{"id":1970351,"date":"2023-07-11T23:11:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T03:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senators-urge-feds-to-probe-ccp-service-centers-operating-in-us\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T23:12:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T03:12:07","slug":"gop-senators-urge-feds-to-probe-ccp-service-centers-operating-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senators-urge-feds-to-probe-ccp-service-centers-operating-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Senators Call for Federal Investigation into CCP \u2018Service Centers\u2019 in US"},"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%2Fgop-senators-urge-feds-to-probe-ccp-service-centers-operating-in-us%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=1970351&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 class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0712\/ac39a013-bb40-4825-beb5-fd5f4e18f094\/audio.mp3?length=6282477&#038;duration=524\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Republican Senators Demand Answers on Chinese Communist Party Outposts in the US<\/h2>\n<p>Republican senators have requested the Justice Department and FBI provide information about seven newly-identified Chinese Communist Party (CCP) outposts operating on U.S. soil.<\/p>\n<p>The outposts, called Overseas Chinese Service Centers (OCSC), are run by the CCP\u2019s United Front department, a powerful agency that works to advance the regime\u2019s interests abroad, including by carrying out foreign influence operations, suppressing dissident movements, gathering intelligence, and facilitating the transfer of technology to China.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from ties to the Party, senators in two letters on July 10 raised concerns about the potential cooperation between the centers and the regime\u2019s top police agency, the Ministry of Public Security.<\/p>\n<p>They pointed to a 2018 meeting between representatives of the service centers in the United States and Chinese police officers, during which the OCSC staffers studied \u201ccross-border remote justice services\u201d launched by the Public Security Bureau and the courts in Wenzhou, a city in eastern Zhejiang Province, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vn\/Gaia7\">Qiaowang<\/a>, a state-run media.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/speech\/principal-deputy-assistant-attorney-general-david-newman-delivers-remarks-announcing\">warned<\/a> that the Ministry of Public Security conducts \u201cintelligence and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-has-edward-snowden-gone-underground-since-ukraine-invasion\/\" title=\"Why Has Edward Snowden Gone Underground Since Ukraine Invasion?\">national security operations<\/a> far beyond China\u2019s borders, including the illicit, transnational repression schemes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe write to express our grave concerns regarding reports of \u2018Overseas Chinese Service Centers\u2019 (OCSCs) operated by an intelligence service of the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC) in conjunction with the PRC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hispanic-world-celebrates-dia-de-los-reyes-christian-feast-of-the-magi\/\" title=\"Hispanic World Celebrates Dia de los Reyes, Christian Feast of the Magi\">national police force<\/a>,\u201d senators, led by Ted Budd of North Carolina, wrote in a Monday letter (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.romney.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Budd-Letter-to-DOJ-re-Overseas-Chinese-Service-Centers11.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) to Attorney General Merrick Garland.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and seven other Republican senators called for an immediate probe of the regime\u2019s U.S.-based service stations in a Monday letter (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackburn.senate.gov\/services\/files\/D1EDEA8F-76A8-4163-820A-5F40BBD0ABF0\">pdf<\/a>) to FBI Director Christopher Wray and the Justice Department\u2019s Assistant Attorney General for National Security Division Matthew Olsen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CCP\u2019s intent is clear with its operation of these OCSCs: to intimidate and surveil Chinese Americans with dissenting opinions,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>As of September 2017, the CCP has established over 60 service centers across five continents, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/utahccc.org\/shoupai.html\">statement<\/a> by the Utah branch.<\/p>\n<p>There are at least seven outposts currently operating in the United States. According to China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinaqw.com\/hzzx\/\">state media<\/a>, they\u2019re in Charlotte, North Carolina; San Francisco, California; Houston, Texas; Omaha, Nebraska; St. Paul, Minnesota; Salt Lake City, Utah; and St. Louis, Missouri. The presence of the outposts was first identified by The Daily Caller.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is launching a probe into the reported presence of the Chinese service center in the state.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5209282\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20\/id5209282-EpochImages-8217252654-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\tA balloon is held at a press conference and rally in front of the America ChangLe Association highlighting Beijing\u2019s transnational repression, in New York City on Feb. 25, 2023. A now-closed overseas Chinese police station is located inside the association building. (Samira Bouaou\/The Epoch Times)<br \/>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n<h2>FBI And DOJ Probe<\/h2>\n<p>The revelation of more CCP\u2019s agencies operating in the country came after the Justice Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/fbi-arrests-2-for-operating-secret-chinese-police-station-in-nyc_5200542.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charged<\/a> two New Yorkers over allegedly running a secret CCP police station in Manhattan\u2019s Chinatown.<\/p>\n<p>The police station in Manhattan is believed to be part of more than 100 overseas stations operated by the Chinese regime in 53 countries, according to Safeguard Defenders, a Spain-based nonprofit.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said the two men conspired to work as agents of the CCP and took orders from the regime in order to track down and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/doj-charges-2-suspected-chinese-agents-for-targeting-falun-gong-in-the-us_5295028.html\">silence Chinese dissidents<\/a> living in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust as troubling, in February, the U.S. Air Force shot down a Chinese spy balloon that had traveled through U.S. airspace for several days, an apparent act of provocation by the CCP,\u201d Ms. Blackburn and seven senators wrote in the letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaken together, these troubling events demonstrate the need to take serious the real and ongoing threats that China poses to our national security. Thus, it is imperative for the Biden administration to act decisively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They provided Mr. Wray and Mr. Olsen with a list of questions regarding the CCP\u2019s outposts, including whether they agreed \u201cthe intent of these OCSCs is to coerce and surveil Chinese Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reached for comment, an FBI spokesperson said they received the letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGenerally speaking, the FBI conducts logical, fact-based investigations and follows the evidence wherever it may lead. We\u2019re increasingly conducting outreach in order to raise awareness of how some countries\u2019 governments harass and intimidate their own citizens living in the U.S. This violates U.S. law and individual rights and freedoms, and will not be tolerated,\u201d the spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email.<\/p>\n<h2>DOJ Briefing Requested<\/h2>\n<p>OCSCs are part of the eight projects launched in 2014 by the regime\u2019s Overseas Chinese Affairs Office (OCAO), which are aimed at providing services to overseas Chinese, and \u201cgiving full play to their strength to achieve the China Dream,&#8217;\u201d according to office\u2019s official website. China Dream is a slogan associated with the CCP\u2019s top leader Xi Jinping, who has vowed to transform the country into a superpower by 2049.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the OCAO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.cn\/zhengce\/2018-03\/21\/content_5276191.htm#1\">moved<\/a> under the control of the CCP\u2019s United Front Work Department (UFWD).<\/p>\n<p>In the letter to Mr. Garland, the senators cited a 2016 report (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscc.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2019-11\/Chapter%202%2C%20Section%203%20-%20China%27s%20Intelligence%20Services%20and%20Espionage%20Threats%20to%20the%20United%20States.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which characterized the agency as Beijing\u2019s intelligence service.<\/p>\n<p>The UFWD \u201cmostly focuses on the management of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senators-urge-feds-to-probe-ccp-service-centers-operating-in-us\/\" title=\"GOP Senators Call for Federal Investigation into CCP \u2018Service Centers\u2019 in US\">potential opposition groups inside<\/a> and outside China, and on neutralizing sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its superiors in the CCP,\u201d the report stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican senators have urged the Justice Department and FBI to disclose details on seven recently discovered Chinese Communist Party (CCP) outposts in the US. These outposts, known as Overseas Chinese Service Centers (OCSC), are managed by the influential United Front department of the CCP. 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