Do what?

Chinese government operates police stations on US soil.

I’m the son of a cop.

My father was a police officer throughout my entire childhood, only retiring when I was in adulthood. He then went on to serve a time as a police chief in a small, neighboring town.

One thing he never did, though, was serve as part of a law-enforcement effort overseas.

That happens, of course. The FBI, for example, conducts investigations all over the world, as do postal inspectors. Yet there are rules that must be followed when that happens.

China, however, appears to have opened what amount to police stations all over the world, including in the United States.

The U.S. government must immediately investigate and shutter the recently discovered overseas Chinese government police station in New York City for potential violation of U.S. laws, several experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

In 2022, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) established secret police stations in over 100 cities around the world to conduct intimidation and harassment operations against overseas Chinese, human rights organization Safeguard Defenders revealed in a September report.

While other countries have announced probes into the alleged police stations, the location within American Changle Association — a Chinatown community organization in New York City — continues to operate outside legal boundaries and should be shut down, experts told the DCNF.

“This is a disgrace. How in God’s name could they openly have these communist police stations in our country?” Beau Dietl, a retired NYPD detective and current head of Beau Dietl & Associates private investigation firm, told the DCNF.

But what do these police stations actually do?

After all, some possibilities are benign and others aren’t. Unsurprisingly, the official explanation isn’t all that terrifying.

The police stations, designated as “110 Overseas” — in reference to China’s emergency telephone number — bill themselves as purportedly helping overseas Chinese obtain driver’s licenses, manage dispute resolution and resolve vaguely defined “difficult problems,” according to Chinese media.

Oh, well, that’s not so bad, right?

It’s the next paragraph of the report that bothers me.

However, they also conduct “foreign strike operations” against individuals who run afoul of the CCP through intimidation, blackmail and forcible arrest, according to Safeguard Defenders. The Chinese government claims these operations aim to crack down on drug smuggling and telecommunications fraud.

The problem is, they’re doing a whole lot more than that.

The truth of the matter is that if this were about drug smuggling or fraud, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies would likely be thrilled to help. After all, a lot of nasty stuff comes into the US from China, so helping put a stop to that would benefit American law enforcement a great deal. Reciprocating just makes sense.

But that’s not really what these 110 Overseas stations are really doing.

We know that the Chinese government does a lot of awful things. That includes threatening the families of Chinese nationals currently in the United States, to say nothing of having literal concentration camps.

This is not a government we can trust.

Yet it seems that despite a letter from at least 10 members of Congress asking Attorney General Merrick Garland to do something about these stations, nothing has come of it.

Other nations have started investigations, but not the Biden administration.

Look, I have no issue with there being someone to help Chinese immigrants navigate American bureaucracy. Even if it’s not as bad as Chinese bureaucracy—and while I can’t say for certain, nothing about China’s history suggests we’re worse—it’s still different. Someone helping work through that is a good thing.

But why would Chinese law enforcement be involved, anyway? That’s something for their version of a state department, not the cops. Not on foreign soil, at least.

Which is how you know what you’re seeing is absolute BS.

And yet, our government does nothing. They sit there and allow this kind of thing to happen. If there weren’t enough reasons to criticize the Biden administration, this would be enough all on its own.

Imagine a president letting the USSR do this kind of stuff during the Cold War. You probably can’t, because even left-leaning Democrats knew better. Yet we have fallen from those heights as a nation. We’re allowing a brutal and tyrannical government to exert its power on our soil and doing nothing about it.

Frankly, if we lose our status as a superpower, we deserve to see it happen at this point.