House Republicans Introduce Legislation Targeting Chinese Police Stations in US

On 18 March 2025, Nation­al Review report­ed that Repub­li­can law­mak­ers have intro­duced new leg­is­la­tion to counter Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Par­ty police sta­tions alleged­ly oper­at­ing with­in Amer­i­can bor­ders. The arti­cle begins:

Con­gres­sion­al Repub­li­cans are tar­get­ing Chi­nese police sta­tions oper­at­ing in the U.S. with new leg­is­la­tion designed to counter the Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Par­ty’s for­eign influ­ence oper­a­tions. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Ash­ley Hin­son (R., Iowa) intro­duced leg­is­la­tion Fri­day to impose finan­cial pun­ish­ments on the secret Chi­nese police sta­tions, which oper­ate under the guise of pro­vid­ing bureau­crat­ic ser­vices to Chi­nese cit­i­zens liv­ing abroad but actu­al­ly act as the enforce­ment arm of the CCP over­seas. The bill would also bol­ster the legal options avail­able for pros­e­cut­ing indi­vid­u­als engag­ing in Chi­nese intel­li­gence activ­i­ties, Nation­al Review has learned. “The Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Par­ty should have nev­er been able to oper­ate police sta­tions in the U.S. to sur­veil Amer­i­can cit­i­zens and harass Chi­nese cit­i­zens who have fled the Com­mu­nist regime,” Hin­son said…

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Key Points

• The Expel Ille­gal Chi­nese Police Act would impose sanc­tions, asset freezes, and visa restric­tions on indi­vid­u­als oper­at­ing Chi­nese police stations.
• Sen­a­tor Tom Cot­ton intro­duced com­pan­ion leg­is­la­tion in Jan­u­ary as chair of the Sen­ate Intel­li­gence Committee.
• The FBI pre­vi­ous­ly arrest­ed two men in 2023 oper­at­ing a Chi­nese police sta­tion in Man­hat­tan linked to Chi­na’s Min­istry of Pub­lic Security.
• Chi­nese author­i­ties alleged­ly main­tain sim­i­lar sta­tions in over 100 coun­tries to mon­i­tor regime crit­ics and pro­mote gov­ern­ment inter­ests abroad.

GIOR report­ed on 17 Octo­ber 2022 that Repub­li­can House mem­bers had queried then Pres­i­dent Biden’s cab­i­net sec­re­taries on what was described as a branch of the Chi­nese police that had opened in New York City. That report also not­ed that, accord­ing to human rights NGO Safe­guard Defend­ers, the Chi­nese gov­ern­ment had set up at least 54 police ser­vice sta­tions world­wide as part of its Unit­ed Front Work Depart­ment (UFW). The UFW is a key influ­ence and intel­li­gence arm of the Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Par­ty (CCP), tasked with co-opt­ing and mobi­liz­ing non-par­ty elites domes­ti­cal­ly and abroad to advance Beijing’s polit­i­cal agenda.

In Decem­ber 2004, the US Depart­ment of Jus­tice announced that Chen Jin­ping, 60, of New York, New York, plead­ed guilty to con­spir­ing to act as an ille­gal agent of the gov­ern­ment of the People’s Repub­lic of Chi­na (PRC) in con­nec­tion with open­ing and oper­at­ing an unde­clared over­seas police sta­tion, locat­ed in low­er Man­hat­tan, for the PRC’s Min­istry of Pub­lic Secu­ri­ty (MPS).

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