IN-DEPTH: US Starts Dismantling the CCP’s Overseas ‘Mafia’ Apparatus

By Eva Fu May 10, 2023

Yu Jing, who escaped China after being persecuted for her faith, did not expect that she would feel her freedom threatened in her newfound home.  Once an official with the state-run China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau in communist China, Yu lost her job and was subjected to three arrests and two house raids for her faith in Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa.   The spiritual practice involves a set of moral teachings with truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance as its core principles, as well as five meditative exercises. By 1999, an estimated 70 million to 100 million people were practicing in mainland China. Viewing the practice’s popularity as a threat to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) power, then-leader Jiang Zemin ordered a brutal nationwide campaign of suppression that continues today.............“Never would I imagine that in a free society like the United States, these pro-Chinese Communist Party agents could be so out of control,” she told The Epoch Times, recalling her shock at the time.  Many in the overseas Chinese dissident community have long known such pro-Beijing protesters to be organized by local groups closely tied to the CCP.  A federal indictment last month confirmed this connection..........To Read More......

FBI Arrests 2 Over Secret Chinese Police Station in NYC - By Andrew Thornebrooke and Eva Fu April 17, 2023Updated: April 24, 2023 - The FBI arrested two people on April 17 on charges of operating a secret police station in New York City on behalf of China’s regime, according to the Justice Department (DOJ). The duo, Lu Jianwang, 61, and Chen Jinping, 59, conspired to work as agents of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and took orders from the regime in order to track down and silence Chinese dissidents living in the United States, prosecutors said. The police station is believed to be one of more than 100 overseas stations operated by the Chinese regime in 53 countries, according to Safeguard Defenders, a Spain-based nonprofit.  The effort revealed an immense violation of U.S. sovereignty by the CCP and a flagrant violation of international law, according to U.S. District Attorney Breon Peace...........