Posted on 12/19/2024 8:25:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
As far back as two years ago, we were reporting here at PJ Media that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) might be running secret Chinese police stations in American cities. Even though the CCP wanted us to believe that these entities were convenience centers for Chinese nationals, it became obvious that these stations were a little slice of Red Chinese authoritarianism in the U.S.
In October 2022, my PJ Media colleague Kevin Downey, Jr. first brought this to our attention:
The human rights watchdog group Safeguard Defenders is claiming that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has established a network of Chinese police stations across the globe, including three in Toronto and one in New York City. The Chinese initially asserted that the police stations were there to help their nationals do things like keep their driver’s licenses current, which they can do at their embassy.
Soon after, they added the goal of stopping “online” and “telecom fraud,” but it’s starting to look like the Chinese are using these police stations to spread Chinese propaganda and keep an eye on anyone who dares disagree with the Commies back in China. Many Chinese nationals have been “persuaded” into returning home to face “charges.”
A Chinese man living in the Big Apple pleaded guilty this week to helping set up one of those Chinese secret police stations in the city. The man and his co-defendant began setting up a “branch of China’s Ministry of Public Security,” as the Associated Press describes it, in Chinatown in early 2022.
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Chen Jinping, 60, entered the guilty plea on a single count of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government in Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday.
Matthew Olsen, an assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice, said Chen admitted in court to his role in “audaciously establishing an undeclared police station” in Manhattan and attempting to conceal the effort when approached by the FBI.
“This illegal police station was not opened in the interest of public safety, but to further the nefarious and repressive aims of the PRC in direct violation of American sovereignty,” he said in [a] statement, referring to the People’s Republic of China.
Chen and his co-defendant, Lu Jianwang, “performed basic services, such as helping Chinese citizens renew their Chinese driver’s licenses, but also identified pro-democracy activists living in the U.S., according to federal authorities.” The duo shuttered their operation in the fall of 2022 when the FBI began investigating “transnational repression,” and they deleted communications with CCP officials from their devices as the investigation heated up.
Could they please go out and take care of some of our evildoer then? Chicom police are much more effective than ours.
Headline says “American”, article says “Chinese man.”
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