American Outposts: China’s Secret Police Stations mean China Cops on U.S. Streets with U.S. Beats
The recent conviction of a man operating an alleged Chinese Communist Party police outpost in New York has exposed something far larger than a foreign espionage operation. According to Senior Investigative Journalist for the Epoch Times, Joshua Philipp, China’s network inside the United States serves two distinct purposes: surveilling and intimidating Chinese dissidents living in America and manipulating American institutions to advance Beijing’s interests from within.
See the episode here: China Has Secret Police Stations All Over the World
- China police stations monitor and intimidate dissidents on U.S. soil
- United Front groups influence policies and institutions from within
- Beijing exploits American freedoms to advance authoritarian objectives
- Shen Yun attacks reveal China’s transnational repression tactics
- Recent convictions expose only a fraction of China’s operations
On a recent episode of The Josh Philipp Show, Philipp examined evidence linking CCP-linked organizations, secret police stations, United Front groups, influence campaigns, propaganda operations, lawfare tactics, and economic dependence into what many China experts describe as a decades-long strategy to turn America’s openness against itself.
Philipp traces this strategy back to senior CCP ideologue Wang Huning’s influential book America Against America, which identified perceived weaknesses in American society that could be exploited by Beijing. The result, critics argue, is a sophisticated effort to use America’s free speech protections, legal system, media environment, educational institutions, and economic relationships as weapons against the United States itself.
Joining the discussion is Steve Lance, Vice President of NTD Television and Executive Producer of the documentary Unbroken. Lance has firsthand experience confronting CCP influence operations on U.S. soil. He has helped expose campaigns targeting Shen Yun Performing Arts, including legal harassment efforts, media attacks, and attempts to discredit performers whose productions highlight the CCP’s ongoing persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
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Lance can also discuss how major Western media outlets have become vehicles—intentionally or unintentionally—for narratives that benefit Beijing. Having directly navigated the fallout from controversial reporting on Shen Yun, he offers a unique perspective on how perception management, media warfare, and reputational attacks fit into the CCP’s broader strategy.
Together, Philipp and Lance can explain why secret police stations are merely the visible edge of a much larger apparatus that includes transnational repression, economic leverage, propaganda, lawfare, technology theft, and influence operations designed to shape public opinion and public policy inside America.
As policymakers increasingly focus on foreign influence and national security threats, this conversation raises urgent questions: How extensive is the CCP’s footprint in the United States? Are American institutions equipped to recognize and counter these tactics? And what happens when a foreign authoritarian regime learns to weaponize the very freedoms that define American society?
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OPTIONAL Q&A:
- How do CCP-linked police stations identify and track dissidents in America?
- Why does Beijing seek to export Chinese law enforcement practices onto U.S. soil?
- What is the United Front, and how does it influence American institutions?
- How does the CCP use America’s legal system against its critics?
- What can the Shen Yun attacks teach us about transnational repression?
- How have major media narratives been leveraged to advance CCP objectives?
- Is the recent New York conviction evidence of a much larger network?
- What steps should the United States take to counter CCP influence operations?
Joshua Philipp is an award-winning journalist and Senior Investigative Reporter at The Epoch Times. He is the host of The Josh Philipp Show, a program that dives deep into news stories, to make sense of what’s going on beyond the headlines and ‘Crossroads,’ a news and analysis program on EpochTV. His works have included breakthrough investigations into the origins of Covid-19 and the Wuhan laboratory in the early days of the pandemic. He spearheaded the first documentary on the lab leak origins of the COVID-19 virus, released in April 2020. This groundbreaking documentary garnered over 75 million views, and while many tried to label it misinformation, its findings have since been vindicated by the White House and US intelligence agencies.
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ABOUT STEVE LANCE…
Steve Lance is an Executive Producer with Sincere Pictures, where he focuses on investigative documentaries and cinematic storytelling rooted in real-world events. In UNBROKEN: The Untold Story of Shen Yun, Lance leads the film’s investigative narrative, examining threats, sabotage attempts, and the broader campaign targeting the performing arts company.
Drawing on his background as an investigative journalist and Vice President of NTD Television, Lance has reported extensively on issues related to U.S.–China relations and foreign influence operations. Based in Washington, D.C., his work sits at the intersection of journalism and filmmaking, bringing rigorous reporting and narrative depth to stories about power, truth, and resilience.
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