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By John I. Bolton

Democrats say something is missing from the biography of the Republican nominee for governor. They’ve decided a candidate’s past employment is fair game. Fine. Then past comments are fair game too, and the official record of the sitting Attorney General most of all. This is about conduct, not heritage.

In 2019, Attorney General Tong met Beijing’s consul general from New York, Huang Ping, in his Hartford office. The Chinese consulate’s own account of that visit says Mr. Huang hoped to ‘deepen law enforcement cooperation.’ The same account reports that the Attorney General said that although U.S.-China relations had ‘encountered some obstacles,’ he would like ‘to build a bridge for exchanges and cooperation and to promote friendly interaction between the two countries.’

Foreign policy belongs to Washington, and Connecticut’s Attorney General has no criminal jurisdiction at all. So what law enforcement cooperation was Beijing looking for from our Attorney General, and what did he tell them?

The Attorney General later co-signed a pandemic-supply request to Mr. Huang on the Governor’s letterhead, and he spoke at the Chinese consulate’s 2023 Lunar New Year reception. News organizations later identified Mr. Huang as the unnamed Chinese official in the federal case against Linda Sun, a former New York state aide charged with acting as an undisclosed agent of China. Mr. Huang was never charged, and Ms. Sun has pleaded not guilty.

I’m not accusing anyone of wrongdoing, and I’m not making any judgments. I’m asking what any voter would ask, especially after years of federal warnings that Beijing targets state and local officials:

• What law enforcement cooperation did Mr. Huang have in mind, and what did Tong tell him?
• What else did Tong's office discuss with Mr. Huang and his staff?
• Will Tong release every communication between his office and the Chinese consulate since 2019?

Democrats wanted to talk about the past. So let’s talk about it. Attorney General Tong, are you prepared to fully disclose? The People’s Lawyer owes the people answers.

John I. Bolton is the Republican nominee for Connecticut Attorney General.

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