Category: transnational repression

LIVE 10 AM ET: China’s ‘Transnational Repression’ Against Americans’ First Amendment Freedoms—A Hudson Institute Event

In a conversation hosted by the Hudson Institute on July 20, Levi Browde, executive director of the Falun Dafa Information Center; Olivia Enos, Washington director of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation; Ian Oxnevad, senior fellow for foreign affairs and security studies at the National Association of Scholars; and Ying Chen, conductor with…


LIVE NOW: China’s ‘Transnational Repression’ Against Americans’ First Amendment Freedoms—A Hudson Institute Event

In a conversation hosted by the Hudson Institute on July 20, Levi Browde, executive director of the Falun Dafa Information Center; Olivia Enos, Washington director of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation; Ian Oxnevad, senior fellow for foreign affairs and security studies at the National Association of Scholars; and Ying Chen, conductor with…


China’s ‘Transnational Repression’ Against Americans’ First Amendment Freedoms—A Hudson Institute Event

In a conversation hosted by the Hudson Institute on July 20, Levi Browde, executive director of the Falun Dafa Information Center; Olivia Enos, Washington director of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation; Ian Oxnevad, senior fellow for foreign affairs and security studies at the National Association of Scholars; and Ying Chen, conductor with…


US Religious Freedom Advocate Targeted by Chinese Hackers in Microsoft Breach

WASHINGTON—Religious freedom advocate Nina Shea didn’t think that she’d ever be a target of the Chinese regime. At the Hudson Institute think tank where she worked, there are more prominent critics of the communist regime like former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his former China policy advisor Miles Yu. But the expert recently found…


Death Threats and Bomb Scares

Commentary China’s transnational repression is hitting New Yorkers. On June 21, a former New York City cop, Michael McMahon, was convicted of acting as an illegal Chinese agent and stalking and intimidating a New Jersey resident. The victim, Xu Jin, was a former official from Wuhan, China. McMahon was hired as a private investigator to…


IN-DEPTH: Bribery Case Targeting Falun Gong Reveals CCP’s ‘Covert Warfare’ in US

Chen Jun, the man recently arrested over a bribery scheme to help the Chinese communist regime carry out its repression in the United States, is no stranger to sculptor Chen Weiming. He had heard Chen Jun’s threats years ago. “Let me tell you, if you have a Chinese passport, and we take a photo of…


IN-DEPTH: US Starts Dismantling the CCP’s Overseas ‘Mafia’ Apparatus

Yu Jing, who had escaped China after being persecuted for her faith, did not expect that she would feel her freedom threatened in her new-found home. Once an official with the state-run China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau in communist China, Yu lost her job and was subjected to three arrests and two house raids for her…


FBI Arrests 2 Over Secret Chinese Police Station in NYC

NEW YORK—The FBI arrested two people this morning in New York City for their role in operating a secret police station on behalf of China’s communist regime. FBI agents arrested Lu Jianwang and Chen Jinping in New York City on April 17 for their alleged role in conducting an international campaign of repression from a…


LIVE NOW: DOJ Announces Arrests in New York Related to National Security

United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Breon Peace; Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s National Security Division David Newman; Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) New York Assistant Director-in-Charge Michael Driscoll; and FBI Washington D.C. Assistant Director-in-Charge David Sundberg announce three cases on transnational repression at 1:00 p.m. ET…


DOJ Announces Arrests in New York Related to National Security

United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Breon Peace; Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s National Security Division David Newman; Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) New York Assistant Director-in-Charge Michael Driscoll; and FBI Washington D.C. Assistant Director-in-Charge David Sundberg announce three cases on transnational repression at 1:00 p.m. ET…