Secret China Police Stations Discovered in New York City

By Rich Kozlovich 

This video,  Secret China police stations discovered in New York City, appeared last week, and it turns out this isn't just New York.  It appears, China has opened overseas police stations in US and Canada to monitor Chinese citizens,which the police in Canada are now investigating.

China has opened dozens of "overseas police service stations" around the globe to monitor its citizens living abroad, including one location in New York City and three in Toronto.

"These operations eschew official bilateral police and judicial cooperation and violate the international rule of law, and may violate the territorial integrity in third countries involved in setting up a parallel policing mechanism using illegal methods," reads a report by Safeguard Defenders, a human rights watchdog, released earlier this month.

The report, titled "110 Overseas: Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild," details China's extensive efforts to combat "fraud" by its citizens living overseas, in part by opening several police stations on five continents that have assisted Chinese authorities in "carrying out policing operations on foreign soil."

It appears  China has opened dozens of  overseas police service stations" around the globe to monitor its citizens living abroad in order to target dissidents perpetrating what the Chinese government is calling "fraud". 

China has reportedly established dozens of “overseas police stations” in nations around the world that activists fear could be used to track and harass dissidents as part of Beijing’s crackdown on corruption.  Information about the outposts underscored concerns about the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s influence over its citizens abroad, sometimes in ways deemed illegal by other countries, as well as the undermining of democratic institutions and the the theft of economic and political secrets by bodies affiliated with the one-party state.\

And these nations aren't happy about this.  Netherlands probes 'illegal' Chinese police stations. 

Dutch media reports that overseas Chinese police centers are putting "pressure on dissident Chinese." An NGO report says that Bejing has such centers in "dozens of countries across five continents."  

 

In this article by By Lily Zhou, Ireland Orders Closure of Chinese Police ‘Service Station’ in Dublin, she states: 

An unofficial Chinese police station in Dublin has been told to shut down, the Irish government confirmed on Wednesday. Safeguard Defenders, a human rights NGO that uncovered the existence of the overseas Chinese police stations last month, applauded the Irish government for taking a “great first step” while urging it to investigate “the wider issue at stake.” The so-called service station, which shares an address with a Chinese supermarket in Dublin, is one of the dozens of such stations peppered around Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, according to a Safeguard Defenders report published on Nov. 13.

While the Chinese government tries to claim these "stations" were set up to provide services for Chinese citizens living abroad, it's clear these are illegal international spy cells set up to intimidate these immigrants, and it's worked.  It's claimed "230,000 Chinese nationals had been “persuaded to return” to face criminal proceedings in China." Their crimes?  They say unkind things about the Chinese Communist Party, no matter how true they may be, like possibly exposing their crimes against humanity?  Imagine that! 

The author goes on to state:

Authorities in other countries, including Canada, Spain, and the Netherlands, have also started investigating the police stations.  On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced charges against 10 Chinese intelligence officers and officials over three separate cases, including one involving allegedly coercing a Chinese dissident to return to China.  The UK government on Oct. 18 introduced legislation which, if becomes law, will require foreign agents to register their activities in the UK.

The arrogance of the Chinese Communist Party is mind boggling, but more importantly, these kind of strategies make it clear China is the world's number one enemy, economically, militarily and philosophically, and I think this is going to back fire on them.  

Also, I think the fact Xi is again going to continue to rule China, probably forever now, is a good thing.  Because Xi didn't rise to the pinnacle of power in China because of merit.  He rose through the ranks via nepotism and chicanery.  The fact is, he's not the brightest pebble in the brook, and he's as arrogant, ruthless and incompetent as was Mao, and will be leading them down an economic and social path to their detriment, and to the advantage of the rest of the world.