A spokesperson for a Democrat mayor is defending a recent meeting with a controversial Chinese diplomat, who has repeatedly praised the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).<\/p>\n
\u2018Met with Philadelphia\u2019s Mayor Parker together with Tianjin\u2019s Executive Deputy Mayor Liu Guiping,\u2019 Huang Ping, who\u2019s been the consul general of China\u2019s New York Consulate since 2018, recently posted on X.<\/p>\n
\u2018Exchanges at the subnational level keeps fueling China-US relations. Let\u2019s keep it going,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n
Over the last year, Huang has appeared at several prominent universities to meet with officials despite his past statements as well as rising concerns from the American public about China\u2019s aggressive presence in the United States.<\/p>\n
Huang, who met with Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker, has previously called the CCP a \u2018great party\u2019 and has denied that China is targeting the Muslim Uyghur population in China.<\/p>\n
\u2018There are lots of lies here, fabricated by some people with their own political agenda,\u2019 Huang said in an August 2021 interview, denying the existence of genocide and internment camps targeting Uyghurs. \u2018As I said, there\u2019s no genocide, not a single evidence to prove that there\u2019s a genocide or something there. It\u2019s just a slandering.\u2019<\/p>\n
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the State Department under both the Trump and Biden administrations have assessed that China is committing genocide against the Uyghurs. Since 2017, the Chinese government has reportedly imprisoned more than a million Uyghurs in concentration camps where, according to leaked documents from inside China, detainees are subjected to rape, torture, forced labor, brainwashing and forced sterilization.<\/p>\n
\u2018The Mayor and city officials engaged, as protocol and respect dictates, with the official representatives of China,\u2019 a spokesperson for Mayor Parker\u2019s office told Fox News Digital in a statement when asked if the mayor was aware of Huang\u2019s previous statements when she met with him.<\/p>\n
\u2018This meeting was about greeting and welcoming the representatives of our Sister City Tianjin and celebrate our 45th anniversary as Sister Cities \u2013 as we were amongst the first pairs of sister cities to be established following the reestablishing of diplomatic relationships between the U.S. & China,\u2019 the spokesperson added. \u2018Also the occasion to cheer the 50th anniversary of the first tour of the Philadelphia Orchestra in China.\u2019<\/p>\n
In addition to praising the CCP, Huang has repeatedly promoted CCP talking points on X and amplified the agenda of Chinese President Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n
Huang previously met with Democrat lawmakers in Pennsylvania as well as with a local economic council. He has also met with a long list of officials at Ivy League and other prestigious universities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, Huang joined Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Gov. Kathy Hochul, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams during the Lunar New Year Parade in Manhattan. Huang has met with New York\u2019s elected officials several times in the past.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Last year, he stood beside Adams at the New York China Day Celebration Parade Festival. Fox News Digital previously reported that Hochul and Huang met in April 2019 when she was the lieutenant governor to discuss cooperation between New York and China.<\/p>\n
Huang\u2019s visits with top officials come amid growing concerns about China\u2019s presence in the United States in a variety of sectors, from academia to government to health care to social media.<\/p>\n
\u2018The Chinese Communist Party is playing for keeps at the nuclear level and every layer below that,\u2019 Michael Sobolik, author of \u2018Countering China\u2019s Great Game: A Strategy for American Dominance,\u2019 told Fox News Digital. \u2018And it\u2019s not just the universities. The Chinese Communist Party is looking to infiltrate every aspect of American society.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018If we try to edit undo our way out of this whole list of infiltrations and threats that the CCP sends our direction that\u2019s good policy work. We need to insulate ourselves. But good housekeeping is the bare minimum of waging a cold war and winning a cold war,\u2019 Sobolik continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018If we\u2019re serious about winning a cold war, it\u2019s not enough to just address these problems that the Chinese Communist Party has created for America. American policymakers need to go on the offensive and create problems for the CCP to respond to. We need to seize the initiative of this competition.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018Mayor Parker cares about the many different communities and groups in our respective cities, and will engage with stakeholders who serve and may represent them,\u2019 Parker\u2019s office told Fox News Digital when asked about her concerns over China\u2019s growing presence in the U.S.<\/p>\n
\u2018President Biden and the Biden administration handle the foreign relations of the United States.\u2019<\/p>\n
Fox News Digital reached out to Huang\u2019s office but did not receive a response.<\/p>\n
Fox News\u2019 Jamie Joseph contributed reporting.<\/p>\n\n
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