A group of young Chinese Americans has launched an online campaign to support Donald Trump's campaign to become the next U.S. president.

More than 500 Chinese descendants in the United States have joined in the pro-Trump group on the popular Chinese social media platform WeChat.

On May 4, they held an offline meeting in Los Angeles and laid out the group's objectives, including supporting Trump in all activities.

"I'm planning a meeting for all Chinese-Americans supporting Trump in two months. I plan to invite Trump to give us a speech," said the group's founder Wang Tian.

Wang has been fascinated by Trump ever since he spent five hours watching the latter's speeches on YouTube. "It suddenly came to me that this guy is trustworthy because he makes no secret of his feelings," Wang said.

Trump's supporters are a small but significant minority of the American Chinese community. For the past 20 years, first generation Chinese-Americans have preferred the Democratic Party, but the Republican Party has become increasingly popular among young Chinese-Americans.

"[The first-generation] Chinese-Americans were mostly poor, so they were more in favor of the Democratic Party, as it could give them more social welfare," Wang said. "But this shouldn't be our American dream. The Chinese-Americans should make successes in business. We should be more active in politics. We should be a part of mainstream society."

Trump has given many critical speeches on China, but none of them are seen to be offensive to the pro-Trump Chinese-Americans. They firmly believe that as a businessman-turned-politician, Trump has been using China as a punching bag and would maintain U.S.-China relationships if elected.

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