‘This Is A Disgrace’: Experts, GOP Reps Call On The Biden Admin To Shut Down A Secret Chinese Police Station In NYC

The U.S. government must launch a probe into the Chinese overseas law enforcement operation in New York City, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation, as other countries raise the alarm over reports of police stations on their soil.

“How in God’s name could they openly have these communist police stations in our country?” Beau Dietl, retired NYPD detective, told the DCNF.

“This shows the Chinese Communist Party is not afraid to exert its will outside of China, and we should do all that we can to counter this behavior,” Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch of Idaho told the DCNF.

The U.S. government must immediately investigate and shutter the recently discovered overseas Chinese government police station in New York City for potential violation of U.S. laws, several experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

In 2022, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) established secret police stations in over 100 cities around the world to conduct intimidation and harassment operations against overseas Chinese, human rights organization Safeguard Defenders revealed in a September report. While other countries have announced probes into the alleged police stations, the location within American Changle Association — a Chinatown community organization in New York City — continues to operate outside legal boundaries and should be shut down, experts told the DCNF.

“This is a disgrace. How in God’s name could they openly have these communist police stations in our country?” Beau Dietl, a retired NYPD detective and current head of Beau Dietl & Associates private investigation firm, told the DCNF. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Chinese Donor, Fundraiser For NYC Mayor Eric Adams Worked Closely With Communist Party Influence Operation)

“Let’s try and go to Beijing and open up an American police station over there,” Dietl said. “The government of the United States should deal with this and throw them the hell out.”

The police stations, designated as “110 Overseas” — in reference to China’s emergency telephone number — bill themselves as purportedly helping overseas Chinese obtain driver’s licenses, manage dispute resolution and resolve vaguely defined “difficult problems,” according to Chinese media.

However, they also conduct “foreign strike operations” against individuals who run afoul of the CCP through intimidation, blackmail and forcible arrest, according to Safeguard Defenders. The Chinese government claims these operations aim to crack down on drug smuggling and telecommunications fraud.

“There has been a noticeable uptick in incidents where the Chinese government is targeting people on other nations’ soil,” Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch of Idaho, who also serves on the Senate’s intelligence committee, told the DCNF. “This shows the Chinese Communist Party is not afraid to exert its will outside of China, and we should do all that we can to counter this behavior.”

China’s overseas police stations enable the CCP to illegally monitor and oppress dissidents across the globe, Conor Healy, director of government research at the video surveillance research organization IPVM, told the DCNF. “I have met many individuals who have fled China fearing for their lives, who go on to be harassed and threatened in Canada and in the U.S.,” said Healy, who provided testimony on China’s surveillance state during the 2021 Uyghur Tribunal proceedings.

New York’s 110 Overseas police station remains active, despite 20 members of Congress urging Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Attorney General Merrick Garland to take action in an October letter.

“We should not allow China to export its coercive and aggressive tactics anywhere in the United States. They most certainly should not be allowed to exercise extraterritorial law enforcement on American soil,” Republican Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado, who signed the letter, said to the DCNF.

“My colleagues and I join other nations in calling for these unlawful activities to be shut down immediately and demand accountability from the Biden Administration as to why they were even allowed in the first place.”

Several countries also raised the alarm after Safeguard Defenders released its report, some announcing formal investigations into the police stations and others demanding the police bureaus suspend operations immediately.

Ireland was the first to call for an investigation of China’s police stations on Oct. 8, the Irish Times reported, and ordered it shut down on Oct. 27.

Shortly thereafter, the governments of Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Canada and Germany took action in quick succession, according to multiple media reports.

The Netherlands and the U.K. followed suit and made official announcements on Tuesday; the Dutch foreign minister, Wopke Hoekstra, ordered the shuttering of China’s police stations, NL Times reported, and the U.K. security minister, Tom Tugendhat, announced the government would intensify efforts to prevent the harassment of political dissidents, according to Politico.

“You have to ask permission from the host country,” Hoekstra said, according to NL Times, referring to Chinese law enforcement operations within the Netherlands’ borders. “… That has not happened.”

The State Department declined to respond to a DCNF inquiry regarding whether the U.S. would initiate an investigation into China’s police station in New York City. It remains unclear whether the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., or the consulate in New York City notified federal authorities of the police stations, according to the letter from Congress.

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied the existence of the police stations, instead portraying them as overseas “service centers.”

“Chinese public security authorities strictly observe international law and fully respect the judicial sovereignty of other countries,” foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Oct. 27.

“I’m outraged. They should have closed this down immediately,” Gordon G. Chang, author of “The Coming Collapse of China,” told the DCNF. “The Chinese are aggressive. They’ll do whatever they can get away with, and we have to acknowledge that.”

The Chinese Embassy, New York City Chinese Consulate, America Changle, FBI, Department of Justice, NYPD and several New York and federal lawmakers did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment.

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Biden’s significant China tour after 32 years
2011-08-17 05:22

by Wu Liming

BEIJING, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will visit China on Wednesday, 32 years after he first came to China as a member of the first U.S. delegation following the normalization of China-U.S. relations.

Biden has witnessed the ups and downs of the bilateral ties between the two countries over the past three decades and more. When he set foot on China in 1979, the two countries had just ended decades of hostility and signed a joint communique establishing diplomatic relations, setting the cornerstone for bilateral ties.

By the time Chinese President Hu Jintao visited the United States in January this year, the relationship between both countries had grown into a cooperative partnership based on mutual respect and common interest.

Biden’s current visit to China may well be considered a continuation and extension of his China tour 32 years ago. It is a relay of the drive to deepening the U.S.-China relations.

“A rising China is a positive, positive development, not only for China but for America and the world writ large,” wrote Biden 32 years ago as a young member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Addressing the opening session of the U.S.-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue in May, Biden said he still maintained his words from over three decades ago.

Thanks to the efforts from both sides, China-U.S.relations have gained tremendous momentum in the 21st century. Bilateral cooperation have extended to a wide range of fields including politics, economy, science, culture and other major international and regional issues.

Just as Biden himself put it, “It’s no exaggeration to say that our relationship and how we manage it will help shape the 21st century.”

The United States and China are the first and second biggest economies in the world, with close economic ties.

According to U.S. statistics, the United States exported over 110 billion U.S. dollars’ worth of goods and service to China last year, which helped to create more than 500,000 jobs in the United States.

With a combined share of one-third of the world’s economy and one-fifth of the world’s trade volume, China and the United States share ties that go beyond their boundaries and have profound global impact.

The international community would be more than happy to see China and the United States join hands to tackle global challenges and strive for a robust, sustainable and balanced world economy.

Exchange of high-level visits across the Pacific Ocean had served to promote China-U.S. relations. The New York Times said in a recent article that Biden’s coming China tour is aimed primarily to consolidate ties with the Chinese leadership.

It is true that China and the United States have differences. However, the two countries’ common interest far outweighs their differences. Or as Biden put it, “We have much more to agree on than to disagree on.”

If they adhere to the principle of equality and mutual respect, the two countries will be able to broaden their common ground and manage to handle properly the thorny issues between them.

As the United States’ largest foreign creditor, China has much at stake over U.S. economic policy changes and a stable U.S. dollar. Therefore, Washintong’s handling of all the related issues in a responsible manner will contribute to the steady growth of China-U.S. ties and the stable development of the world economy given the mounting concern about European and U.S. debt woes and fragile global economic recovery.

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