{"id":23249,"date":"2020-09-29T18:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/29\/tibetan-diaspora-spying-new-york-china"},"modified":"2020-09-29T18:00:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T09:00:13","slug":"tibetan-diaspora-spying-case-in-new-york-sows-distrust-and-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23249","title":{"rendered":"Tibetan diaspora spying case in New York sows distrust and confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An NYPD officer is accused of monitoring fellow Tibetan exiles on behalf of China in a case highlighted by Mike Pompeo<\/p>\n<p>For staff of the Tibetan community centre in the New York neighbourhood of Woodside, the alarm bells started ringing when a local police officer suggested that they should stop flying the Tibetan flag outside their building.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD officer \u2013 who was himself Tibetan \u2013 was a familiar face: Baimadajie Angwang had dropped by the <a href=\"https:\/\/tcnynj.org\/\">Tibetan Community of New York and New Jersey<\/a> several times in early 2019 with offers to help.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/29\/tibetan-diaspora-spying-new-york-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An NYPD officer is accused of monitoring fellow Tibetan exiles on behalf of China in a case highlighted by Mike PompeoFor staff of the Tibetan community centre in the New York neighbourhood of Woodside, the alarm bells started ringing when a local poli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,667,1298,609,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-espionage","category-new-york","category-tibet","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23272,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23249\/revisions\/23272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}