{"id":1438092,"date":"2022-04-14T13:31:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T17:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1438092"},"modified":"2022-04-14T13:31:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T17:31:43","slug":"brooklyn-nets-owner-joe-tsai-s-deep-ties-to-authoritarian-chinese-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brooklyn-nets-owner-joe-tsai-s-deep-ties-to-authoritarian-chinese-exposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Nets Owner Joe Tsai&#039; s Deep Ties to Authoritarian Chinese Exposed"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fbrooklyn-nets-owner-joe-tsai-s-deep-ties-to-authoritarian-chinese-exposed%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=1438092&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\">In a Thursday article, ESPN detailed the deep ties that billionaire Brooklyn Nets Owner Joe Tsai has to the authoritarian Chinese government and how those relationships \u201cpersonify\u201d the \u201ccompromise\u201d of the NBA\u2019s hypocritical relationship with China.<\/p>\n<p>Tsai made his billions with the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. Since joining the NBA as an owner, he has been called \u201cinvaluable\u201d to the NBA\u2019s expansion in the communist nation.<\/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>But Tsai is also the poster boy for the NBA\u2019s hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<p>In an unusual random act of journalism, in its Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/33723055\/brooklyn-nets-owner-joe-tsai-face-nba-uneasy-china-relationship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a>, ESPN notes, \u201cTsai personifies the compromises embedded in the NBA-China relationship, which brings in billions of dollars but requires the league to do business with an authoritarian government and look past the kind of social justice issues it is fighting at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tsai has gone to lengths to serve two masters, both working at opposite ends. Tsai has pushed millions of dollars in the U.S. to fund dozens of woke campaigns against \u201cracism.\u201d Still, in China, his company works to support entities and agencies that the U.S. government blacklists for supporting a \u201ccampaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention and high-tech surveillance\u201d by using racial profiling.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The NBA owner has also specifically defended China\u2019s brutal crackdowns on political dissent, including the country\u2019s destruction of free speech in Hong Kong, ESPN says in its long, in-depth piece.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/photos\/protester-holds-up-a-no-more-bloody-games-sign-while-marching-across-picture-id1238167360?k=20&#038;m=1238167360&#038;s=612x612&#038;w=0&#038;h=Lbk6chDCfthxlqvSkLogARpz8fF39kR0GHFmyJ6rxVw=\" alt=\"Protester holds up a \" No More Bloody Games \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Protests against China hosting the Olympics (JOSH EDELSON\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN, Tsai even thinks China\u2019s brutal crackdowns have been a good thing because \u201cHe believes China\u2019s restrictions on personal freedoms have paved the way for economic development that has improved the lives of millions of its citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tsai\u2019s double-dealing, though, has not gone unnoticed. ESPN noted that the NBA owner had taken some criticism in the U.S.A.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Tsai is emblematic of U.S. sports and business figures who are critical of American imperfections, as we all should be, but who make excuses for human rights atrocities committed in China, where he makes money,\u201d Matt Pottinger, a former deputy national security adviser and China specialist in the Trump administration, told ESPN. \u201cWe\u2019re going to self-censor or even compliment the policies of a totalitarian dictatorship that\u2019s committing crimes against humanity?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Insiders even insisted that Tsai stretched his influence inside the NBA to get now-former Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey fired for his 2019 tweet supporting the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. Tsai and the NBA have denied those charges.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, under Tsai\u2019s leadership, Alibaba has helped the Chinese government build \u201can intrusive, omnipresent surveillance state that uses emerging technologies to track individuals with greater efficiency,\u201d ESPN noted.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>That surveillance state \u2014 the largest and most intrusive ever created \u2014 has been used to imprison and enslave ethnic Chinese people, especially the country\u2019s Uyghur minority group.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/photos\/protester-holds-a-placard-reading-shame-on-china-during-a-protest-picture-id1238159558?k=20&#038;m=1238159558&#038;s=612x612&#038;w=0&#038;h=LUYz2FI30-BHn2qfL-mb-AGoWE_tCvIEOrvztrz7IuQ=\" alt=\"Protester holds a placard reading &#039;Shame on China&#039; during a protest march gathering Tibetans from the International Olympic Committee headquarters to...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>(VALENTIN FLAURAUD\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast I checked, that\u2019s a pretty abysmal thing to be associated with,\u201d said Matt Turpin, the former China director for the National Security Council. \u201cIn today\u2019s NBA, I guess it\u2019s not a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Tsai is prominently listed among the many American elites helping China to become a world leader in Peter Schweizer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/red-handed-peter-schweizer?variant=39402342055970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">book<\/a> <i>Red-Handed, How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, some of the technologies that Tsai has helped bankroll and invent have been used to detain and interrogate the NBA\u2019s own personnel in China.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Tsai and his wife, Clara Wu Tsai, have donated millions to various \u201csocial justice\u201d organizations in the U.S., including a $50 million donation to create the Social Justice Fund, a racial justice and economic recovery initiative in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>So, while Tsai donates to organizations in the U.S. that maintain that America is an irredeemably racist country, those he is financially connected to have helped China crackdown, imprison, torture, enslave, and murder millions of Uyghurs, Christians, Falun Gong members, freedom fighters, and others in China.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Joe Tsai seems emblematic of the NBA as his actions perfectly match the league\u2019s support for calling America an evil, racist place while turning a blind eye to their Chinese partners\u2019 overt racism and oppressive authoritarianism.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Thursday article, ESPN detailed the deep ties that billionaire Brooklyn Nets Owner Joe Tsai has to the authoritarian Chinese government and how those relationships \u201cpersonify\u201d the \u201ccompromise\u201d of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438092","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\/1438092","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\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438092\/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=1438092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}