The GOP presidential candidate had suggested he was barred from China after speaking out against its government. His campaign now says he was simply advised not to go.
And unlike the others, he has said this has come at a personal price: He is now prevented from entering the country.that the candidate “personally cannot travel in China because of the tough positions he publicly adopted.”
“There may be a lot of our MAGA friends that do not WANT to go to China by choice, but he literally can’t travel to China,” the tweet read. And at a campaign event on June 25 in Durham, New Hampshire, Ramaswamy took a question from Granite State GOP congressional candidate and Chinese dissident Lily Tang Williams, who asked if the presidential candidate was, as she said she was, “banned” from entering China.Williams tweetedWilliams’ sentiment gets at how such a blacklisting could be beneficial to Ramaswamy politically.
But when asked about the suggestion Ramaswamy was formally barred, Tricia McLaughlin, Ramaswamy’s communications director, dialed back what the candidate has said. She said he “has received counsel that he should not travel to China based on his public criticism of the regime.” That was not the impression Williams, who first met Ramaswamy in February, was left with. After connecting with him then, Williams, who has described herself as a “Survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution,”
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