A move by the FBI to arrest two men in New York over accusations that they ran a clandestine “police station” to carry out operations on behalf of the Chinese government has drawn attention to the country’s alleged harassment of overseas-based dissidents.
Following a raid on a Fujianese community centre in Chinatown in October, federal operatives moved to arrest American citizens “Harry” Lu Jianwang, 61, from the Bronx and Chen Jinping, 59, from Manhattan this week, accusing them of being “agents of the PRC [People’s Republic of China] government” and “obstructing justice by destroying evidence of their communications” with a Ministry of Public Security [MPS] official.
