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FBI director ‘very concerned’ by reports of secret Chinese police stations in US
Christopher Wray said the FBI was looking into the legal parameters of Chinese ‘police stations’ in the US Photograph: Michael McCoy/Reuters
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Christopher Wray says the FBI is investigating the existence of stations in New York, which could violate sovereignty
The United States is deeply concerned about the Chinese government setting up unauthorised “police stations” in US cities to possibly pursue influence operations, FBI director Christopher Wray has said.
“I’m very concerned about this. We are aware of the existence of these stations,” Wray told a US Senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee hearing, acknowledging the FBI’s investigative work on the issue but declining to give details.
“But to me, it is outrageous to think that the Chinese police would attempt to set up shop, you know, in New York, let’s say, without proper coordination. It violates sovereignty and circumvents standard judicial and law enforcement cooperation processes.”
Wray, asked by Republican Senator Rick Scott if such stations violated US law, said the FBI was “looking into the legal parameters”.
Safeguard Defenders, a Europe-based human rights organisation, published a report in September revealing the presence of dozens of Chinese police “service stations” in major cities around the world, including New York.
The report said the stations were an extension of Beijing’s efforts to pressure some Chinese nationals or their relatives abroad to return to China to face criminal charges. It also linked them to the activities of China’s United Front Work Department, a Communist party body charged with spreading its influence and propaganda overseas.
Republicans in the US House of Representatives, including Greg Murphy and Mike Waltz, sent letters to the Justice Department in October asking if President Joe Biden’s administration was investigating such stations and arguing they could be used to intimidate US residents of Chinese origin.
China’s embassy in Washington did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
Earlier this month, China’s foreign ministry denied it had such stations in the Netherlands after an inquiry by Dutch authorities. China said they were offices to help Chinese citizens renew documents.
Wray said the United States had made a number of indictments involving the Chinese government harassing, stalking, surveilling, and blackmailing people in the United States who disagreed with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
“It’s a real problem and something that we’re talking with our foreign partners about, as well, because we’re not the only country where this has occurred,” he said.
The United States unsealed criminal charges in October against seven Chinese nationals accused of waging a surveillance and harassment campaign against a US resident and his family in an effort by the Chinese government to repatriate one of them back to China.
It was the latest case by the Justice Department targeting China’s effort to track down people overseas who Beijing calls criminal suspects, known as “Operation Fox Hunt”.

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China hits back at FBI claim of unauthorized ‘police stations’ in US
China’s embassy said the US sites enabled Chinese nationals to renew driving licenses. ‘The US side should stop the groundless hyping of this issue.’ Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images
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Christopher Wray called foreign police presence in US ‘outrageous’ but Chinese embassy says sites are volunteer-run
China has contested claims it was operating unauthorized “police stations” on US soil, calling the sites volunteer-run, after the FBI director said he was “very concerned” about unauthorized stations that have been linked to Beijing’s influence operations.
Safeguard Defenders, a Europe-based human rights organization, published a report in September revealing the presence of dozens of Chinese police “service stations” in large cities around the world , including New York.
The FBI director, Christopher Wray, told a Senate hearing on Thursday that it was “outrageous” that the Chinese government would attempt to set up a police presence in the United States, saying it “ violates sovereignty and circumvents standard judicial and law enforcement cooperation processes ”.
China’s embassy in Washington acknowledged the existence of volunteer-run sites in the United States, but said they were not “police stations” or “police service centers”.
“They assist overseas Chinese nationals who need help in accessing the online service platform to get their driving licenses renewed and receive physical check-ups for that purpose,” an embassy spokesman, Liu Pengyu, said in an email to Reuters on Friday.
“They are not police personnel from China. The US side should stop the groundless hyping of this issue,” Liu said.
The embassy did not respond immediately to a Reuters request for a list of the sites. The FBI declined to comment beyond Wray’s remarks.
Earlier this month, China’s foreign ministry said the same about sites in Canada and the Netherlands after investigations were launched into their activities in the two countries. An investigation has also been launched in Germany, and members of the British parliament have called for investigations into similar sites.
Republicans in the US Congress, including Representative Jim Banks, have requested answers from the Biden administration about the operations of the sites.
Rights activists say the sites are an extension of Beijing’s efforts to pressure some Chinese nationals or their relatives abroad to return to China to face criminal charges, and have tied them to activities of China’s United Front Work Department, a Chinese Communist party body charged with spreading its influence and propaganda overseas.
Recently unsealed court documents in New York revealed new details on Chinese efforts to harass and surveil Chinese nationals abroad . In one case, a Chinese citizen living in Canada was pressured to return to China to face charges of embezzling nearly C$380,000 (US$280,000) in public funds.
Mark Clifford, president of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, said such stations needed to be “stopped in their tracks”.
“By allowing the CCP to operate these types of institutions in their countries, international governments are complicit in Beijing’s actions,” Clifford said.

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