{"id":1642014,"date":"2022-09-15T15:04:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T19:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1642014"},"modified":"2022-09-15T15:04:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T19:04:59","slug":"china-expands-its-secret-police-stations-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-expands-its-secret-police-stations-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"China Expands Its Secret Police Stations Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-expands-its-secret-police-stations-around-the-world%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1642014&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">China uses 54 overseas police stations, including in New York City, to hunt down citizens<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tChinese president Xi Jinping \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/karl-salzmann\/\" title=\"Posts by Karl Salzmann\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Karl Salzmann<\/a> \u2022 September 15, 2022 3:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>China has opened up its latest secret &#8220;overseas police service centers&#8221; in Chinese restaurants and shops throughout the United Kingdom, the <i>Telegraph<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2022\/09\/14\/china-opens-unofficial-police-stations-britain-hunt-people-return\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party runs 54 police centers outside of China, 36 in Europe alone. One of the two in London claims to be a real estate company, while one in Glasgow operates in a Chinese restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion of these overseas police stations comes as human rights activists warn that China is harassing political dissidents on foreign soil. Some political exiles say China is misusing Interpol to bring back dissidents, including foreign nationals, the <i>Telegraph<\/i>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2022\/01\/29\/china-may-using-interpol-target-dissidents-political-opponents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the stations say they help Chinese travelers with paperwork, researchers have found that they are actually &#8220;hunting down and blackmailing Chinese citizens to force them to return home.&#8221; According to the human rights organization Safeguard Defenders, the centers&#8217; activity &#8220;is all taking place under the radar,&#8221; unseen by police and the public.<\/p>\n<p>One Chinese secret police center operates in New York City, the <a href=\"https:\/\/safeguarddefenders.com\/sites\/default\/files\/pdf\/110%20Overseas.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Safeguard Defenders report<\/a>\u00a0found.<\/p>\n<p>Officers at a center in Madrid tracked down a man and forced him to take part in &#8220;a video call with public security agents and a prosecutor&#8221; in China.<\/p>\n<p>The centers also extort people into returning to China by &#8220;threatening to cut electricity to the homes of families&#8221; and &#8220;restricting access to public schools for relatives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By blackmailing Chinese citizens instead of &#8220;following formal extradition proceedings,&#8221; Beijing lessens Western governments&#8217; &#8220;scrutiny of its human rights record,&#8221; the Safeguard Defenders report found.<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s Home Office told the <em>Telegraph<\/em> that &#8220;any requests for repatriation of suspected foreign criminals must be made in accordance with U.K. and international law,&#8221; adding that &#8220;illegal repatriation efforts will not be tolerated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When the <i>Telegraph<\/i> reached out to one center in London, a worker lied to the paper, saying the police station only helps &#8220;overseas Chinese extend their Chinese driver&#8217;s licenses and arrange required health checks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The stations are affiliated with the United Front Work Department, a Communist Party organization that has deep ties to the Biden administration. The think tank founded by Biden energy czar John Podesta, for example, has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/china-hawks-sound-alarm-over-podesta-appointment\/\">worked extensively<\/a> with a United Front organization. The president&#8217;s son, Hunter Biden, helped a United Front Work Department group gain a foothold in the United States, the <i>Washington Free Beacon<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/whatever-you-need-how-hunter-biden-helped-the-ccps-premier-influence-group-gain-a-us-foothold\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security China uses 54 overseas police stations, including in New York City, to hunt down citizens  Chinese president Xi Jinping \/ Getty Images  Karl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}