ICYMI: Socialist Felon William Lawrence Loves the Chinese Communist Party
Socialist felon William Lawrence “has a history of defending the Chinese government and criticizing U.S. economic and military dominance.”
Lawrence repeatedly “criticized what he saw as anti-Chinese positions” and “denounced the goals of American military and economic dominance.”
“Socialist felon William Lawrence made it clear: he loves the Chinese Communist Party and hates America. Lawrence continues to prove that he is unfit to serve in Congress and too extreme to represent Mid-Michigan.” – NRCC Spokesman Zach Bannon
Read more from The Washington Times here or see excerpts below:
Michigan Democrat denounced U.S. ‘primacy,’ defended Chinese government
The Washington Times
George Caldwell
August 26, 2026
William Lawrence, the Democratic nominee for a Michigan swing district, has a history of defending the Chinese government and criticizing U.S. economic and military dominance.
From May 2023 to October 2024, Mr. Lawrence hosted a podcast called “Hegemonicon,” in which he repeatedly said America treats China’s government unfairly.
“I’m just always going to say this is madness,” he said in an August 2024 episode about the U.S.-Chinese competition.
Mr. Lawrence, a self-identified socialist, explained that he lived in China for six months as a teenager.
“The caricatures that are drawn of Chinese people and the Chinese state is so far from reality. This stuff we hear in the news every day, it’s just … really sad,” he said.
The show was published by Convergence, which describes itself as “a magazine for radical insights.”
In a separate episode that summer two years ago, Mr. Lawrence criticized what he saw as anti-Chinese positions of the Biden administration and suggested the U.S. lacks high ground when it criticizes China for falling short on human rights and democratic standards.
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Mr. Lawrence’s criticism of the Biden administration’s cold relationship with China was a common theme on the podcast.
In another episode, Mr. Lawrence criticized those on the left who are “pro-economic nationalism … who are unabashedly celebrating Bidenomics, including its anti-Chinese protectionist elements.”
He accused those figures of resorting to “ill-informed American chauvinism or false or incomplete characterizations of the Chinese system.”
Finally, Mr. Lawrence denounced the goals of American military and economic dominance.
“We must strengthen the anti-war movement, the movement for an arms embargo against Israel, but also a broader push against militarism and the U.S. doctrine of primacy,” he said.
Mr. Lawrence defined the doctrine of primacy as the U.S. being “capable of winning any war in any arena of the globe at any time.”
He said that idea is “actually crazy if you stop to think about it.”
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