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China hits back at FBI claim of unauthorized ‘police stations’ in US

Chinese and US flags on a Washington street
China’s embassy said the US sites enabled Chinese nationals to renew driving licenses. ‘The US side should stop the groundless hyping of this issue.’ Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images

China has contested claims it was operating unauthorized “police stations” on US soil, calling the sites volunteer-run, after the FBI director said he was “very concerned” about unauthorized stations that have been linked to Beijing’s influence operations.

Safeguard Defenders, a Europe-based human rights organization, published a report in September revealing the presence of dozens of Chinese police “service stations” in large cities around the world, including New York.

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