Justice Department officials said the three criminal cases amounted to"transnational repression" by an authoritarian government, including a discussion of assaulting one dissident.
In one of the cases, federal prosecutors said a Chinese government agent approached a US private investigator to help manufacture a political scandal that would undermine a China-born man seeking the Democratic nomination to run for a New York seat in the US House of Representatives. "You can start thinking now, aside from violence, what other plans are there," the Chinese agent allegedly said."But in the end, violence would be fine too. Huh? Beat him, beat him until he cannot run for election."
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