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China Spying In NY Leads to EDNY Indictments & SDNY Trial But UN Stonewalling & Ban of Press

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
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SDNY / UN GATE, March 16 – The day after the SDNY prosecution of Zhongsan Lui for illegal recruitment in the US was covered by Inner City Press alone (and the involved UN refused to answer Press questions on it), from EDNY this:

"Two complaints were unsealed and one amended complaint was authorized today in federal court in Brooklyn charging five defendants with various crimes related to efforts by the secret police of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to stalk, harass, and spy on Chinese nationals residing in Queens, New York and elsewhere in the United States. All of the defendants allegedly perpetrated transnational repression schemes to target U.S. residents whose political views and actions are disfavored by the PRC government, such as advocating for democracy in the PRC. In one of these schemes, the coconspirators sought to interfere with federal elections by allegedly orchestrating a campaign to undermine the U.S. congressional candidacy of a U.S. military veteran who was a leader of the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing, PRC. In another of these schemes, three defendants planned to destroy the artwork of a PRC national residing in Los Angeles, California that was critical of the PRC government, and planted surveillance equipment in the artist’s workplace and car to spy on him from the PRC. Fan “Frank” Liu and Matthew Ziburis were arrested yesterday, while Shujun Wang was arrested this morning. All three arrests occurred in the Eastern District of New York. The defendants’ initial appearances are scheduled this afternoon in Brooklyn before United States Magistrate Judge James R. Cho. The other two defendants remain at large. Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York said, “The complaints unsealed today reveal the outrageous and dangerous lengths to which the PRC government’s secret police and these defendants have gone to attack the rule of law and freedom in New York City and elsewhere in the United States."

What about the UN?

   Hours before the Beijing Winter Olympics a/k/a the Genocide Games kicked off, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres was there, issuing a canned video and equally canned read-out with the IOC's Thomas Bach. It was shameful.

 On February 18, before the end of the Games, a book is published: "Genocide Games of Guterres, In A Stormy Time: Silent on Uighurs Mass Incarcerated in Xinjiang, UN Is Complicit & Bans Press Which Covers DDC & Jho Low," here.

  Just after the Genocide Games - not during - Nils van der Poel of Sweden, who won two speedskating gold medals said: "The Olympics is a lot, it’s a fantastic sporting event where you unite the world and nations meet. But so did Hitler before invading Poland (Berlin hosted the 1936 Summer Games), and so did Russia before invading Ukraine [the first time?].   "I think it is extremely irresponsible to give it to a country that violates human rights as blatantly as the Chinese regime is doing." He added, tellingly, "I really think it’s terrible, but I think I shouldn’t say too much about it, because we still have a squad in China." What a travesty.

  This comes after even Foreign Affairs has said, albeit behind a paywall, "as if he’d somehow wandered into the wrong party, there was UN Secretary-General General António Guterres, who has distinguished himself with his silence on China’s human rights abuses.”

So why do people put up with Guterres? Inner City Press on January 24 in writing asked Guterres' spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming: "On SG Guterres' attendance at the upcoming Beijing Winter Genocide Olympics a/k/a Genocide Games, please immediately confirm knowledge by the UN of, and SG Guterres' response to, this letter." Nothing - no answer. Feb 19 song here


 The February 4 opening ceremony, Inner City Press live tweeted, thread here.

  Meanwhile at George Washington University in DC, a Chinese / China student group filed a complaint about posters and President Mark S. Wrighton responded: "Please know that I am personally offended by these posters. I treasure the opportunity to work with talented people from all over the world, including China. Your reaching out to me directly is much appreciated, and we are working to have all of these offensive poster removed as soon as possible. I, too, am saddened by this terrible event and we will undertake an effort to determine who is responsible."

 The posters created by Chinese dissident, artist Badiucao.

 What would happen to the posters inside the UN?

Before Inner City Press was thrown out, and kept out by Guterres and his lead censor Melissa Fleming, it had posted the sign of the Free UN Coalition for Access (FUNCA) on the inside of the glass door to its office. It was told a staffer of Fleming's department, the UN Media Accreditation and Liaison Unit, to take down the poster or being thrown out, that under the official UNCA / "UN Correspondents Association" sign was allowed. Inner City Press continued and continues to assert the right of the alternative FUNCA to exist, and was thrown out, and banned.

  Guterres' UN and China are much the same. Guterres ensures too that no journalist from Taiwan or any Taiwan based media can even come into the UN, as Inner City Press can't. And where is the US Mission and State Department? They have been asked, by a major law firm pro bono. Watch this site.

On February 5 the UN said Guterres "met with H.E. Mr. Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China, and H.E. Mr. Wang Yi, State Councilor and Foreign Minister, on the margins of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. He congratulated The People’s Republic of China for the organization of the Games and thanked the Chinese authorities for their warm hospitality.      The Secretary-General expressed his appreciation for China’s strong support to the United Nations." And himself, through briber CEFC China Energy.

On February 2 US Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon)  said, "It’s shameful for António Guterres to appear at the games. The U.N. has basically failed human rights."

 He may not know the half of it.

 Dujarric bragged that Guterres would  go "to Korea and then taking a plane to Beijing and then flying out commercially out of Beijing."

  So the plane to Beijing is not commercial. A CCP private jet like UN briber Ng Lap Seng, or Patrick Ho? During the Genocide Games, Guterres will be "in the [closed] loop" and will, Dujarric said, meet with Xi Jin Ping.

   The UN did not exist in 1936 but it seems clear that Guterres would have attended the Nazi Olympics, too. At least if they, like China through the China Energy Fund Committee, flashed cash at one of Guterres' undisclosed funders, the Gulbenkian Foundation, and ensured him five more years of impunity in a Manhattan mansion not far from Jeffrey Epstein's.

  Not asked about the state media allowed into the UN and Guterres' rare press conferences by his head of media accreditation Melissa Fleming, Guterres had received a letter to reconsider his attendance. Had Guterres answered, or even read it? Inner City Press would ask, if only in writing while it remains banned from entering the UN, and blocked on Twitter by China's Ambassador Zhang.
 
  The letter concludes, "as the highest representative of the UN, your attendance will be seen as credence to China’s blatant disregard for international human rights laws and serve to embolden the actions of the Chinese authorities. We therefore urge you to reconsider your decision to attend the 2022 Beijing Winter Games." Fat chance. Fat Tony. 

Sidebar on Tony's cronies: Qatar state media asked about why the UN escalators weren't working, to get him up the three flights of stairs to Al Jazeera's four large offices (there was, of course, a bank of elevators).   

    A retired French correspondent who had held a fundraiser with now-convicted global pedophile Ghislaine Maxwell asked a similar question in French. Dujarric, also French and a genocide denier for the UN's Secretary General who less gleefully covered up the Rwanda genocide, answered in French, and smiled.

     "No more questions?" Dujarric asked rhetorically, glancing down at the empty mirror of those the UN's media accreditation chief Melissa Fleming allow to ask questions remotely, as nearly every institution in this time of COVID-19, the link of which to Wuhan she spent public money to censor.    Then I leave you in the hands of Paulina Kubiak, Dujarric said.

  The second spokeswoman in only four months for UN General Assembly President Abdul Shahid of the Maldives, also purchased by China, also going to the Genocide Games.

  She spoke, without irony, about Shahid calling for an Olympic truce. This while the host was involved in the mass killing and incarceration of Uighurs in Xinjiang, or East Turkestan as many including Kurt Wheelock referred to it.

For her, there were no questions at all, not even about the escalator.   It was over. The UN's legitimacy had died long before. But this was a new low, and a new season. And a next text, follow-up to Belt and Roadkill: Genocide Games of Guterres.

The letter is signed by, among others, Mandie McKeown, Executive Director, International Tibet Network - on behalf of: Dorjee Tseten Dolkun Isa Frances Hui Students for a Free Tibet World Uyghur Congress We The Hongkongers Rushan Abbas Jenny Wang Tashi Shitsetsang Campaign for Uyghurs Keep Taiwan Free Tibetan Youth Association Europe John Jones Dr Zoe Bedford Teng Biao Free Tibet Australia Tibet Council China Against the Death Penalty 周锋锁 Zhou Fengsuo Mattias Bjornerstedt Bhuchung Tsering Humanitarian China Swedish Tibet Committee International Campaign for Tibet Lhadon Tethong Omer Kanat Tibet Action Institute Uyghur Human Rights Project Enghebatu Togochog Southern Mongolian Human Rights Center and the following organisations: ACT Tibetan Community Action Free Hong Kong Montreal Aide aux Refugies Tibetains Alberta Uyghur Association Amigos de Tibet, Colombia Amigos del Tíbet, Chile Amigos del Tíbet, El Salvador Anterrashtriya Bharat – Tibbet Sahyog Samiti AREF International Onlus Asociación Cultural Peruano Tibetana Asociación Cultural Tibetano Costarricense Association Cognizance Tibet, North Carolina Association Drôme Ardèche-Tibet Associazione Italia-Tibet Association of the New School for Democracy Atlas Movement Australia China Watch Australian East Turkestan Association Australian and New Zealand Alliance for Victims of the Chinese Communist Regime Australian Uyghur Association Australian Uyghur Tangritagh Women’s Association Austria Uyghur Association Bath District Tibet Support Group Bay Area Friends of Tibet Belgium Uyghur Association Bharrat Tibbat Sahyog Manch, India Birmingham Stands with Hong Kong Boston Tibet Network Boston Uyghur Association Briancon05 Urgence Tibet Bristol Tibet Burst the Bubble UK CADAL Canada Tibet Committee Canadian Coalition Against Communism Captive Nations Coalition Casa del Tibet – Spain Casa Tibet México Centro De Cultura Tibetana, Brazil China Alarm Circle of Friends (Philippines) Citizen Power Initiatives for China Comité de Apoyo al Tibet (CAT) Comité pour la Liberté à Hong-Kong Committee of 100 for Tibet Core Group for Tibetan Cause, India Cornell Society for the Promotion of East Asian Liberty Covenants Watch Czechs Support Tibet DC Chapter of China Democracy Party DC4HK - Washingtonians Supporting Hong Kong Defend Democracy Dream for Children, Japan Dutch Uyghur Human Rights Foundation East Turkistan Association in Finland East Turkistan Association of Canada East Turkistan Education Center in Europe East Turkistan New Generation Movement East Turkistan Nuzugum Culture and Family Organization East Turkistan Press and Media Organization Liberal Democratic League of Ukraine Lions Des Neiges Mont Blanc, FranceLungta Association Belgium Maison des HimalayasMaison du Tibet – Tibet Info Mavi Hilal Humanitarian Organization McGill Hong Kong Public Awareness and Social Service McMaster Stands With Hong Kong National Campaign for Tibetan Support, India National Democratic Party of Tibet Netherlands for Hong Kong Never Again Right Now Northern California Hong Kong Club Norwegian Tibet Committee Norwegian Uyghur Committee NY4HK Objectif Tibet Passeport Tibetain Ontario Hong Kong Youth Action (OHKYA) Perth Anti-CCP Association Phagma Drolma-Arya Tara Power to Hongkongers RangZen:Movimento Tibete Livre, Brazil Regional Tibetan Association of Massachusetts Roof of the World Foundation, Indonesia Sakya Trinley Ling Santa Barbara Friends of Tibet Save the Mongolian Language Save the Persecuted Christians Save Tibet Foundation Save Tibet, Austria Shukr Foundation Sierra Friends of Tibet Society for Threatened Peoples International Society Union of Uyghur National Association STAND Canada Stand With Hong Kong Vienna Stop Uyghur Genocide Canada Students for a Free Tibet – Canada Students for a Free Tibet – UK Students for a Free Tibet – Denmark Students for a Free Tibet – India Students for a Free Tibet – Japan Students for a Free Tibet – Taiwan Students For Hong Kong Support Hong Kong Independence Movement Sweden Uyghur Education Union Swedish Tibet Committee Swiss Tibetan Friendship Association (GSTF) Switzerland East Turkestan Association 台灣永社 Taiwan Forever Association Taiwan Friends of Tibet Taiwan East Turkistan Association Taiwan New Constitution Foundation Taiwan Association for Human Rights Taiwan Labour Front Tashi Delek Bordeaux The Youth Liberation Front of Tibet, Mongolia and Turkestan Tibet Action Group of Western Australia Tibet cesky (Tibet in Czech) Tibet Committee of Fairbanks Tibet Group, Panama East Turkistan Union in Europe Eastern Turkistan Foundation Eastern Turkistan Uyghur Association in Netherlands EcoTibet Ireland Étudiants Pour Un Tibet Libre Euro-Asia Foundation: Teklimakan Publishing House European Uyghur Institute Federation for a Democratic China Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong Foundation for Universal Responsibility of H. H. the Dalai Lama France-Tibet Freedom Ummah Free Indo-Pacific Alliance Free Tibet Fukuoka FREE TIBET ITALIA Friends of Tibet in Costa Rica Friends of Tibet in Finland Friends of Tibet New Zealand Friends4Tibet Germany Stands with Hong Kong Global Alliance for Tibet & Persecuted Minorities Global Solidarity with Hong Kong - Chicago Grupo de Apoio ao Tibete, Portugal Halifax-Hong Kong Link Hong Kong Committee in Norway Hong Kong Democracy Council Hong Kong Affairs Association of Berkeley (HKAAB) Hong Kong Forum, Los Angeles Hong Kong Liberty Hongkongers At McGill Hong Kong Outlanders Hong Kong Social Action Movements in Boston Hong Kongers in San Francisco Bay Area Human Rights Solidarity Human Rights Network for Tibet and Taiwan Ilham Tohti Initiative India Tibet Friendship Society International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China Institute for China's Democratic Transition International Pen Uyghur Center International Society for Human Rights- Sweden International Society of Human Rights, Munich Chapter International Support for Uyghurs International Tibet Independence Movement International Uyghur Human Right and Democracy Foundation Isa Yusup Alptekin Foundation Israeli Friends of the Tibetan People Japan Association of Monks for Tibet (Super Sangha) Japan Uyghur Association Jewish movement for Uyghur freedom Justice 4 Uyghurs Justice for Uyghurs - Switzerland Justice For All Canada Kazakhstan National Culture Center Latvia for Tibet Le Club Français, Paraguay Les Amis du Tibet – Belgium Les Amis du Tibet Luxembourg Tibet Initiative Deutschland Tibet Justice Center Tibet Lives, India Tibet Mx Tíbet Patria Libre, Uruguay Tibet Rescue Initiative in Africa Tibet Solidarity Tibet Society of South Africa Tibet Support Committee Denmark Tibet Support Group Adelaide Tibet Support Group Kenya Tibet Support Group Kiku, Japan Tibet Support Group Netherlands Tibet Support Group Slovenia Tibetan Association of Germany Tibetan Association of Ithaca Tibetan Association of Northern California Tibetan Association of Philadelphia Tibetan Community Austria Tibetan Community in Britain Tibetan Community in Denmark Tibetan Community in Ireland Tibetan Community of Italy Tibetan Community of Victoria Tibetan Community Sweden Tibetan Community, Queensland Tibetan Cultural Association – Quebec Tibetan Programme of The Other Space Foundation Tibetan Women’s Association (Central) Tibetans of Mixed Heritage Tibetisches Zentrum Hamburg TIBETmichigan Toronto Association for Democracy in China Torontonian HongKongers Action Group US HongKongers Club U.S. Tibet Committee Uigur Society of the Kyrgyz Republic Umer Uyghur Trust United Nations for a Free Tibet (UNFFT) Uyghur Academy Uyghur Academy Europe Uyghur American Association Uyghur Association of Victoria Uyghur Association of France Uyghur Center for Human Rights and Democracy Uyghur Cultural and Education Union in Germany Uyghur Education Union Uyghur Projects Foundation Uyghur Refugee Relief Fund Uyghur Research Institute Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project Uyghur Support Group Netherlands Uyghur Transitional Justice Database Uyghur U.K. Association Uyghur Youth Union in Kazakhstan Uzbekistan Uyghur Culture Center Vancouver Hong Kong Forum Society Vancouver Society in Support of Democratic Movement Viktoria Uyghur Association Voces Tibet World Uyghur Congress Foundation

 Will Guterres be taking his Deputy Amina J. Mohammed, supportive of the killing and targeted detentions perpetrated by Buhari of Nigeria? See, Identity Thieves - and, forthcoming, Genocide Games of Guterres. For now, Belt and Roadkill.   

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