Secretary of State Antony Blinken rolled out the red carpet on Friday for Liu Jianchao, China’s top envoy and the architect of its global plan to kidnap and silence anti-communist dissidents.
Liu’s “Operation Fox Hunt” included the establishment of Chinese “police stations,” including in New York, to find and extort dissidents.
His trip to the United States culminated with Blinken hosting a reception at the State Department on Friday morning, a day after meeting with President Biden’s deputy national security adviser, Jon Finer.
It also included a visit to the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations in Manhattan, a reception with a billionaire Wall Street investor and an audience with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
But it sparked outrage among dissident and human rights groups whose friends and family have been targeted by the Chinese Communist Party under “Operation Fox Hunt,” which Liu led.
The UN Secretary-General met this week with Liu Jianchao, China’s top diplomat and the architect of Operation Foxhunt, which set up more than 100 Chinese police stations around the world, including one in Chinatown, New York. ZUMAPRESS.com The Post revealed a Chinese police station above a noodle shop in Manhattan’s Chinatown. James Messerschmidt for the New York Post
Since 2015, Liu, 59, has worked in the CCP’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the “International Fugitive Recovery Office” of the Central Anti-Corruption Coordination Group, according to reports.
He is the mastermind behind the campaign that uses Chinese agents to spy, blackmail and intimidate the country’s citizens around the world and, in some cases, even kidnap them.
During Operation Foxhunt, Chinese agents hired American private investigators to help locate dissidents in the United States.
“Rolling out the red carpet is a slap in the face,” said Martha McMahon, whose husband Michael, a decorated former NYPD sergeant, was convicted of acting as a foreign agent and interstate stalking while working as a private detective in New Jersey, but protests vehemently for his innocence.
Jianchao (center) was at the State Department to meet with Blinken because he appears to be the next Chinese foreign minister. The last one disappeared from public life last year. AP Martha Byrne (left) criticized Liu’s presence in the United States. Her ex-NYPD husband, Michael McMahon, has been convicted of working for China’s secret anti-dissident campaign, but she vehemently protests his innocence. Tamara Beckwith/NY POST
“At the very least, he should have been questioned by the FBI as soon as he arrived on the runway.”
Mark Simon, a Taiwan-based media executive said in X: “Liu persecuted hundreds of Chinese abroad… using families as hostages, threats and torture.”
Simon is campaigning for the release of his former boss, pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai, who was arrested in Hong Kong in 2020 and is now serving a five-year sentence denounced by Blinken’s State Department as unfair.
Shortly before Liu arrived, the FBI office in Houston issued a warning that the PRC “may be cyberbullying, physically intimidating, and harassing Chinese citizens, naturalized U.S. citizens, and families of dissidents who speak out against the Chinese Communist Party.”
At the same time Liu J.Ianchao was visiting the United States this week, the FBI office in Houston issued a warning about the “transnational repression” of the Chinese Communist Party. @FBIHouston/X
In 2022, The Post revealed how a secret police station above a noodle shop in Manhattan’s Chinatown was used to spy on dissidents and was run by a shady charity that hosted a gala dinner for the mayor of the city. New York City, Eric Adams, in 2022.
In April of last year, two American citizens were accused of setting up the police station and helping security officials of the authoritarian nation locate dissidents living in the United States.
“Harry” Lu Jianwang, 61, of the Bronx, and Chen Jinping, 59, of Manhattan, have not pleaded guilty and no trial dates have been set.
Liu, who is the leading candidate to head China’s Foreign Ministry after the last foreign minister disappeared from public life, said the purpose of his US tour was to promote better understanding between the United States and China.
Lu Jianwang (circled, left) and Chen Jinping (circled, right) are both American citizens accused of running China’s secret police station in Manhattan. They were arrested last year. United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York While visiting the Asia Society this week, Liu J.Ianchao (circled, right) posed for an official portrait with billionaire Steven Schwarzman (at left). @AsiaPolicy/X
While in Manhattan, she posed at the Asia Society with Steven Schwarzman, the billionaire CEO and co-founder of the Blackstone investment fund.
The nonprofit organization works to forge closer ties with Asia.
“We are here to promote dialogue between the governments, legislators and political parties of the two countries, as we believe that communication is the only way to increase common understanding,” Liu said Tuesday at an event organized by the Council on Foreign Relations. Exteriors in Manhattan. .
He also said China had received help from the U.S. Departments of Justice and Homeland Security to extradite “crime suspects” on the “basis of U.S. law.”
Just before Liu embarked on a similar diplomatic trip to Britain last year, Safeguard Defenders, a Madrid-based human rights group, unsuccessfully requested that he not be allowed into the country, saying Liu “had responsibility for command and/or supervision” of human rights abuses. .
A request for comment from the State Department was not responded to Friday.
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