Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy pressed White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Wednesday over police stations established by China on U.S. soil.
The Justice Department charged two men who helped operate a “police station” in New York City for Chinese authorities, who allegedly used it to harass and target dissidents, Monday, following the indictment of multiple Chinese officials for their role in the alleged scheme. One of the operatives arrested by the FBI attended multiple events with Democratic officials, including a fundraiser for Democratic Rep. Grace Meng of New York.
“China is setting up police stations in the U.S.,” Doocy said. “There’s more proof now that they created COVID. There is reason to think there were more spy balloons than the White House has said. Why is it taking so long for President Biden to call Xi and tell him to cut it out?” (RELATED: Former Interior Secretary Says Inflation Reduction Act Makes America ‘More Vulnerable To China’)
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“We have said over and over again that the President intends to call President Xi,” Jean-Pierre responded. “I don’t have a call to read out to you at this time.
A former Trump official testified during a Tuesday hearing held by the House Oversight Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic that illnesses among staff at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) pointed to the source of the COVID-19 pandemic being a lab leak.
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