New York City’s fashion-conscious mayor has acquired a new accessory: a red scarf, a powerful symbol of the Chinese Communist Party.
Eric Adams has been spotted repeatedly in recent weeks wearing a scarf representing the blood of the Chinese Red Guards who sacrificed their lives for communism.
On Saturday, Ms. Adams was seen wearing two red scarves around her neck at the first Brooklyn Lantern Parade on Saturday, and another red scarf in Manhattan’s Chinatown on Sunday. was.
Adams was presented with a similar red scarf. Prelude to the Lunar New Year A ceremony was held on January 26 at Cipriani Downtown, an event featuring a fashion show hosted by China Media Group, a state-run media company. State-run CCTV proudly reported his attendance at the celebration.
Eyebrow-raising accessories aren’t Hizzoner’s first fashion statement. The mayor, who loves bespoke suits, has used his clothes to comment on politics in the past.
He attended the 2022 Met Gala wearing a custom hand-painted tuxedo with the words “End Gun Violence” written on it by Nigerian artist Raolu.
But this may be the most politically intriguing of his clothing choices. Chinese leader Xi Jinping wears a red scarf and members of the Fuzhou Police Overseas Division as a New York nonprofit establishes a Chinese police station in lower Manhattan, first revealed by the Post posed with a red scarf draped around her neck in her Chinatown office.
At least one of the scarves the mayor modeled in Manhattan’s Chinatown on Sunday featured the white logo of Asian Community Empowerment Inc., a Brooklyn nonprofit known by the acronym BRACE.
Adams was photographed at the event with Winnie Greco, the mayor’s controversial special assistant who works as a “consultant” for Chinese Communist Party groups.
A spokesperson for the mayor said he did not know the significance of the scarves he was given when he marched in a lantern parade in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park at the invitation of local councilor Susan Chuan.
“Mayor Adams was proud to participate in two Lunar New Year parades this weekend to honor the tens of thousands of New Yorkers who celebrate the holiday,” a spokesperson told the Post.
“Someone handed Mayor Adams a red scarf during the festival, and he put it on without looking at the logo. He wore the same scarf at the second event. That’s where this story begins and ends. is.”
BRACE’s president, John Zhang, also known as Chen Shanzhuang, is a Chinese-born businessman who also runs the American Chinese Business Association. BRACE is also affiliated with the United Front, a group of Chinese Communist Party-affiliated organizations whose mission is to spread communism outside China.
Mr. Zhang has recently demonstrated in support of President Xi and has previously organized protests against Falun Gong., According to China.org, the religion is banned by China as an “evil cult.”
A spokesperson for the mayor said Adams was “not friends with John Chan and has never supported BRACE or any other organization he is associated with.” The Mayor participated in these events to support New York City’s local Chinese community and Congressman Zhuang. ”
BRACE was originally founded in 2014 as Brooklyn Asian Community Empowerment, but changed its name five years later, according to public records.
The group was incorporated by Chan in 2000 and changed its name to the Chinese Business Association of America (HK) in 2013, according to public documents.
Last November, Mr. Zhang and the American Chinese Chamber of Commerce welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to San Francisco for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference.
However, he was not part of the official delegation and used a loudspeaker to participate in a protest that erupted into scuffles between pro-Xi and anti-Xi factions.
An Oakland-based photographer who covered the APEC protests said Mr. Zhang and others wore American Chinese Business Association pins featuring the Chinese and American flags as anti-Chinese Communist Party demonstrators stood across the street at the Yerba Buena Arts Center. He said he approached a group of people. The street where Mr. Xi was staying.
“He was very angry with the anti-Chinese Communist Party forces,” photographer Kim Jun-ho told the Post on Tuesday.
In December, Mr. Chan’s American Chinese Business Association sponsored a small group of New York Republicans, including Congressional Minority Leader Will Barclay, to visit China and meet with officials and business leaders. This was revealed by the Times Union.
Mr. Zhang has a long history of activism, including raising a party flag in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1999 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Chinese communism, and a year later doing the same in Flushing, Queens.
“He was a Chinese national,” a man who identified himself as an interpreter said when the newspaper called Chan on Tuesday. “That’s the only reason he has these organizations. He denies they are a united front.”
