by Some of essentially the most outstanding venues in New York City have lately hosted as an honored visitor a Chinese official who praised China’s ruling Communist Party as “nice” and dismissed reviews of systematic persecution in opposition to minorities inside China as “lies.”
Huang Ping, who’s been the consul basic of China’s New York Consulate since 2018, has over the previous week made appearances at Barclays Center, the Nasdaq MarketSite, and the Empire State Building, rubbing elbows with outstanding American enterprise leaders at every cease.
The NBA’s Brooklyn Nets, which play at Barclays in Brooklyn, celebrated the Chinese New Year of the Rabbit on Thursday. Huang went on the basketball court docket, the place he spoke briefly and obtained a sweater and toy rabbit as presents from Sam Zussman, CEO of the Nets’ father or mother firm BSE Global.
The sport was “a chance for us to return collectively and pay homage to the wealthy historical past and traditions related to Chinese tradition the world over and in our personal neighborhood,” stated Zussman.
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Earlier within the week, Ping rang the opening bell of the Nasdaq inventory trade in Times Square, additionally as a celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year. Chinese state-run media was quick to advertise Huang’s look — together with heat remarks from Nasdaq Vice Chairman Robert H. McCooey, Jr. welcoming the consul and praising Nasdaq’s ties to China.
“Nasdaq’s dedication to China stays very robust,” McCooey stated on the ceremony. “We’re extraordinarily proud to be the house for over 175 Chinese firms, progressive and iconic firms who embody the entrepreneurial spirit that assist our two nations proceed to develop.”
Nasdaq additionally lists lots of America’s largest tech firms and has been scrutinized by U.S. officers, together with different main exchanges, for listing Chinese companies over considerations about transparency and threats to nationwide safety. Â
All Chinese firms “are required to ascertain CCP [Chinese Communist Party] cells of their operations and help CCP safety businesses,” based on the China Task Force report, a serious venture carried out by members of Congress in 2020. “The CCP embeds its members in each firm and group.”
U.S. officers have additionally stated Chinese espionage prices the U.S. upwards of $600 billion a yr in stolen mental property.
Still, Huang echoed McCooey’s hospitality, saying China will attain its “vacation spot” and “share the fruits” with everybody.
“China could be very clear that we will open our door and open wider to work with the worldwide neighborhood, to understand our objective, to succeed in our vacation spot and to share the fruits with everybody,” he stated. “As we are actually heading into the Year of the Rabbit, we must always transfer as shortly because the rabbit and work collectively to implement the consensus reached by our two presidents to make this relationship extra productive and extra delivering to profit our individuals and the individuals all all over the world.”
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Michael Sobolik, a fellow in Indo-Pacific Studies on the American Foreign Policy Council, recently told Fox News Digital that China exerts “malign affect” within the U.S. by way of “American voices to advance its personal hostile agenda.”
Last week, Huang additionally attended the ceremonial lighting of the Empire State Building for the beginning of the Lunar New Year.
“We are so happy to increase our heartfelt New Year’s needs to your complete Chinese neighborhood right here within the United States, all over the world, and particularly in China,” Tony Malkin, chairman, president, and CEO of Empire State Realty Trust, stated on the ceremony.
Huang famous that it has been a half-century since U.S.-China engagement started below the Nixon administration and referred to as for enhanced people-to-people exchanges between each international locations.
Despite the nice and cozy rhetoric, nevertheless, Huang has a historical past of creating controversial remarks that did not come up at any of his latest New York gatherings. Most notably, he has ceaselessly praised the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and staunchly defended China’s therapy of Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority, within the area of Xinjiang.
“There are a number of lies right here, fabricated by some individuals with their very own political agenda,” Huang said in an August 2021 interview, denying the existence of genocide and internment camps concentrating on Uyghurs. “As I stated, there is not any genocide, not a single proof to show that there is a genocide or one thing there. It’s only a slandering.”
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the State Department below each the Trump and Biden administrations have assessed China is committing genocide in opposition to the Uyghurs. Since 2017, the Chinese authorities has reportedly imprisoned greater than one million Uyghurs in focus camps, the place based on leaked paperwork from inside China detainees are subjected to rape, torture, compelled labor, brainwashing, and compelled sterilization.
Huang additionally referred to as the CCP a “nice celebration” and described the camps by which Uyghurs are detained as academic.
NEW YORK, Nov. 15, 2018– Huang Ping C, new Chinese consul-general in New York, speaks at a press briefing upon his arrival at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, the United States, on Nov. 15, 2018. The Chinese Consulate-General in New York will proceed to be devoted to selling China-U.S. ties by way of boosting regional cooperation, the newly-arrived Chinese consul-general stated right here on Thursday.Â
(Xinhua/Li Rui through Getty Images)
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“I see these facilities as a campus, quite than camps,” he stated. “We get these individuals there to be educated. And this has been fairly efficient when it comes to countering terrorism and in de-radicalization. Up to now, there has not been a single terrorist assault in precisely 4 years.”
When beforehand reached for remark, the Chinese consulate in New York echoed Huang’s comments, telling Fox News Digital that the “Xinjiang-related challenge will not be about human rights” and {that a} “lie advised a thousand occasions is nothing however nonetheless a lie.”
Huang is not any stranger to being featured at main New York occasions. Earlier this yr, for instance, the consul general attended Times Square’s New Year’s Eve “Hong Kong Rocks!” celebration. The Biden administration on Thursday prolonged a program that protects Hong Kong residents within the U.S. from deportation resulting from considerations about worsening repression in Hong Kong.
Huang additionally previously participated in Nasdaq’s bell-ringing ceremony and the lighting of the Empire State Building a number of occasions.
In April 2022, the consul made headlines for delivering a speech on the twenty fifth annual Harvard College China Forum at Harvard Business School, the place he referred to as on Americans to be extra “tolerant to variety” and to simply accept China’s method of governance.
Supporters of China’s Muslim Uighur minority wave the flag of East Turkestan and maintain placards on December 20, 2019 throughout a demostration at Fatih in Istanbul. – More than 1,000 protesters marched Friday in Istanbul to protest in opposition to China over its therapy of primarily Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang, an AFP correspondent stated.They referred to as for an finish to the crackdown in China’s northwestern area, the place upwards of 1 million Uighurs and different largely Muslim minorities are believed to be held in re-education camps.Â
(OZAN KOSE/AFP)
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“Over the previous 100 years, the CPC has united and led the Chinese individuals to realize world-renowned achievements in creating our nation and enhancing individuals’s lives,” Huang stated at Harvard, according to a transcript by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “China will unswervingly be a builder of world peace, a contributor to international improvement, and a defender of the worldwide order, and can proceed to make unremitting efforts for human improvement and progress.”
Huang chided America for having “some narrow-minded individuals who discover it troublesome to simply accept these international locations with totally different histories, cultures, and methods from the U.S.,” including these voices “at all times level fingers at these international locations and wish to change them.”
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“The path of socialism with Chinese traits is rooted within the 5,000-year-old Chinese civilization,” Huang continued. “It is the selection of the 1.4 billion Chinese individuals. The improvement and progress China has made up to now few many years has absolutely proved that that is the precise path that fits China’s nationwide circumstances. We will comply with this path unswervingly. A ballot carried out by the Harvard Kennedy School on China for 10 consecutive years exhibits that the Chinese individuals’s satisfaction with the federal government has remained above 90% yr after yr. We hope that the U.S. facet will respect the trail independently chosen by Chinese individuals and accommodate a peaceable and affluent China.”
BSE Global, Nasdaq, and the Empire State Realty Trust did not reply to requests for remark.
Fox News’ Cameron Cawthorne and Jessica Chasmar contributed reporting.
