Amid COVID protests, the totalitarian state is trying to choke dissent on U.S. soil through surveillance, intimidation and even violence, a Newsweek investigation reveals
In December last year, Qiming Lin, believed by the agency to be a retired but still active agent of the Chinese Ministry of State Security, was recorded by the FBI as telling a private investigator in the U.S. whom he allegedly hired to carry out the plot that a"car accident, will be completely wrecked , right?"
"Another traitor of the motherland, dead in America" read a headline on China.com, a state-affiliated media platform. The Chinese embassy in Washington D.C. and its consulate in New York City did not reply to requests for comment. Zhang has been indicted by a grand jury for murder. She next appears in court in Queens on December 9.
The party forces targets back by threatening them directly, and indirectly via their families in China, who in turn pile pressure on loved ones abroad, said Huang Hua, a legal adviser in London who specializes in political asylum. "The Chinese authorities use all the means at their disposal to monitor—and where they deem necessary intimidate—the Chinese diaspora," he said.
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