by Patrick Dooney at Law Enforcement Today
Last month, Law Enforcement Today reported on a number of Chinese-operated “police service centers” that have been opened outside of mainland China, 110 in total we are told. That piece may be found below.
That includes several in the United States, including one in New York City, The Epoch Times reports.
Despite reasons given by China for the presence of these centers, the true reason is to repatriate Chinese people who have relocated in the United States through coercion, according to a security policy expert. However there is probably something much more nefarious involved he says—sabotage or espionage.
Frank Gaffney is the executive chairman at the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Security Policy. Gaffney believes that as part of the Chinese Communis Party’s (CCP) “global transnational repression,” the Chinese police service centers are more likely to be used as a means to conduct espionage and sabotage operations.
“The Chinese are not simply forcing people to go back to China and stand trial, but they may be giving them directions to do other things,” he suggests, including “espionage, recruitment, influence operations, sabotage or subversion,” Gaffney told the “China in Focus” program on NTD News.
Gaffney said it is important for the United States government to “ensure” those operations “do not continue.”
He went on to describe the CCP’s police operations as…
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