{"id":1266281,"date":"2022-02-02T16:08:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T21:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1266281"},"modified":"2022-02-02T16:08:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T21:08:18","slug":"mayor-eric-adams-speaks-at-nyc-lunar-new-year-fest-promoting-genocide-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayor-eric-adams-speaks-at-nyc-lunar-new-year-fest-promoting-genocide-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Eric Adams Speaks at NYC Lunar New Year Fest Promoting Genocide Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmayor-eric-adams-speaks-at-nyc-lunar-new-year-fest-promoting-genocide-olympics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1266281&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/New-York-City-Mayor-Eric-Adams-NYPD-Jan21-22-getty-640x335.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">New York City Mayor Eric Adams spoke at the&nbsp;Firecracker Ceremony and Cultural Festival in Chinatown, Manhattan, on Tuesday as the guest of honor, addressing the crowd in front of a giant banner reading&nbsp;\u201cSupport Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics\u201d and featuring the official logo of the Games.<\/p>\n<p>The event was organized in&nbsp;Sara D. Roosevelt Park, lower Manhattan, and had no obvious connections to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the government of China, or NBC, the broadcaster with exclusive rights to air the Olympics. Among the sponsors listed on the banner behind Adams was an NBC rival, ABC, and a group called the \u201cTibetan Association of North America\u201d \u2013 notable because most Tibetan groups in the United States and the world have enthusiastically called for a boycott of the Beijing Olympics in response to decades of grave human rights abuses by the Chinese Communist Party against Tibetan people.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The celebration \u2013 officially titled the&nbsp;Firecracker and Cultural Festival and organized by a group called Better Chinatown NYC \u2013 featured Chinese dances and musical performances, traditional tiger puppets to celebrate the incoming Year of the Tiger, a fireworks display&nbsp;\u2013 typically used to ward off evil spirits in the new year, and remarks by several public officials, including Adams.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Adams <a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/local-news\/manhattan\/chinese-new-year-kicks-off-with-celebrations-and-hope-of-a-brighter-future\/\">used<\/a> the event to address mounting concerns regarding safety in the Asian-American community of New York, which has suffered a disproportionate number of violent crimes in recent memory, as such attacks have skyrocketed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m recommitted more than ever to make sure my AAPI [Asian-American and Pacific Islander] community is safe in the city of New York as we end the violence against this community,\u201d Adams told the crowd. \u201cWe stand united.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Local network CBS New York <a href=\"https:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/2022\/02\/01\/lunar-new-year-chinatown-year-of-the-tiger\/\">reported<\/a> that crimes against Asians and Asian-Americans in New York had increased by 343 percent between 2020 and 2021, shortly before Adams took over for far-left former Mayor Bill de Blasio in the new year.<\/p>\n<p>Adams did not mention the Winter Olympics in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The promotion of the event is a particularly jarring political statement in what was otherwise an apolitical cultural celebration attracting thousands, many of whom either fled communism in China or are Americans as a result of their ancestors doing the same. Local news outlets covering the event appeared&nbsp;not to mention the Olympics or any controversy surrounding it, or any IOC involvement in the event.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights activists and members of communities repressed by the Chinese Communist Party have spent over a year urging the IOC to relocate the Winter Olympics out of China. The IOC has largely ignored those calls, so protesters then turned to Olympics sponsors, participating governments, broadcasters like NBC, and the general public. Opponents of China hosting the Olympics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/25\/8-reasons-china-should-definitely-not-host-the-winter-olympics\/\">point<\/a> to the Communist Party\u2019s ongoing genocidal activity in multiple regions of the country, its repression of political dissidents and people of faith throughout the country and in nominally autonomous communities like Hong Kong, and mounting concerns regarding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/01\/10\/activists-urge-athletes-to-boycott-chinas-genocide-olympics-for-their-safety\/\">safety<\/a> of athletes in Beijing as Chinese coronavirus cases <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/01\/31\/china-claims-119-olympic-athletes-staff-tested-positive-coronavirus\/\">skyrocket<\/a> there, including within the allegedly safe Olympics \u201cbubble\u201d village.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party is currently engaging in genocide against the ethnic Uyghur people of East Turkistan, using an extensive concentration camp system to torture, indoctrinate, and sterilize millions of people. Similar policies are being implemented in Tibet, where an estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/09\/23\/study-china-has-forced-500000-tibetans-into-labor-camps-this-year\/\">500,000 people<\/a> have been trapped in concentration camps and forced to abandon their faith, language, culture, and individual thinking to embrace the Communist Party and leader Xi Jinping. China has outlawed the Tibetan flag \u2013 endangering athletes who have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/01\/10\/u-s-olympian-shaun-white-poses-tibetan-flag-weeks-before-beijing-genocide-olympics\/\">photographed<\/a> with it in solidarity \u2013 and forced the head of Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama, to live in exile for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Honoring China with hosting the Olympics would lead to further such crimes, activists assert.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>We were deeply discouraged to see that China was even awarded the opportunity to host these Olympics despite the fact that it is carrying out an ongoing genocide,\u201d Salih Hudayar, the prime minister of the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/02\/01\/exclusive-uyghur-leader-boycott-olympics-show-elites-you-care-about-genocide\/\">told<\/a> Breitbart News this week. \u201cThe last time China hosted the Summer Olympics, in 2008, it promised that it would make improvements in human rights and so forth \u2013 and none of those promises have been met. In fact, things have gotten much worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At press time, no governments have boycotted the Beijing Olympics in solidarity with the protesters.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643765950098000&amp;usg=AOvVaw23AQC9DygBP6Uvx2AKooEo\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643765950098000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1V8tY067ZdeWpATK5ZWNXI\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Mayor Eric Adams spoke at the\u00a0Firecracker Ceremony and Cultural Festival in Chinatown, Manhattan, on Tuesday as the guest of honor, addressing the crowd in front of a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}