China's Covert Police Stations Spread Across the US
Beijing has been operating overseas police stations in multiple countries, including the US, Canada, and Europe, to harass and silence critics around the world. Security agencies across Europe and the Americas are investigating more than 100 facilities that an advocacy organization exposed in September as overseas outposts of China’s security apparatus. The stations provide civilian cover for Chinese government operations deemed too risky for official Chinese diplomats to pull off. Investigations into other outposts are ongoing in countries including the United Kingdom, Japan, and the Netherlands, but there have been no arrests of individuals connected with those operations.
