The 54 police service centers opened by Chinese authorities outside of mainland China—including one in New York City—that reportedly use coercion to repatriate Chinese people might also be a tool for sabotage or espionage, according to a security policy expert.
Frank Gaffney, the executive chairman of the Washington-based Center for Security Policy, sees those outposts as part of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) campaign of global transnational repression.