Friedrich Naumann Foundation under Chinese fire

San Francisco last week
by Ric e Ette via FlickrChina's official news agency Xinhua has identified the German Friedrich Naumann Foundation as a major force behind the anti-Tibet riots, worldwide. The German foundation, closely related to the liberal FDP-party, is also active in China. The consequences could be pretty huge for the foundation that is in China mainly working with the trade unions. According to the Xinhua dispatch:

"the campaign is being orchestrated from a Washington-based headquarters," it added. "It had been assigned the task of organizing worldwide 'protests' at a conference organized by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in May 2007," the report said.
According to a news report by Canadian journalist Doug Saunders, the Brussels conference organized by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNSt) gave the impetus to the current anti-Chinese Tibet campaign that forced the interruption of the Olympian Torch Relay in Paris last Monday.

Most of the evidence does not come from the article, which does not mention the foundation at all, but from some home work by Xinhua journalists. The original story, published the end of March in the Globe and Mail, you can find here.
In the story I have seen and was the basis of the Xinhua attack that there is no link to the German foundation. It is a nice and detailed account of how the coordination between the anti-China campaigns has been organized, but even Germany as a country is only mentioned once in a totally unrelated way.
The Xinhua attack relates to this meeting, mentioned in the article:

Last May, the Dalai Lama's Tibetan government-in-exile put together a meeting in Brussels of all the major Tibet organizations — there are hundreds, and they're organized under a Washington-based umbrella group, the International Tibet Support Network. There, the exiled Tibetans decided that the Olympics should be the single focus of their activities for the next 15 months, and they hired a full-time organizer for the Olympic-disruption campaign.

I guess, for Chinese standards this conspiracy has been proved and that might have severe consequences for the China-based operations of the Foundation.
(Spelling name corrected!)