Naisi Chen

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Naisi Chen
陳耐鍶
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Chen in 2023
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Labour party list
In office
17 October 2020 –14 October 2023
Personal details
BornFebruary 1994 (age 30) [1]
Beijing, China
Political party Labour
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese 陳耐鍶
Simplified Chinese 陈耐锶
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin Chén Nàisī

Naisi Chen (Chinese : 陳 耐 鍶 , born February 1994) is a New Zealand politician. She served as a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party from 2020 to 2023.

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Early life and career

Chen was born in Beijing, China and moved to New Zealand at age five. [2] Her father is a Christian pastor and her mother is a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine. [3] She attended Westlake Girls High School in Auckland before studying at the University of Auckland, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws in 2017. [4] [5]

She worked as president of the New Zealand Chinese Students' Association and as a director of a business consultancy firm. [6] She was appointed to the board of Foundation North in 2019. [7] [8] A musician who learned piano, flute, double bass and tuba, she also sat on the board of the Auckland Philharmonia. [9] [10]

Political career

New Zealand Parliament
YearsTermElectorateListParty
2020 –2023 53rd List38 Labour

Chen was asked to run as a Labour candidate at the 2017 general election by Raymond Huo. [3] She was selected as a list candidate, ranked 50, then additionally selected for the East Coast Bays electorate after the previous Labour candidate withdrew. [11] [12] [13] She was defeated in the electorate contest by National's Erica Stanford and not ranked high enough to be elected as a list MP. [14]

She stood again at the 2020 election and was ranked 38 on the Labour Party list. [15] Chen also contested the Botany electorate. Despite losing the Botany electorate to National's Christopher Luxon by a margin of 3,999 votes, she was ranked high enough on the Labour list to get into Parliament. [16] [17] [18] [19] In parliament, Chen sat on the governance and administration committee and was deputy chair (from 2020 to 2023) and chair (2023) of the economic development, science and innovation committee. [20]

Ahead of the 2023 election, she sought the Labour Party nomination for Auckland Central but was unsuccessful. [21] Instead, she contested East Coast Bays for a second time. Stanford retained the seat and, despite her improved list rank of 33, the party did not poll well enough for Chen to be re-elected. [22] Due to her low ranking on the party list, she was not re-elected to Parliament. [23]

In September 2017, New Zealand sinologist and University of Canterbury political scientist Anne-Marie Brady alleged in a conference paper that Chen had "close […] connections" to the United Front, a network of groups and individuals and strategy the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses to advance its agenda. Brady cited Chen's leadership of New Zealand Chinese Students' Association, a "united front-related organization", as evidence. [24] Chen said she felt "hurt" by the accusations. [25] Prior to the 2020 election, members of the group New Zealand Values Alliance distributed flyers in Auckland alleging that Chen was a "CCP agent". [3]

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