Confusion reigned last week when the State Department, Governor Kathy Hochul, and the Chinese consulate general made competing claims about the status of China’s top diplomat in New York. A federal indictment had just tied him to the alleged scheme of a former Hochul aide to subvert the state governor’s office for Beijing’s purposes.
Hochul said on Wednesday that she asked the State Department to expel Huang Ping, Beijing’s consul general in New York, and that she was informed he was no longer serving in that role. But State denied that the U.S. expelled him and said Huang had left when his term ended as scheduled in August. The consulate, meanwhile, said that Huang was performing his duties as usual.
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