The unofficial overseas Chinese police stations around the world that have grabbed headlines in recent months are used to surveil and suppress dissidents, says a Chinese police chief in a 2019 paper he authored on these so-called overseas police “service stations.” Details about the operation of the stations are documented in an April 2019 journal…

The Chinese embassy in London has been told to shut down any so-called police service stations in the UK, British security minister Tom Tugendhat said on Tuesday. In a written statement to Parliament, Tugendhat said the police so far haven’t found evidence of illegal activity at the addresses associated with the alleged Chinese police outposts. The…

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has confirmed it will not renew an agreement signed with China after international human rights groups allege it allowed Beijing to abuse human rights internationally. On May 25, AFP officials told the Senate that the agency would not renew its memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed with China’s National Commission of…

The congressional committee tasked with overseeing the threat posed by China’s communist regime is demanding answers from the FBI, saying that the bureau may have been unaware of secret Chinese police stations on U.S. soil until public reporting broke the story. The House Select Committee on Strategic Competition with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sent…

China has been operating overseas police stations in G20 member states in the name of hunting down fugitives and recovering stolen assets. But according to a former Chinese diplomat, the presence of Chinese officers overseas is an open attack on the free societies in the host nations, and that China’s ruling communist party has shifted from…

Beijing’s operation of over 100 overseas police stations worldwide—with some allegedly used for transnational repression—has inspired other authoritarian regimes to “copy” such efforts, MPs on the House Canada-China committee heard on March 20. Expert witness Laura Harth, campaign director for human rights NGO Safeguard Defenders, was asked by Liberal MP Peter Fragiskatos at the committee…

In addition to the one Chinese police station in Sydney that has drawn public concern recently, one more contact point linked to Beijing has been identified in Australia, according to a new report by the international human rights group Safeguard Defenders. The “service centre” is among 48 Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-operated illegal police outputs globally that have…

A nonprofit group has discovered 48 new overseas police stations with ties to China’s communist regime, including two previously unknown facilities in Los Angeles and New York City. The new findings bring the total number of known overseas police stations to 102 spread out across 53 nations. The facilities have been used by the Chinese…

A nonprofit group has discovered 48 new overseas police stations with ties to China’s communist regime, including two previously unknown facilities in Los Angeles and New York City. The newly identified sites are among more than 100 police outposts that are spread out across 53 nations. The facilities have been used by the Chinese Communist…