This afternoon, US prosecutors in New York announced charges against 40 Chinese individuals in three different cases, all of which revolve around the alleged efforts of China’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS) to intimidate, harass, and censor critics of China overseas. In perhaps the most shocking of the three cases, two New York-based MPS officers were arrested in New York and accused of running a secret police station in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood.

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