Why the hell do Democrats want Chinese police stations in America?

wildchild · Dec 15, 2022

I get it that most of the democrat party are really communists at heart, but to be bold enough to actually allow Chinese police stations in the US is pretty crazy.

Frederick Foresight · Dec 15, 2022

Hey, wildchild, are you still in touch with Mr. Osborne?

mervyn · Dec 15, 2022

Reputable source link please

ph1l · Dec 15, 2022

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fb...ned-by-chinese-police-stations-us-2022-11-17/

3 minute readNovember 17, 20224:17 PM CSTLast Updated a month ago
FBI director 'very concerned' by Chinese 'police stations' in U.S.
By Michael Martina
and Ted Hesson

FBI Director Christopher Wray gives a statement during a U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on "Security threats to the United States", on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 17, 2022. REUTERS/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades

WASHINGTON, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The United States is deeply concerned about the Chinese government setting up unauthorized 'police stations' in U.S. cities to possibly pursue influence operations, FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers on Thursday.

Safeguard Defenders, a Europe-based human rights organization, published a report in September revealing the presence of dozens of Chinese police "service stations" in major cities around the world, including New York.

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Republicans in Congress have requested answers from the Biden administration about their influence.

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The report said the stations were an extension of Beijing's efforts to pressure some Chinese nationals or their relatives abroad to return to China to face criminal charges. It also linked them to activities of China's United Front Work Department, a Communist Party body charged with spreading its influence and propaganda overseas.

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"I'm very concerned about this. We are aware of the existence of these stations," Wray told a U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, acknowledging but declining to detail the FBI's investigative work on the issue.

"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."

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Wray, asked by Republican Senator Rick Scott if such stations violated U.S. law, said the FBI was "looking into the legal parameters."

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives, including Greg Murphy and Mike Waltz, sent letters to the Justice Department in October asking if President Joe Biden's administration was investigating such stations and arguing they could be used to intimidate U.S. residents of Chinese origin.

China's embassy in Washington did not respond immediately to a request for comment.

Earlier this month, its foreign ministry denied it had such stations in the Netherlands after a probe by Dutch authorities. China said they were offices to help Chinese citizens renew documents.

Wray said the United States had made a number of indictments involving the Chinese government harassing, stalking, surveilling, and blackmailing people in the United States who disagreed with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

"It'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," he said.

The United States unsealed criminal charges in October against seven Chinese nationals accused of waging a surveillance and harassment campaign against a U.S. resident and his family in a bid by the Chinese government to repatriate one of them back to China.

It was the latest case by the Justice Department targeting China's effort to track down people overseas who Beijing calls criminal suspects, known as "Operation Fox Hunt."
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Cuddles · Dec 15, 2022

ph1l said:
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Keen readers will note that "operation fox hunt" and "operation skynet" has been ongoing for years and it wasn't until Joe Biden took over that this started being investigated. MAGA let them go unimpeded much like in HK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fox_Hunt

ph1l · Dec 15, 2022

Cuddles said:
Keen readers will note that "operation fox hunt" and "operation skynet" has been ongoing for years and it wasn't until Joe Biden took over that this started being investigated. MAGA let them go unimpeded much like in HK.

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Perhaps Joe "Big Guy Gets 10 Percent" Biden had some motivation?
https://news.yahoo.com/gop-lawmakers-demand-explanation-deeply-214511249.html

GOP lawmakers demand explanation for 'deeply troubling' Chinese police station in New York City

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October 11, 2022·4 min read

The reported presence of China’s Fuzhou police in New York City has prompted a group of Republican House lawmakers to seek answers from President Biden’s Cabinet Secretaries.

Headed by Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks (R, IND-3), Reps. Michael Waltz (R, FL-6) and Mike Gallagher (R, WI-8), the group of 21 lawmakers sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Attorney General Merrick Garland to demand answers on how the Chinese police were able to establish a branch in the U.S.

“We are writing to express our grave concern over reports of the law enforcement presence of the People’s Republic of China in New York City,” the letter began.

The letter further states, “The Public Security (Police) Bureau of Fuzhou, China, announced in January 2022 that it has opened the ‘first batch’ of 30 overseas police service stations in 25 cities in 21 countries. In the United States, the Fuzhou Police’s overseas service station is hosted at the American Changle Association, an overseas Chinese hometown organization in New York City.”

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Human rights NGO Safeguard Defenders reported last month that the Chinese government has set up at least 54 police service stations worldwide as part of its United Front Work Department.

According to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, the United Front Work Department operates under the Chinese Communist Party to direct thousands of groups in conducting operations involving foreign political influence, dissident movement suppression, intelligence gathering and technology transfer.

In a report, the New York Post uncovered that the station in Lower Manhattan is being operated by nonprofit America ChangLe Association NY Inc., a group that has been blacklisted by the IRS.

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The group, which listed its charitable mission in public filings as a “social gathering place for Fujianese people,” paid $1.3 million for the suite of offices where the Fuzhou Police Overseas Chinese Affairs is situated.

In their letter to Biden’s officials, the GOP lawmakers accused the Chinese police service stations of coercing “purported Chinese fugitives abroad to return to China to face legal proceedings, which is euphemistically dubbed as ‘persuading to return’ in Chinese parlance. By doing so, China avoids scrutiny on its human rights record in relation to repatriating alleged fugitives overseas by eschewing formal international cooperation mechanisms.”

“It is deeply troubling that the Chinese government could use these service stations as its long arm policing abroad,” the letter read, adding, “there should be no room for the Chinese government to exercise extraterritorial law enforcement unilaterally on U.S. soil.”

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The letter ended with several questions to Blinken and Garland:

“Considering the importance to safeguard the liberty of U.S. persons and the sovereignty of the United States from foreign encroachment, we request that you kindly respond to the following questions by October 21st, 2022,

Did the Department of State, Department of Justice, or any other agency of the federal government invite or approve China’s Fuzhou police to establish a presence in New York City?

Is there any other Chinese law enforcement presence in the United States besides Fuzhou police’s overseas services station in New York City?

Has the Biden administration rescinded the visa restrictions imposed by the previous administration on Chinese nationals engaged in United Front work activities?

Has the Department of State issued any visas to Chinese nationals to perform law enforcement or other related government duties at the Fuzhou Police Overseas Service Station in New York City?

Have the Fuzhou Police Overseas Service Station in New York City and any of its employees registered with the federal government in accordance with [the] Foreign Missions Act and Foreign Agents Registration Act?

Has the Fuzhou Police Overseas Service Station in New York City engaged in any activities to monitor [or] harass U.S. residents or has it coerced any purported fugitive to go to China without due process under U.S. law?”

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elderado · Dec 15, 2022

But wait! There's more!

https://babylonbee.com/news/china-threatens-to-fire-senators-who-voted-for-tiktok-ban/

wildchild · Dec 16, 2022

mervyn said:
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Way to be so informed!

exGOPer · Dec 16, 2022

ph1l said:
Perhaps Joe "Big Guy Gets 10 Percent" Biden had some motivation?
https://news.yahoo.com/gop-lawmakers-demand-explanation-deeply-214511249.html
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Fake News, you should read the 'emails' yourself instead of letting NYCompost do the thinking for you.

wildchild · Dec 16, 2022

exGOPer said:
Fake News
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exGOPer = Disinformation

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fb...ned-by-chinese-police-stations-us-2022-11-17/

FBI director 'very concerned' by Chinese 'police stations' in U.S.