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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Julian Borger in Washington

FBI arrests two New Yorkers accused of running covert Chinese police station

A six-story glass facade building, center, is believed to be the site of a foreign police outpost for China in New York's Chinatown.
A six-story glass facade building, center, is believed to be the site of a foreign police outpost for China in New York's Chinatown. Photograph: Bebeto Matthews/AP

The FBI has arrested two men accused of running a covert station for China’s police force in New York, and using it as a base to track Chinese dissidents living in the US.

The station, in Manhattan’s Chinatown, was allegedly set up in February 2022 and operated by Beijing’s ministry of public security (MPS) as part of a campaign of transnational repression against Chinese pro-democracy activists and other political opponents around the world.

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