New York Man Found Guilty Of Operating Chinese Communist Party Police Station In Manhattan

Even as President Donald Trump touted diplomatic progress during his trip to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, evidence of China’s ongoing infiltration into US society continued to emerge this week.

The latest evidence comes from New York City, where a jury convicted a man of operating an illegal police station in Manhattan that had been under direct orders from Chinese Communist Party leaders in Beijing.

The Daily Caller provided these alarming details:

Lu Jianwang was also convicted of obstructing justice for deleting online messages, according to a Justice Department (DOJ) press release. Prosecutors said the messages featured orders from Beijing to silence, harass, and intimidate dissidents, The Associated Press (AP) reported. Jianwang, who also goes by the name Harry Lu, established a Chinese police station in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood in 2022 with his co-defendant Chen Jinping, the DOJ said. 

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“A police station operating in New York City at the direction of the Chinese government has been exposed, its sinister purpose disrupted, its founder held accountable for blatantly disregarding the law and our country’s sovereignty,” U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella said.

Prosecutors said Jianwang set up the station after attending a Fujian province event where China’s Ministry of Public Security announced it was opening 30 secret police stations globally.

Jianwang’s lawyer, John Carman said he planned to appeal the conviction and denied that his client had engaged in espionage.

“This is not espionage. This is not spying. This is not intelligence gathering,” Carman said following Jianwang’s week-long trial in Brooklyn federal court, according to the AP. “He wasn’t charged with any of that.”

News of the conviction quickly spread via social media:

Communist China ran a secret “police station” – in Manhattan – in broad daylight.

Time to shut them all down & hold the CCP accountable. https://t.co/aKUeG3Z7Pt

— Protecting America Initiative (@ProtectUSInit) May 14, 2026

wonder how many more of these things are still out there

— ShogunX (@WisdomItod81685) May 14, 2026

They were doing it during Covid at we were shut down on old Twitter for saying it.

— Tired of being politically correct (@USBornNRaised) May 6, 2026

As Chinese officials reportedly promised, there’s evidence that this was hardly the only CCP-linked secret police station operating on US soil.

The Hill reported these stats about three years ago:

According to one assessment, at least 102 known or suspected Chinese overseas police stations are currently active in 53 countries. The real number is undoubtedly higher. In the U.S., stations have been identified in New York City, Los Angeles, Houston and San Francisco, as well as smaller cities in Nebraska and Minnesota. 

In 2014, with minimal regard for the sovereignty of other countries, the CCP launched “Operation Fox Hunt,” to repatriate overseas Chinese fugitives whom it deems to be corrupt officials. Within its first six months, 680 fugitives were reportedly returned to China. 

In 2015, Operation Sky Net was established as a parallel program to apprehend overseas Chinese dissents accused of financial crimes. The tactics deployed in these operations vary from detaining family members back in China to outright kidnappings abroad. 

Since 2014, Chinese police reportedly made some 10,000 Chinese fugitives abroad return to China. This shows that the CCP doesn’t recognize international borders and brazenly violates the sovereignty of the U.S. and other countries by sending police officers far outside their jurisdiction.  

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