A “political manipulation”. The tone rose Tuesday, April 18 in Beijing following the operation of American justice against suspects accused of having opened an underground Chinese police station in New York and of cyber-harassment of dissidents.
“China firmly opposes the defamation, denigration, political manipulation by the United States, as well as malicious accusations regarding so-called transnational suppression”said Wang Wenbin, spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“We call on the United States to immediately reflect on its actions, to abandon its Cold War mentality and ideological biases, to immediately cease the resulting bad practices, political manipulation and smearing operations against the China »he added.
Clandestine operations
American justice had announced the day before the arrest of two Americans of Chinese origin in New York and the indictment of several dozen members of the Chinese security services as part of an investigation into what it considers to be operations. illegal Chinese.
Lu Jianwang, 61, and Chen Jinping, 59, the two suspects arrested, are suspected of having participated in the operations of an underground police station in the heart of Chinatown, on the island of Manhattan, according to the federal prosecutor of Brooklyn, Breon Peace.
In a separate survey, 34 “officials of the Ministry of Public Security” Chinese, between the ages of 26 and 52, all believed to be residing in their country, have been charged with cyber-harassment activities of Democratic activists and « dissidents » beyond Chinese borders, “especially right here in New York”announced the prosecutor.
Finally, six other officials from the Chinese Ministry of Public Security and “two members of the Chinese Cyberspace Administration” were also charged in an uncovered 2020 case in which a Chinese Zoom employee acted to disrupt online meetings of activists, including to commemorate the bloody crackdown in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square protests. in 1989.
