The appearance of a Chinese government official at a New Year’s Eve event in Times Square has raised questions regarding how connected the local government is to agents of China’s communist regime.
The “Hong Kong Rocks!” event, organized by the Times Square Alliance and celebrated in Times Square this New Year’s Eve, gave pride of place to Huang Ping, the current consul general of the Chinese Embassy in New York.
Huang has earned a reputation over the years as a strident defender of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which rules China as a single-party state, and a denier of human rights abuses committed by the regime….