Buon Huong Tan (Chinese: 陈文雄; born 10 March 1967) is a French politician formerly serving as the member of the National Assembly for the 9th constituency of Paris since 2017.
[2] Tan arrived in France as a refugee from Cambodia in 1975, as his Chinese Cambodian family fled the Khmer Rouge.
[3] In addition to his committee assignments, he is the president of the French-Chinese Parliamentary Friendship Group.
[4] In January 2022, Tan was the only deputy to vote against a cross-party resolution recognizing and condemning the “genocidal nature of the systematic political violence and crimes against humanity currently perpetrated by China against the Uyghurs.“[5][6] Buon Tan is a member of several Chinese Communist Party-affiliated groups, and has invited multiple Chinese ambassadors to France to give speeches to the National Assembly.
[7] In May 2019, he visited Beijing to attend a meeting of the Chinese Overseas Friendship Association and was photographed shaking the hand of General Secretary Xi Jinping.