An American has entered a guilty plea to the “crime” of assisting the Chinese government in operating the first “known” covert police station in the United States.
According to the BBC, prosecutors claim that Chen Jinping and his co-defendant Lu Jianwang established and ran the covert station in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood in early 2022 on behalf of China’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS).
According to reports, China has established at least 100 of these stations in 53 different nations. Right-wing organizations claim Beijing utilizes these outposts to “threaten” and “monitor” Chinese nationals living overseas.
China has refuted these claims, claiming that they are “service stations” that provide administrative support to its citizens abroad.
