder and “executive vice chairman of Alibaba Group, one of China’s largest technology firms that actively works to advance the interests of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).”
Alibaba has been suspected to be colluding with the Chinese government, and are known to have assisted in funding Chinese artificial intelligence companies. Many of these companies have been blacklisted by the United States as they can be tied with human rights abuses, such as the Uyghur concentration camps.
“While not state-owned, Alibaba still finds itself like other private Chinese tech companies deeply involved with the government as one of its national champions,” a Reuters report said about Alibaba in 2019.
Tsai has not made any public comments concerning the treatment of the Uyghur Muslims.
In 2018, he did say it was “important” for the Chinese government to limit freedoms to retain “absolute stability” within the country’s borders.
Other organizations partnering with BVBJ include the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Delaware Community Foundation & Rodel Foundation, Kenan Charitable Trust, Red Crane Foundation and The Moriah Fund.
