Chinese Agent Pleads Guilty To Operating Secret Police Station In New York

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by Tyler Durden

Friday, Dec 20, 2024 - 04:30 AM

Authored by Eva Fu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

A New York man has admitted to acting as an illegal Chinese agent by operating a secret police station for Beijing in Manhattan.

Chen Jinping, a 60-year-old U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty on Dec. 18 in front of U.S. District Judge Nina Morrison, a development that prosecutors lauded as the latest progress in countering the Chinese regime’s transnational repression scheme.

Chen was one of two individuals the FBI arrested in April 2023 over the illegal police station, one of more than 100 identified overseas Chinese police outposts Beijing had operated globally.

He faces up to five years in prison.

The New York site runs under the cover of a Chinese organization called the American ChangLe Association in Manhattan’s Chinatown. The association ostensibly serves as a mingling place for immigrants from China’s southeastern Fujian Province, where the namesake district, ChangLe, is based.

Chen was the secretary general of the association at the time of the arrest, while the other man, Lu Jianwang, was the former president. Lu, also known as “Harry Lu,” has pleaded not guilty to the charges and is awaiting trial.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/chinese-agent-pleads-guilty-operating-secret-police-station-new-york

Ranked: Companies Receiving the Most Government Subsidies

Over the last quarter of a century Boeing has received nearly $16 billion in government subsidies, putting it at the top of this list.

Rank Company Industry Subsidy Value (2000–2024)

1 Boeing Industrial $15.5B

2 Intel Tech & Media $8.4B

3 Ford Motor Automotive $7.7B

4 General Motors Automotive $7.5B

5 Micron Technology Tech & Media $6.8B

6 Amazon Tech & Media $5.9B

7 Alcoa Industrial $5.7B

8 Cheniere Energy Energy $5.6B

9 Foxconn Technology Group Tech & Media $4.8B

10 Venture Global LNG Energy $4.3B

11 Texas Instruments Tech & Media $4.3B

12 Volkswagen Automotive $4.1B

13 Sempra Energy Energy $3.8B

14 NRG Energy Energy $3.4B

15 NextEra Energy Energy $3.4B

16 Sasol Energy $2.8B

17 Tesla Automotive $2.8B

18 Stellantis Automotive $2.8B

19 Walt Disney Tech & Media $2.6B

20 Nucor Industrial $2.6B

Most of the subsidies have come from Washington State, which has nine preferential tax rates that benefit the aerospace industry.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/which-us-companies-receive-most-government-subsidies

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How one North Korean nuclear-armed satellite could cripple the US military

by Peter Pry, opinion contributor - 12/05/17 1:20 PM ET

In the shadow of North Korea’s third successful test of an ICBM on Nov. 29, Secretary of Defense Mattis described the North Korean missile threat as “a research and development effort on their part to continue building ballistic missiles that can threaten everywhere in the world basically.”

The Congressional EMP Commission warns North Korea may already pose a worldwide threat, not only by ICBM, but by satellites, two of which presently orbit over the United States and every country on Earth.

A single satellite, if nuclear-armed, detonated at high-altitude would generate an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) capable of blacking out power grids and life-sustaining critical infrastructure. It would pose an existential threat.

{mosads}Yet, after massive intelligence failures grossly underestimating North Korea’s nuclear capabilities, their biggest threat to the U.S. and the world remains unacknowledged — nuclear EMP attack.

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/363326-how-one-north-korean-nuclear-armed-satellite-could-cripple-the-us/