US arrests two for operating secret Chinese police station in NYC

Two New York residents, Lu Jianwang and Chen Jinping, have been arrested for allegedly operating a Chinese "secret police station" in Manhattan's Chinatown, as part of a crackdown on Beijing's alleged targeting of U.S.-based dissidents. They face charges of conspiring to act as agents of China's government without informing U.S. authorities and obstruction of justice. The charges come as the Department of Justice ramps up probes into what it calls "transnational repression" by U.S. adversaries such as China and Iran to intimidate political opponents living in the United States.