{"id":778420,"date":"2026-05-07T00:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/778420\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T00:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:20:15","slug":"us-trial-opens-over-alleged-chinese-secret-police-station-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/778420\/","title":{"rendered":"US trial opens over alleged Chinese \u2018secret police station\u2019 in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

A trial of a US citizen of Chinese descent accused of creating a covert police station in Manhattan opened on Wednesday, considering evidence of what the US government says is part of Beijing\u2019s bid to expand its influence well beyond Chinese shores.<\/p>\n

Lu Jianwang, 64, faces three charges in the US Eastern District Court of New York: acting as an unauthorised agent of China; conspiracy to act as a foreign agent; and obstruction of justice. He is accused of using the fourth floor of a building in Manhattan\u2019s Chinatown to monitor and harass overseas Chinese, using the room as an unauthorised police station. Lu has pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n

A co-defendant in the case, Chen Jinping, pleaded guilty to working as an unauthorised agent for China<\/a> in December 2024. He has not yet been sentenced.
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02:22<\/p>\n

US federal agents arrest 2 men for running Chinese \u2018secret police station\u2019 in New York<\/p>\n

US federal agents arrest 2 men for running Chinese \u2018secret police station\u2019 in New York<\/p>\n

China\u2019s MPS, using overseas affiliates, attempts to identify \u201cfriends and allies\u201d who are \u201cfavourably inclined\u201d towards the Chinese government and Communist Party,\u201d Ku said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trial of a US citizen of Chinese descent accused of creating a covert police station in Manhattan…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":778421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,318820,9710,1121,318816,74,318815,15323,12783,91443,318821,318817,5249,318818,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,318819,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-778420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-america-changle-association","10":"tag-beijing","11":"tag-brooklyn","12":"tag-chen-jinping","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-chinese-embassy","15":"tag-chinese-government","16":"tag-fbi","17":"tag-fujian","18":"tag-julian-ku","19":"tag-lu-jianwang","20":"tag-manhattan","21":"tag-ministry-of-public-security","22":"tag-new-york","23":"tag-new-york-city","24":"tag-newyork","25":"tag-newyorkcity","26":"tag-ny","27":"tag-nyc","28":"tag-united-front-work-department","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-united-states-of-america","31":"tag-unitedstates","32":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","33":"tag-us","34":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}