A Chinese official who has made controversial statements in the past, including denying China’s alleged genocide against the Uyghurs, met with one of the largest media companies in the United States after visiting lawmakers, scholars, and an economic council in Pennsylvania.
“Chinese Consul General Huang Ping visits Condé Nast and meets with Chief Executive Officer Roger Lynch and Global Chief Revenue Officer Pam Drucker Mann to talk about the growth of the Chinese market,” a post on the website of Condé Nast, a U.S. mass media company that owns brands such as Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, and Glamour, stated on Nov. 2.
Condé Nast’s website links to an official Chinese government post where the office of Huang Ping, consul gGeneral of the People’s Republic of China in New York, says the U.S. magazine publisher “introduced the group’s global business development and operations in China in detail.”
“China’s cultural industry has strong demand and is developing vigorously. It is hoped that Condé Nast will seize the opportunities of China’s high-quality development and high-level opening up, continue to delve into the Chinese market, promote people-to-people and cultural exchanges, and contribute more wisdom to the healthy, stable and sustainable development of Sino-US relations.”
The Chinese government’s post touted Conde Nast as a “large media group headquartered in New York” that “has more than 1 billion consumers in 32 countries and regions around the world. It entered the Chinese market in 2005 and has branches in Beijing and Shanghai.”
Huang Ping, who’s been the consul general of China’s New York Consulate since 2018, previously called the CCP a “great party” and has denied that China is targeting the Muslim Uyghur population in China.
“There are lots of lies here, fabricated by some people with their own political agenda,” Huang said in an August 2021 interview, denying the existence of genocide and internment camps targeting Uyghurs. “As I said, there’s no genocide, not a single evidence to prove that there’s a genocide or something there. It’s just a slandering.”
In addition to praising the CCP, Ping has repeatedly promoted CCP talking points on his X, formerly known as Twitter, account and amplifies the agenda of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Ping’s statements haven’t stopped him from meeting with elected officials, scholars, and business leaders across the United States including a recent stop in Pennsylvania where he met with Democratic state senators, the Chester County Economic Development Council, and University of Pennsylvania faculty.