The Los Angeles Times profiles professional athlete turned anti-CCP activist Kai Chen:
For years Kai Chen enjoyed the good life of a professional basketball player in China, playing on the national team and traveling around the world.
But he was never happy representing a government that he said tore his family apart and was responsible for millions of deaths in his country. So after Chen married U.S. foreign exchange student Susan Gruenegerg in 1981, the couple moved to the United States to start a new life together.
Chen eventually earned a degree in political science from UCLA and has since become a passionate anticommunist crusader. His main target: the legacy of Mao Tse-tung, leader of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 until his death in 1976.
Last week, Chen led a group of demonstrators at the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda in calling for the removal of a bronze statue of Mao, part of a permanent World Leaders exhibit featuring 10 former heads of state and government.
