Posted on 09/30/2022 3:55:59 PM PDT by DoodleBob
The spread of Chinese overseas police service stations around the world raises concerns among human rights campaigners.
The Chinese government is opening illegal police posts all over the world. China claims that these posts are capable of cracking down on global and multinational crimes. These checkpoints have been opened in many countries around the world including developed countries like Canada and Ireland. According to local media reports, Fuzhou has established informal police service stations affiliated with the Public Security Bureau (PSB) across Canada. At least three of these stations are located in the Greater Toronto Area only.
The presence of similar Chinese police posts has also come to the fore in Dublin, Ireland. These outposts are not only illegal but have been set up to antagonize China’s adversaries. Not only this, but with the help of these police posts, the Chinese government is also influencing the elections in the respective countries. Furthermore, these stations are controlling the activities of the Overseas Chinese Diaspora and espionage cases have also been reported.
The Fuzhou police says it has already opened 30 such stations in 21 countries. Other Chinese cities and provinces also operate their own stations.
The police stations are set up to help Chinese citizens living abroad file local police reports and aid in other bureaucratic processes. According to Chinese state-affiliated media, the “Police service stations” force alleged Chinese criminals to be sent back to China. The organization Safeguard Defenders claims that over 230,000 people have been sent to China through these unofficial negotiations.
110 is the emergency phone number in China, much like 911 and 112 in the US and EU respectively. The Fuzhou city police operation out of Fujian province uses the name “110 Overseas” for its campaign, while other police jurisdictions uses different names.
The presence of these stations all over Europe and in Toronto (Canada) and New York (USA) has left security experts bewildered. Countries like Ukraine, France, Spain, Germany, and the UK have such arrangements for Chinese Police Stations. The leaders of most of these countries question the rise of China and its worsening human rights records on public platforms and are themselves a part of that issue. Following is a map of publicly documented Overseas Police Service Centers from Fuzhou
County and Qingtian County.
In the Global South the presence of these stations can be seen in Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, Chile, Nigeria, Tanzania, Lesotho, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Cambodia, Brunei and even Japan!!
These police stations cause internal security concerns for the whole world and a threat to sovereignty of the concerned nations.
National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.Richard Perle (Former United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs)
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One more pile of stinking poo Trump will have to shovel off
our national door mat.
Now compare this to FBI and DEA offices all over the world.
The one in Ukraine is spying for Russia, if Ukraine hasn’t taken it down yet.
I think most of us see the FBI in need of being defunded to
absolute zero. Sell the assets, and sign legislation that
forbids any member of the current FBI from ever serving in a
law enforcement agency again.
Then forbid them to head up or participate in private
sector security firms.
Time to find a new line of work.
Are they policing only Chinese? Do they have the power to arrest, try, imprison, etc.?
I thought the provision of services to foreign residents was the job of an Embassy or Consulate. Silly me - what do I know?
Ten bucks says that they’re not just watching Chinese citizens.
I see from the Dublin, Ireland sign that the Chinese actually use the word “police”. I am surprised by that, as it seems quite provocative. You’d think they’d pick a more neutral word.
How/why is this even being allowed to happen?
Ping!
That is step one. The next step is to onshore supply chains, followed by ending all commerce with China.
I’d allow an exception for former agents to be mall cops at empty malls. No matter what, no one at the FBI should ever work in government or as a contractor to government at any level.
Do they patrol the aisles at Harbor Freight?
But why they're doing it is easier to answer: because China wants to be able to control its own people abroad. Also, it's another opportunity for spying and meddling in other countries.
But another reason: the Western powers imposed extraterritoriality in the unequal treaties with China in the 19th and 20th centuries. A Westerner in China couldn't be tried in Chinese courts. Maybe China wants to let the world know that it demands the same privileges Westerners demanded from China in the past.
The New York Police Department now has 14 intelligence posts outside the U.S., including in London, Paris, Madrid, Tel Aviv, Amman, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Sydney, Interpol in Leon and Europol in The Hague, Miller said. Detectives are also embedded with federal partners in Washington, and one detective serves as a liaison to law enforcement in Los Angeles.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nypd-stresses-work-with-overseas-partners-in-terror-fight/
Agreed... with apologies to Bob Blart. (Mall cop)
A couple of decades ago an Internist and a Psychiatrist both suggested that we let the ChiComs run/be in charge of prisons for our professional criminals.
They both suggested that we use the old retired Navy ships in Benicia and other ports as floating prisons. Tow the ships out away from the docks and anchor them/ Staff them with ChiComs and chum the water around the anchored ships to attract sharks.
The homeless could stay in old navy ships anchored off docks/shore unless they became criminals. The homeless hierarchy would train and provide the security people for the homeless ships.
Years ago, they sounded like crazed loons. Now that might be ways to handle criminals and or the homeless.
They also were firm believers in the 3 strikes, and you go to jail and stay there on the anchored ships.
Bob Blart passed my mind when writing that. Thusly, I wrote ‘empty malls.’ No FBI agent reaches the stature of Blart.
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