Two GOP lawmakers have called for closing the Consulate General of China and the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in New York City following the arrest of two people on charges of operating a secret police station in the city on behalf of China’s regime.
In September 2022, a report by Safeguard Defenders alleged agents of the Chinese regime had been covertly operating in several countries, using secret police stations as a base of operations to surveil Chinese dissidents, and even coercing Chinese expatriates to return to China.
Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) cited the report on a secret police station in New York City, believed to be one of more than 100 such stations operated by the CCP’s agents around the world….