Nah those curses are pretty standard in Cantonese, not as much in mandarin. And Lotus mainly speaks Cantonese, I've met her before. She's the main reporter for Singtao in NY for like 30 years, everything in the Chinese community is reported by her, at this point she can probably be consider the shadow editor in chief of the main Chinese paper on the east coast. The editors and managers change based on who they send from HK but Lotus has always been there. Still pretty dumb of him to say those things on voice mail to a reporter.

Chinese Americans in NYC Chinatown financed the overthrow of the Qing, the foundation of KMT and the Republic. There's even the KMT office on Mott street. The Chinese Benevolent Society aka Chinese School on Mott by its own rules only supports the Republic of China, the KMT is one of the main member of the benevolent society. The Chinese ideology war has been fought clandestinely in Chinatown since the civil war ended, but it was mainly the KMT doing the work on the republic side, the current DPP admin in the Republic is more insular about the global Chinese community since they're focused on primarily the Taiwanese identity and rarely interact with the Chinese American community. The KMT and CCP both expressed the intent to represent all Chinese from around the world when they were formed.

With more recent immigrants from mainland china arriving and the KMT fall from power in Taiwan, things are slowly shifting towards the CCP side. Wechat and Chinese media supporting the CCP views have become the dominant source of news for many older Chinese in the community.