{"id":222658,"date":"2026-05-06T23:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/222658\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T23:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:58:08","slug":"us-trial-opens-over-alleged-chinese-secret-police-station-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/222658\/","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":2,"featured_media":222659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[87606,7440,98,87601,827,87600,39170,5970,87605,87607,87602,75,87603,9,11,10,87604],"class_list":["post-222658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america-changle-association","tag-beijing","tag-brooklyn","tag-chen-jinping","tag-china","tag-chinese-embassy","tag-chinese-government","tag-fbi","tag-fujian","tag-julian-ku","tag-lu-jianwang","tag-manhattan","tag-ministry-of-public-security","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-united-front-work-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}