A Manhattan resident has pleaded guilty to helping establish a secret police station in New York City on behalf of the Chinese government.

A New York resident who prosecutors say operated a "secret police station" in the Chinatown district of Manhattan to aid Beijing's targeting of dissidents, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent.

A 60-year-old man pleaded guilty on Wednesday for his role in running a clandestine Chinese "police station" in New York as part of a campaign to monitor and harass US-based dissidents.But in fact their main job was to help track down and harass fugitive Chinese dissidents,

An American citizen has pleaded guilty to helping run what has been described as the first known secret police station in the US on behalf of the Chinese government. Prosecutors say Chen Jinping and his co-defendent Lu Jianwang opened and operated the station in Manhattan's Chinatown neighbourhood in early 2022 on behalf of China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS).

In a shocking case that has stirred concerns about foreign influence in the United States, a New York resident has admitted to being part of a secret operation run by the Chinese government. The man,

A 62-year-old Chinese-American man pleads guilty to operating an illicit Chinese police station in NYC’s Chinatown.

In 2023, the United States became the first country to lay charges against individuals accused of running extraterritorial Chinese police stations. Now, they appear to be getting their first conviction.