US Report Highlights Covert Chinese Operations to Silence, Punish Critics Abroad

The State Department highlighted the Chinese regime’s extensive operations to silence its targets in the United States and elsewhere, deploying tactics such as stalking, forced disappearances, and projecting police power overseas. The groups the regime goes after include persecuted minority groups, dissidents, Chinese students abroad, and adherents of spiritual faiths, according to the department’s April 22 human rights report. The tactic, known as transnational repression, received worldwide attention after a human rights group revealed a network of extralegal Chinese police stations in countries around the world, including several in the United States. The Justice Department in April 2023 charged two men with operating such a station in New York. The men allegedly organized counterprotesters to undermine demonstrations from the persecuted faith group Falun Gong, stalked democracy activists, and harassed dissidents on behalf of China’s communist authorities....