ANALYSIS โ Highlighting the real domestic security threat by China, the FBI is apparently โvery concerned' about and investigating the alleged Chinese Communist (Chicom) police stations likely set up illegally in New York, among other cities.
This is yet another domestic security failure by a Biden administration obsessed with Jan. 6 and persecuting conservatives instead of combatting real foreign threats to the nation.
I have written about these dangerous and repressive Chicom police outposts in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere before. ย
While ostensibly run by China's Ministry of Interior via its police forces and using โvolunteers' the feared Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) โ which is both an intelligence and security service โ is likely heavily involved with this effort.
China claims the outposts are merely police service centers to help Chinese expats living abroad.
But if you believe that, there is also a bridge for sale in Brooklyn.
These outposts are mostly being used to monitor, coerce and sometimes forcibly remove Chinese dissidents living overseas.
The heightened scrutiny on them follows a Septemberย report by Safeguard Defenders, a Europe-based human rights organization, that revealed the existence of dozens of Chinese police โservice stations' in major cities around the world, including New York.
Safeguard Defendersย reported that China has set up at least 54 โoverseas police service stationsโ around the world, including one in New York City and three in Toronto. The group said its list was based on official statements, but the actual number may be higher.
While tasked with cracking down on Chinese-related illegal activities overseas, the police stations represent โthe latest iteration in [China's] growing transnational repression, where it seeks to police and limit political expression far beyond its own borders,โ the report said.
While congressional Democrats obsessed myopically on Jan. 6, Republicans in Congress have taken this Chicom threat seriously, requesting answers from Team Biden about their legality and influence.
And finally, we are seeing some response.
As Reutersย reported, Thursday, FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers at the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing that he is โvery concerned about this. We are aware of the existence of these stations.โ
However, Wray declined to detail the FBI's investigations into this threat.
Wray added:
I have to be careful about discussing our specific investigative work,ย but to me, it is outrageous to think that the Chinese police would attempt to set up shop, you know, in New York, let's say, without proper coordination. It violates sovereignty and circumvents standard judicial and law enforcement cooperation processes.
When asked by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., if such stations violated U.S. law, Wray said the FBI was โlooking into the legal parameters of itโย and had talked to the Justice Department and the Department of State about unsanctioned operations.
Wray added that the United States has indicted a number of Chinese government assets involved in harassing, stalking, surveilling and blackmailing opponents of China's leader-for-life Xi Jinping, who are living in the United States.
Many of these indicted assets were involved in a notorious Chicom effort to repatriate Chinese dissidents back to China known as โOperation Fox Hunt.โ
โIt's a real problem and something that we're talking with our foreign partners about, as well, because we're not the only country where this has occurred,โ Wray said.
According to the Associated Press,ย most of the Chinese overseas police stations are concentrated in Europe.
The Irish government said last month it had asked China to shut down a police station operating in Dublin, and the Dutch government said it was looking into whether two stations named in the report were established in the Netherlands.
In the two months since the Safeguard Defenders' report was released, at least 14 governments, including those of Britain, Canada and Germany, have opened investigations into the operations,ย according to Safeguard Defenders.
VOA Newsย reportedย that:
In response to China's increased use of transnational repression, the Biden administration has adopted a whole-of-government approach that includes visa restrictions, export controls, and the investigation and prosecution of perpetrators, Uzra Zeya, undersecretary of state for civilian security, democracy and human rights, told a congressional panel in June.
These are all good first steps, but much more needs to be done to neutralize China's extraterritorial repression inย the U.S. and alliedย nations.
And done so quickly.
Among additional moves,ย Team Biden must pressure all the nations listed as having extraterritorial Chinese police stations. This includes Germany, which sees no issues with the Chicom police outpost there.
But as with its meeknessย in facing Russia, Germany has a history of turning a blind eye to the threat posed by the Chinese Communists as well.
It's time the U.S. makes a very public example of โdelinquent' Germany,ย as Presidentย Trump did earlier.ย
But don't expect this current administration to doย much.ย ALD
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions ofย American Liberty News.
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17 Comments
Arrest Chinese posing as police officers, lock them up and throw away the key.
Why would our government allow a foreign country to set up their own police force in this country? There is something seriously wrong here, we must not have the whole, or real, story yet. Is this just one more way that we can see how China has the Biden family in their pocket? If we don’t get rid of Biden, or his replacement, in the 2024 election, and purge the rest of those left wing liberals, they will destroy our country. They show us everyday just how anti-America they all are.
And establishment rinos don’t want to impeach Biden! It appears this is proof positive, along with rinos sharing with dems, money laundering of the FTX PONZI scheme, that they together are one entity attempting to unilaterally control the will of the people
No surprise under Bozo Biden.
& Chinese spies in our colleges, companies,. in DC
in NGOs as well
Nationwide
This is yet another domestic security failure by aย Biden administrationย AND THE doj AND THE fbi obsessed with Jan. 6 and persecuting conservatives instead of combatting real foreign threats to the nation.
Why would the FBI worry about that? Doesn’t pay enough?
Of course there is.
Jeebus, maybe the fbi should concern itself with real threats and cease faking evidence to try and get Trump…..Unless the chinese commies have compromised the fib too…..likely.
Release of the Jan 6th political prisoners should be the new House’s first task….
The Communist China Party needs to be put on the TERRORIST LIST and their agents sent to prison for a very long time.
If the FBI is so concerned, why aren’t they arresting the Communist Chinese?
Better get a grip on it right now, Shut them down and get them out of the country before they populate across the country
Why doesn’t the FBI do their job, and run them out of our country? Oh that’s right, were only after domestic terrorists,trump supporters,teachers who want to know what their kids are being taught, and real patriots..
Worried about โChinese Police Stationsโ in the U.S. Order them closed RDN, RDN translates to Right Damned Now. What other countries accept is up to other countries.
So shut them down. Since when do foreign countries get to put police stations here.
Chris Wray is a Communist who says he is concerned but does nothing. Judge him by his actions, not the lies that come out of his mouth.