Secretary of State Antony Blinken rolled out the red carpet on Friday for Liu Jianchao, China’s top emissary — and the architect of his global scheme to kidnap and silence anti-Communist dissidents.
Liu’s “Operation Foxhunt” included setting up Chinese “police stations” including in New York, to find and blackmail the opposition.
His trip to the US was capped by a reception at the State Department by Blinken on Friday morning, a day after he met 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 billionaire Wall Street investors, and a meeting with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
But it sparked outrage among human rights groups and dissidents whose friends and family members have been targeted by the Chinese Communist Party under “Operation Foxhunt,” run by Liu.
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, NYC. ZUMAPRESS.com The Post revealed a Chinese police station above a noodle shop in Manhattan’s Chinatown. James Messerschmidt for the NY Post
Since 2015, Liu, 59, has served in the Central Commission for Disciplinary Inspection of the CCP and the “International Refugee Rehabilitation Office” of the Central Anti-Corruption Coordinating Group, according to reports.
He is the mastermind behind a campaign that uses Chinese operatives to spy on, blackmail and bully citizens around the world — and in some cases even kidnap them.
Under Operation Foxhunt, Chinese operatives hired US private investigators to help track dissidents in the US.
“To roll out the red carpet for him 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 vehemently protested her not guilty.
Jianchao (center) is at the State Department to meet Blinken as he looks to be China’s next foreign minister. The latter disappeared from public life last year. AP Martha Byrne (left) slammed Liu’s presence in the US. Her ex-NYPD husband Michael McMahon has been convicted of working for China’s covert anti-dissident campaign but has vehemently denied his innocence. Tamara Beckwith/NY POST
“At the very least he should have been questioned by the FBI as soon as he hit the tracks.”
Mark Simon, a media executive based in Taiwan said to X: “Liu hunted down hundreds of Chinese overseas… using families as hostages, threats, & torture.”
Simon campaigned for the release of his former boss, pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai, who was arrested in Hong Kong in 2020 and is currently serving a five-year sentence that Blinken’s State Department has denounced as unfair.
Just before Liu arrived, FBI office in Houston issued a warning that the People’s Republic of China “may be cyberstalking, physically intimidating, and harassing Chinese citizens, naturalized US citizens, and the families of dissidents who speak out against the Chinese Communist Party.”
At the same time that Liu JIanchao was on his visit to the US 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 New York City Mayor Eric Adams in 2022.
Two US citizens were charged in April last year for setting up a police station and helping security officials from the authoritarian country track down dissidents living in the US.
“Harry” Lu Jianwang, 61, of the Bronx, and Chen Jinping, 59, of Manhattan have not entered pleas and a trial date has not been set.
Liu, who is a leading candidate to head China’s foreign ministry after the last foreign minister disappeared from public life, said the purpose of his visit to the US was to promote better understanding between the US and China.
Lu Jianwang (circled, left) and Chen Jinping (circled, right) are both US citizens accused of running China’s secret police station in Manhattan. They were arrested last year. US District Court for the Eastern District of New York During his visit to the Asia Society this week, Liu JIanchao (circled, right) posed for an official portrait with billionaire Steven Schwarzman (left). @AsiaPolicy/X
While in Manhattan, he posed at the Asia Society alongside Steven Schwarzman, the billionaire CEO and co-founder of investment fund Blackstone.
The non-profit organization seeks to strengthen ties with Asia.
“We are here to promote dialogue between the governments, lawmakers and political parties of the two countries, because we believe communication is the only way to improve mutual understanding,” Liu said on Tuesday at an event organized by the Council on Foreign Relations. in Manhattan.
He also said that China has received assistance from the US Department of Justice and Homeland Security in extraditing “criminal suspects” based “on US law.”
Shortly before Liu embarked on a similar diplomatic visit to Britain last year, Safeguard Defenders, a Madrid-based human rights group, unsuccessfully petitioned to deny him entry to the country, saying Liu “bears command and/or oversight responsibilities”. for human rights violations.
Requests for comment from the State Department were not returned Friday.
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