{"id":1268430,"date":"2022-02-03T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1268430"},"modified":"2022-02-03T14:38:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T19:38:06","slug":"exclusive-fake-tibetan-group-sponsors-event-featuring-genocide-olympics-promo-with-nyc-mayor-eric-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-fake-tibetan-group-sponsors-event-featuring-genocide-olympics-promo-with-nyc-mayor-eric-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2013 &#039;Fake&#039; Tibetan Group Sponsors Event Featuring Genocide Olympics Promo with NYC Mayor Eric Adams"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fexclusive-fake-tibetan-group-sponsors-event-featuring-genocide-olympics-promo-with-nyc-mayor-eric-adams%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=1268430&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--><p class=\"subheading\">A Lunar New Year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/02\/mayor-eric-adams-speaks-at-nyc-lunar-new-year-fest-promoting-genocide-olympics\/\">event<\/a> in Chinatown, New York, this week boasted a giant banner advertising the Beijing Winter Olympics under another sign claiming a group called the \u201cTibetan Association of North America\u201d had sponsored it. The president of the Tibetan Association of New York and New Jersey told Breitbart News the group appeared \u201cdefinitely\u201d fake.<\/p>\n<p>The event, organized by a group called Better Chinatown USA, featured Mayor Eric Adams as a guest of honor and was a purely cultural event featuring dancing, a children\u2019s chorus dressed as tigers (to ring in the new Year of the Tiger), and traditional fireworks.<\/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>Better Chinatown USA, the organization multiple news outlets identified as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/we-are-going-to-come-roaring-back-in-the-year-of-the-tiger-lunar-new-year-celebrated-in-chinatown-festival\/\">organizing<\/a> Tuesday\u2019s event, did not return a request for comment on the situation. The group also did not respond when asked for information, including contact information, for the \u201cTibetan Association of North America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News attempted to reach out to the Tibetan Association of North America but could not find any contact information. It does not appear to have a website. A group with that name was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycompanyregistry.com\/companies\/tibetan-association-of-north-america-inc\/\">incorporated<\/a> in 2019 in New York and appears to have an office address, but no significant outreach or presence in the Tibetan community.<\/p>\n<p>Adams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3mQmLJA3_A4\">gave<\/a> a brief speech at the event vowing to support the Asian-American community in the city \u2013 which has endured a disproportionate amount of violent crime in the past two years \u2013 but did not mention the Olympics. No one speaking or performing to make note of the Olympics banner, even though it served as a backdrop for the entire event.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The event also appeared to feature exclusively Han Chinese cultural elements, with no significant Tibetan presence. Tibetans celebrate their own new year, <a href=\"https:\/\/tibet.net\/a-brief-introduction-to-losar-tibetan-new-year\/\">Losar<\/a>, in March.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19737714\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-03-at-8.38.09-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19737714\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-03-at-8.38.09-AM.png\" alt=\"Beijing Olympics banner at Lunar New Year celebration in New York, February 1, 2022.\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Beijing Olympics banner at Lunar New Year celebration in New York, February 1, 2022. (Screengrab of video via NowThisNew)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_19737722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-03-at-8.38.20-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19737722\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-03-at-8.38.20-AM.png\" alt=\"Mayor Eric Adams speaking at Lunar New Year event in front of Beijing Olympics banner, February 1, 2022.\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Mayor Eric Adams speaking at Lunar New Year event in front of Beijing Olympics banner, February 1, 2022. (Screengrab of video via NowThisNews).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The New York City mayor\u2019s office did not respond to a request for comment and clarification on Adams\u2019 role in the event or his stance on the 2022 Beijing Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Every major Tibetan group in the United States, and most internationally, have called for a boycott on the Beijing Olympics, set to begin on Friday. Tibet is an occupied territory that has endured severe communist repression for decades. The leader of Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama, lives in exile in India; Beijing condemns the leader, widely acknowledged as an icon of peace in the West, as a terrorist and Islamic State \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2015\/12\/10\/china-dalai-lama-has-sympathy-for-islamic-state\/\">sympathizer<\/a>.\u201d The Communist Party has largely outlawed the use of Tibetan language in Tibet and forcibly separated families to indoctrinate children into communism and raise them speaking Mandarin. The Party has also built an elaborate labor camp system estimated to have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/09\/23\/study-china-has-forced-500000-tibetans-into-labor-camps-this-year\/\">imprisoning<\/a> at least 500,000 people as of 2020 that appears to function similarly to the concentration camps in neighboring East Turkistan, where multiple governments have deemed China guilty of genocide.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>As a result, Tibetans around the world have staged protests against the Olympic Games, arguing that they celebrate genocide and human rights abuses. Tibetan activists have been present in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/10\/20\/greece-tibetans-china-olympics\/\">Greece<\/a>, where the Communist Party received custody of the Olympic flame; Switzerland, where the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/13\/tibetans-chain-themselves-olympic-rings-protest-beijing-genocide-games\/\">headquartered<\/a>; and throughout the United States, on Olympic training <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/01\/10\/u-s-olympian-shaun-white-poses-tibetan-flag-weeks-before-beijing-genocide-olympics\/\">grounds<\/a> and outside of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/01\/05\/protesters-outside-of-nbc-studios-demand-network-sponsors-drop-genocide-olympics\/\">NBC studios<\/a>, which has exclusive rights to air the Games.<\/p>\n<p>The greater context of the Tibetan community\u2019s stance on the Olympics makes the endorsement of the Tibetan Association of North America to an event also promoting the Olympics bizarre \u2013 a potential rare sign of support for an event widely rejected by Tibetans.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The president of the Tibetan Association of New York and New Jersey,&nbsp;Lhawang Ngadup, told Breitbart News on Wednesday that a group with that name does not exist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have a Tibetan Association of North America as such, like an umbrella, we don\u2019t have that. We have Tibetan associations all over North America, like about 20 to 30 Tibetan associations, including Canada,\u201d Ngadup explained. \u201cBut we are all in different places and each Tibetan association has their own location, like the Tibetan Association of New York we call it the Tibetan Community of New York and New Jersey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have one umbrella \u2018Tibetan Association of North America,\u2019 so it definitely looks like fake [sic],\u201d&nbsp;Ngadup said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>When shown an image of the Tibetan Association of North America logo at the event, Ngadup said, \u201cThat\u2019s not even our logo. Looks like a fake group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Tibetan community leader added that he was very suspicious of the possibility that any Tibetan group would be comfortable with an event promoting the Olympics.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19739554\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238160219.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19739554\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238160219-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Tibetan protesters holds a banner at the start of a protest march in front of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters ahead of the opening of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, in Lausanne on February 3, 2022. (VALENTIN FLAURAUD\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cOur Tibetan associations would never do that, would never support the Beijing Olympics, we are against it,\u201d he explained. \u201cWe are against the Chinese human rights abuses and all of those things, and the Beijing Olympics \u2013 we do not support [it] because they don\u2019t have the moral authority to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The name \u201cTibetan Association of North America\u201d does <a href=\"https:\/\/nobeijing2022.org\/joint-open-letter-to-governments-boycott-beijing2022\/\">appear<\/a> on a petition to boycott the 2020 Beijing Olympics, but only as one of over 180 groups with no specific statements from the group. The little available publicly about the organization appears to be largely positive statements about the Communist Party in Chinese state media.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015,&nbsp;<em>China Daily<\/em>, a government publication, <a href=\"https:\/\/global.chinadaily.com.cn\/a\/201511\/19\/WS5a30acb4a3108bc8c672d672.html\">covered<\/a> a photo exhibit in New York praised by \u201cDechen Tulku, President of Tibetan Association of North America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe photos will be the most convincing evidence to show the fact that Tibet belongs to China and Tibetans are members of the Chinese ethnic family,\u201d Tulku is <a href=\"https:\/\/global.chinadaily.com.cn\/a\/201511\/19\/WS5a30acb4a3108bc8c672d672.html\">quoted<\/a> as saying, a message totally at odds with every Tibetan association in North America.<\/p>\n<p>Tulku <a href=\"http:\/\/eng.chinamil.com.cn\/view\/2019-10\/02\/content_9642872.htm\">surfaces<\/a> again in state media in 2019, applauding the Communist Party for its 70th anniversary parade in Tiananmen Square.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt made me feel so good. I\u2019ve never watched a celebration that is so powerful and emotionally touching,\u201d he was quoted as saying of the parade, which mostly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2019\/10\/01\/photos-chinas-emperor-xi-jinping-celebrates-himself-at-70th-anniversary-parade\/\">consisted<\/a> of pictures of Xi Jinping in various sizes.<\/p>\n<p>That year, the collective Tibetan associations of North America issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vermonttibet.org\/press-release-by-north-america-tibetan-associations\/\">statement<\/a> denouncing the \u201cTibetan Association of North America\u201d and Tulku in particular. The occasion of the statement was the presence of the group in a Lunar New Year celebration in New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn February 17th 2019, a Chinese government-supported parade was held in New York\u2019s Chinatown as part of the Chinese Lunar New Year celebration. Participating in this parade was Dechen Tulku and a few other Tibetans, all of whom are US residents and Shugden devotees,\u201d the statement read. Shugden Buddhists are distinct from, and often <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-06-11\/who-are-the-shugden-buddhists\/6539968#:~:text=Shugden%20Buddhists%20worship%20Dorje%20Shugden,Tibetan%20Buddhism%20known%20as%20Gelugpas.&amp;text=Dorje%20Shugden%20is%20traced%20back,fierce%20spirit%2C%20depending%20on%20interpretation.\">at odds with<\/a>, mainstream Tibetan Buddhism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShugden followers such as Dechen Tulku frequently visit China without any issues as they have connections with the New York Chinese consulate. These people are not the elected representatives of North America-based Tibetans,\u201d the statement read. \u201cAs such, any future activity that they carry out in the name of NATA [North America\u2019s Tibetan Associations] will be firmly rejected by all 33 North American Tibetan associations.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19739578\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1358312736.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19739578\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1358312736-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A young protester wears a \u201cFree Tibet\u201d bandana during a demonstration outside of the NBC Sports office on December 10, 2021 in San Francisco, California. (Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/savetibet.org\/setting-up-astroturf-tibetan-associations-in-the-west-is-chinas-latest-ploy-to-mislead-the-world-on-tibet\/\">listed<\/a> the Tibetan Association of North America among several \u201castroturf\u201d organizations, apparently with the backing of the Chinese regime, attempting to undermine the authentic Tibetan community in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese Communist Party\u2019s United Front Work Department is likely the organization behind these activities,\u201d the International Campaign asserted.<\/p>\n<p>ICT also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetibetpost.com\/en\/outlook\/opinions-and-columns\/6509-china-uses-forged-letters,-front-groups-and-money-to-influence-tibetans-living-abroad\">accused<\/a> the Chinese government of being behind a bizarre event in Toronto in which an alleged Tibetan group, the \u201cTibetan Association of Canada,\u201d publicized a fake letter from leftist, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/02\/02\/red-handed-obviously-my-family-has-historical-ties-with-china-how-beijing-bought-off-the-trudeaus\/\">pro-China<\/a> Prime Minister Justin Trudeau supporting their efforts to thank China for \u201chelping\u201d Tibet. Trudeau\u2019s office denied that he had signed any such letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeveral of the attendees were also spotted at an event for another organisation in New York in February, this time under the name Tibetan Association of North America \u2013 American Tibetan groups quickly declared that the association does not represent them,\u201d the Tibet Post noted at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Matteo Mecacci, the president of ICT, told the Tibet Post that the Communist Party\u2019s United Front Work Department was likely organizing these events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lunar New Year event in Chinatown, New York, this week boasted a giant banner advertising the Beijing Winter Olympics under another sign claiming a group called the \u201cTibetan Association &#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-1268430","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\/1268430","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=1268430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268430\/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=1268430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}