The Slow Newscast China’s shadow war: The Americans | Episode Two
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Apr 1, 2026 Dawn Norristoke, a former FBI counterintelligence agent with 20+ years’ experience, recounts China’s transnational repression. She outlines how operatives target politicians, students and dissidents. She explains use of third-party proxies and chilling plots including arson, harassment and recruitment of Americans to do Beijing’s bidding.
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U.S. Has Legal Tools To Prosecute Transnational Repression
- The FBI treats transnational repression as a defined crime with a hotline and task force, enabling prosecutions that Britain lacks.
- Since 2021 U.S. authorities have charged at least 60 Chinese agents, showing the scale and institutional response in America.
Fear And Low Priority Hide The True Scale
- Transnational repression is underreported in the U.S. and especially in the U.K. because victims fear retaliation and local police may not prioritize such cases.
- Dawn Norristoke warns the true scale is larger than official figures reflect.
Desert Sculpture Provoked Direct Harassment
- Chen Weiming built a 27-foot CCP Virus sculpture in the Mojave Desert that fused Xi Jinping's face with a skull as political protest.
- The statue was firebombed within a month, Jonas Wan's RV was later destroyed, and the FBI linked the attacks to operatives charged as illegal agents of China.