China's Repression Reaches United States: Two Arrested for Operating Illegal 'Police Station' in NYC
“The defendants were directed to do the [People's Republic of China's] bidding, including helping locate a Chinese dissident living in the United States.”
The suspects were involved in "transnational repression" schemes, including arranging counterprotests and efforts to locate Chinese dissidents living in the US. They are charged with conspiring to act as agents of China's government and tampering with evidence.