The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was apparently not happy that a sculpture criticizing its leader Xi Jinping was on display in the United States, so the regime’s agents went to work. They hired a private investigator in New York and a former correctional officer in Florida in a conspiracy to try to shame and discredit the sculpture’s artist. That’s according to federal prosecutors who unveiled the alleged scheme earlier this week, describing the efforts as part of the communist regime’s wider campaign to spy on, harass, and intimidate Chinese dissidents abroad. Two out of the three charged in the plot, Liu Fan, a president of a purported New York-based media company, and the correctional officer Matthew Ziburis were arrested in New York on March 15, according to the Justice Department (DOJ). They worked under the direction of Sun Qiang, a China-based individual who allegedly acted as an intermediary for the …