Above a noodle shop in New York’s Chinatown, agents of the Chinese communist government reportedly operated an overseas police station for years. There are more than one hundred of them worldwide. They might not look like police stations. They may only be the back room to a restaurant, but they’re staffed by Chinese government officials.
The police stations along with so-called “aid stations” across the U.S. are used by the Chinese government to harass and threaten pro-democracy Chinese immigrants to stop speaking out against the regime and go back to China, even kidnapping them if necessary.
Pro-Democracy Activists Attacked by Chinese Agents on US Soil
One of their targets is Lijian Jie, a pro-democracy activist who was repeatedly tortured in Chinese psychiatric hospitals before he was able to flee to the U.S. where the persecution has continued.
Jie told us Chinese government hit-men in the Los Angeles area have tried to kill him three times, twice with a car and once by stabbing him in the neck, calling him a traitor as they fled the scene.
The world has known about these police stations for many months now. A key question for the U.S. government is why almost nothing has been done about it.
FBI Appears to Do Little About It
A recent New York Times report made it look like the FBI is on the case, highlighting a raid on the police station in New York’s Chinatown. But that raid happened last fall. And the FBI didn’t shut it down. It only gathered evidence.
When we asked the FBI if it has closed any of the police stations across the U.S. or brought charges against anyone…
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