Eric Adams sports Chinese Communist Party scarves — but says they’re just innocent gifts

Eric Adams sports Chinese Communist Party scarves — but says they’re just innocent gifts Eric Adams and other officials at the Lunar New Year Parade in Brooklyn Eric Adams sports a CCP red scarf at the Lunar New Year Parade in Brooklyn Saturday. @NYCMayor New York City’s fashion conscious mayor has a new accessory — a red scarf that is a potent symbol of the Chinese Communist Party. Eric Adams has been repeatedly seen wearing the scarf, which represents the blood of the Chinese Red Guards who gave their lives for Communism, in the last few weeks. On Saturday, Adams was seen wearing two red scarves around his neck at the first annual Brooklyn Lantern Parade Saturday, and he wore another red scarf in Manhattan’s Chinatown on Sunday. Eric Adams at Lunar New Year event with red scarf around neck 10 Eric Adams sported a red scarf at Lunar New Year events he attended last weekend including this one in Flushing, Queens. The scarf is a potent symbol of the Chinese Communist Party. Adams was gifted a similar red scarf at the Prelude to the Lunar New Year at Cipriani Downtown, an event featuring a fashion show which was hosted by China Media Group, China’s state media company, on Jan. 26. State-controlled CCTV proudly reported on his presence at the gala. The eyebrow-raising accessory is hardly Hizzoner’s first fashion statement: the mayor, who is fond of bespoke suits, has used his clothes to comment on politics in the past. EXPLORE MORE Kathy Hochul stands at the Department of Taxation and Finance in Brooklyn with a sign in front of her announcing NYS cannabis enforcement. Hochul demands Google, Meta stop promoting illegal NY pot shops Eric Adams proposes U-turn on NYC’s controversial sanctuary city status after migrant crime wave grips Big Apple Asylum seekers stand in line at a makeshift campsite in the mountains near Jacumba Hot Springs, California, after crossing the border. The migrant surge brings killers and criminal gangs, victimizing innocents like Laken Riley He wore a custom handpainted tuxedo emblazoned with “End Gun Violence” by Nigerian artist Laolu to the Met Gala in 2022. But this might be the most politically intriguing of his clothing choices: China’s leader Xi Jinping has worn a red scarf, and when a New York non-profit set up a Chinese police station in Lower Manhattan — first revealed by The Post — the members of the Fuzhou Police Overseas Service Station posed with red scarves draped around their necks at their Chinatown office. Eric Adams 10 A greeter drapes a red scarf around Eric Adams’s neck at a Chinese Lunar New Year event at Cipriani Downtown last month. CCTV Mayor Eric Adams and Winnie Greco enter Chinese Lunar New Event at Cipriani Downtown last month 10 Eric Adams and Winnie Greco, the mayor’s Asian affairs specialist, attended the Lunar New Year event at Cipriani Downtown last month where the mayor was given a red scarf, similar to ones worn by members of the CCP. CCTV At least one of the mayor’s scarves, which he modeled in Manhattan’s Chinatown Sunday, was emblazoned with the white logo of Asian Community Empowerment Inc., a Brooklyn non-profit known by the acronym BRACE. Adams was photographed at the event with Winnie Greco, a controversial special advisor to the mayor who has worked as a “consultant” to CCP groups. A spokesperson for the mayor said he was unaware of the meaning of the scarf, which he was handed when he marched in Brooklyn’s lantern parade in Sunset Park, having been invited by local Councilmember Susan Zhuang. “Mayor Adams was proud to march 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. 10 Eric Adams and City Council member Susan Huang at the first annual Lantern Parade in Brooklyn Saturday. Eric Adams’s scarf with close-up of logo of a United Front-linked group, BRACE 10 Eric Adams’s scarf is emblazoned with the logo of BRACE, a Brooklyn-based non-profit that is a United Front-linked organization, @susanzhuangnyc/X “During the festivities someone handed Mayor Adams a red scarf and he put it on without looking at any logo on it. He wore that same scarf at the second event as well. That is the beginning and end of this story.” BRACE is headed by John Chan, who is also known as Chen Shanzhuang, a Chinese-born businessman who also runs the American Chinese Commerce Association.