The House Select Committee on China is preparing new proposals to crack down on the Chinese government’s suspected use of clandestine “police stations” inside the United States to monitor dissidents and expatriate Chinese nationals, according to Rep. Mike Gallagher, the Wisconsin Republican who chairs the recently created panel.
“The idea is that by enhancing penalties for two types of crimes that are in U.S. code right now, you could force the
to take it more seriously and you could, it would have a deterrent effect,” he told The Washington Times. “The Chinese wouldn’t try to do something like this.”said the enlarged penalties would accompany crimes involving interstate harassment to suppress rights on behalf of a foreign adversary and the failure to register as a foreign agent in the U.S. while conducting police work for a foreign adversary.
The Foreign Agents Registration Act is designed to identify and register people engaging in American politics at the direction of a foreign country, but Mr.He has previously introduced legislation aiming to require agents of Chinese businesses to register with the U.S. government, ending exemptions applying to foreign agents who say they engage exclusively in nonpolitical activity.
The Madrid-based Safeguard Defenders identified more than 50 stations around the world last year, and told the New York Post that the Chinese government has also established stations in California, Minnesota, Nebraska and Texas.
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