During a Senate hearing on threats to the U.S. homeland, FBI Director Christopher Wray was quizzed about Chinese efforts to use their own police to surveil dissidents inside the United States.
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“It’s been reported that the Chinese Communist Party is operating police stations in the United States in an effort to surveil Chinese dissidents,” said Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida.
“Seems obvious the US shouldn’t allow its most significant geopolitical rival, an oppressive Communist regime, to establish police stations in the U.S.,” Scott said. “What authority or jurisdiction does the CCP have in the U.S.?”
“I’m very concerned about this,” Wray said. “We are aware of the existence of these stations.”
“The reason this is so important is because we have seen a clear pattern of the Chinese government, the Chinese Communist Party, exporting their repression right here into the U.S,” Wray said.
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“We’ve had now a number of indictments that you may have seen of the Chinese engaging in uncoordinated law, quote unquote, law enforcement action, right here in the United States, harassing, stalking, surveilling, blackmailing people who they just don’t like or who disagree with the XI regime,” he said.
Wray went on to say that the Chinese government has hired private investigators in the United States “to essentially be their agents, to conduct some of this work.”
Wray said there have even been situations where electronic listening devices have been planted in Americans’ cars.
“It’s important that Chinese-Americans and Chinese dissidents who are here know to call the FBI, to report when they think they may have been targeted with this,” he said.
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