Late last year, according to reports, federal law enforcement officers searched a building in New York’s Chinatown as part of the FBI’s efforts to control a covert Chinese police unit that is allegedly gathering information on the Chinese diaspora and harassing dissidents.
According to the New York Times, there was a Chinese outpost on the third level of the six-story office building that the federal government claims was conducting police activities outside of its legal purview or without the diplomatic blessing of American officials.
As part of the U.S. government’s crackdown on communist China’s notorious attempt to watch its citizens, hunt down dissidents abroad, and force them to return to China, FBI counterintelligence officers conducted the raid in collaboration with the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn.
“Operation Fox Hunt” is the name of China’s international campaign, which is active in several nations.
China, which is renowned for making patently misleading claims, made an effort to minimize the work that these police centers undertake by implying that it was just a few volunteers that assisted individuals in getting things like a driver’s license.
The Times looked at a number of domestic reports that revealed Chinese officials boasted about how well the “overseas police service centers,” which gather intelligence for the Chinese government, worked. Later, many of the reports were removed from China’s website.
“From the perspective of human rights, it’s really concerning.” Igor Merheim-Eyre, a Slovakian member of the European Parliament, “claimed that by not enforcing our own national laws, we are effectively allowing the Chinese diaspora to be governed by communist China. That, of course, has a significant impact on both national sovereignty and our relationships with the Chinese diaspora in Europe.”
