{"id":1941482,"date":"2023-05-31T17:38:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T21:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-call-for-action-as-china-turns-us-into-hunting-ground-for-dissidents\/"},"modified":"2023-05-31T17:40:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T21:40:35","slug":"republicans-call-for-action-as-china-turns-us-into-hunting-ground-for-dissidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-call-for-action-as-china-turns-us-into-hunting-ground-for-dissidents\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP urges action as China uses US as &#8216;hunting ground&#8217; for dissidents."},"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\">24<\/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%2Frepublicans-call-for-action-as-china-turns-us-into-hunting-ground-for-dissidents%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=1941482&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--><h2>Chinese Agents Indicted for Targeting Falun Gong in the US<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0531\/72fee40e-cc50-479e-b74d-105c43094452\/audio.mp3?length=6100173&#038;duration=508\"><\/div>\n<p>The recent indictments of two suspected Chinese agents in California are examples of how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is trying to turn the United States into a \u201chunting ground\u201d for dissidents, according to Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The two individuals attempted to bribe an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-army-vet-who-converted-to-islam-and-supported-violent-jihad-convicted-in-plot-to-bomb-california-rally\/\" title=\"U.S. Army Vet Who Converted To Islam And Supported Violent Jihad Convicted In Plot To Bomb California Rally\">undercover officer posing<\/a> as an IRS agent, in a plot to revoke the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leah-remini-says-her-16-year-old-daughter-keeps-her-woke\/\" title=\"Leah Remini Says Her 16-Year-Old Daughter Keeps Her \u2018Woke\u2019\">tax-exempt status<\/a> of an entity run and maintained by Falun Gong practitioners, according to the Department of Justice. They were arrested at their residences on May 26 and face charges of conspiracy, bribery, and money laundering.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis is another example of just how the CCP, the Communist Chinese Party, is doing all they can to undermine our sovereignty [and] silence all dissent even in our country,\u201d Newhouse told EpochTV\u2019s \u201cCrossroads\u201d on May 30.<\/p>\n<p>While U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has characterized the case as part of China\u2019s \u201ccampaign of transnational repression\u201d in the United States, Newhouse gave a blunt assessment of the situation.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI want to be clear about what I think this really means. This is a foreign government that is committing crimes against those that it deems to be a threat, right here on American soil,\u201d Newhouse said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The two suspected Chinese agents\u2014John Chen from California\u2019s Chino City and Lin Feng from Los Angeles\u2014\u200b\u200bcarried out their bribery campaign from January to May this year, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>According to a court document, Chen characterized one of the Chinese officials the two received \u201cdirection\u201d from as someone \u201cthat is always in charge of these matters,\u201d during an intercepted phone call. In other words, the unidentified Chinese official could be directly involved in China\u2019s ongoing persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China, possibly once having a position within the regime\u2019s extralegal body known as the \u201c610 Office.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Falun Gong and the 610 Office<\/h2>\n<p>Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline with slow meditative exercises and moral teachings. In 1999, the Chinese regime launched a persecution campaign against the group, throwing practitioners into prisons, labor camps, and brainwashing centers.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of practitioners have been subjected to torture while incarcerated, according to the Falun Dafa Information Center, while thousands have been killed as a result of torture and abuse in police custody. Owing to strict censorship in China, the actual death toll is likely to be many times higher.<\/p>\n<p>The 610 Office was set up in 1999 for the sole purpose of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. It was disbanded between 2018 and 2019 and its functions were merged into other CCP organs, according to internal documents obtained by The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5286366\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/23\/id5286366-EpochImages-3190856612-xl.jpg\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/23\/id5286366-EpochImages-3190856612-xl.jpg\" alt=\"Falun Gong practitioners march in Manhattan to celebrate World Falun Dafa Day, in New York, on May 12, 2023. (Larry Dye\/The Epoch Times)\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h2>Republican Lawmakers Call for Action<\/h2>\n<p>In response to the alleged bribery scheme against Falun Gong, two Republican lawmakers are calling for the government to confront China\u2019s actions in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) led a letter to Garland and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in October last year, following a report from Spanish human rights group Safeguard Defenders exposing China\u2019s New York-based police station. The group released an updated report two months later, stating that the station in New York was just one of four known Chinese police stations in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that the Chinese police station in New York was reportedly helping Chinese authorities coerce the regime\u2019s targets to go back to China, Banks wondered at the time whether the facility had received U.S. approval to establish the premise and stressed there \u201cshould be no room for the Chinese government to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-call-for-action-as-china-turns-us-into-hunting-ground-for-dissidents\/\" title=\"GOP urges action as China uses US as 'hunting ground' for dissidents.\">exercise extraterritorial law enforcement unilaterally<\/a> on U.S. soil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He believes that the Biden administration could have acted faster.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.) claims that the recent indictments of two suspected Chinese agents in California demonstrate the CCP&#8217;s efforts to make the US a &#8220;hunting ground&#8221; for dissidents. 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