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China decries US 'secret police' arrests

Lu Jianwang, 61, a US citizen charged with conspiring to act as an agent of the Chinese government by helping set up a Chinese “secret police station” in New York, and his lawyer Deidre von Dornum exit the Brooklyn federal court after Lu posted bail in New York City on Monday. (Photo: Reuters)

China said on Tuesday that “political manipulation” was behind the arrests of two men the United States accused of setting up an unauthorised Chinese police station in New York.

Authorities in the city also charged dozens of Chinese security officials in connection with what they said was a campaign to monitor and harass US-based dissidents.

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