(CCP) says it can target anyone in the world after Canadian journalist charged
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August 31, 2022 at 3:04 pm #280072
Hong Kong says it can target anyone in the world after Canadian journalist charged
The Hong Kong (CCP) government has defended its charges against a Canadian critic of the regime, saying anyone who violates the city’s widely condemned national security law — “regardless of their background or where they’re located” — will be prosecuted.
We knew this was coming.
The comment drives home what has been a fear of overseas activists since the law was enacted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2020 – that it could be used as a threat, at least, against dissidents anywhere in the world.
And against family members still stuck under the tyrannical regime of the CCP.
Earlier this month, the Hong Kong security bureau announced it was charging Ho — a long-time Canadian citizen and retired newspaper editor ‚ and two U.S. residents with breach of the security law’s “subversion” section.
Yay, your rights and freedoms guaranteed in another nation, as a citizen of that nation, means nothing to the CCP. You just happen to be in an area they do not YET have direct dictatorship powers over…
Asked if it would be possible to prosecute another nation’s citizen for an act that occurred in that country, (bureau spokesman Tommy Wu) answered in the affirmative.
So what can they do?
“It should also be pointed out that the NSL has extraterritorial effect,” said Wu. “Any persons or entities who violate the NSL, regardless of their background or where they are located, will be dealt with by the HKSAR (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region) government in accordance with the law.”
Yay, national borders/sovereignty means NOTHING to the CCP unless it is over what they have direct autocratic control over… or over a territory the CCP propaganda’s claim over.
While Canada and some other countries do allow prosecution of wrongdoing that occurred outside the country — such as terrorist attacks by or against Canadians — they typically target conventional criminal acts, not mere criticism of a government.
But the CCP considers any criticism of their regime as traitors to their dogma/propaganda.
The security bureau declared Aug. 3 that Ho, former Hong Kong legislator Baggio Leung and ex-Hong Kong democracy activist Yuan Gong-yi — the latter two both now Washington, D.C., residents — were suspected of committing the offence of “subverting the state power” under the NSL’s article 22.
“Police shall spare no efforts in pursuing the cases in accordance with the law in order to bring the offenders to justice,” said a news release, which also warned Hong Kong residents they could risk legal trouble themselves if they associate with such individuals.
Which means;
(Victor Ho) said the NSL charges mean he cannot travel to Hong Kong, where he has relatives, and he’s advised other family members not to visit the city. In terms of his own safety, he met with a Canadian Security Intelligence Service officer on Monday and was contacted by a Global Affairs Canada official, both of whom offered help.
He said there is no way Hong Kong could pursue the charges against him except through kidnapping or other illegal means.
Just like how the Saudis went after Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident, journalist, who was assassinated in the Saudi Embassy.
Or where it is reported since Mr. Putin became president, 22 journalists have been killed and 2 disappeared,as well as those famous “poisonings” in Germany and England.
Guy Saint-Jacques, Canadian ambassador to China from 2012 to 2016, said his outspoken criticism of Beijing and the current Hong Kong administration means both the mainland and the city are off limits for him now, as well as countries that have extradition treaties with them.
The NSL “has far-reaching consequences for anyone who has criticized or would dare to question the Chinese leadership or policies anywhere in the world,” he said.
So no one is safe from these regimes. The persons themselves or any family/relatives can be used as hostages to these regimes.
September 1, 2022 at 3:54 am #280126All you have to do is look what communism did to China’s long history and how it attacked its culture to know what it will do (if given the chance) to the rest of the world. While I am not an advocate of world policing or nation building I think China should not be allowed to spread it’s tendrils. Unfortunately the west, at this time, is not defined by its strength but its weakness and as such cannot do much about this as it could before.
September 30, 2022 at 3:21 pm #282585And it gets worse!
China has opened overseas police stations, including three in Toronto
China has opened a number of “overseas police service stations” worldwide, including several in Toronto, according to a report.
“These operations eschew official bilateral police and judicial cooperation and violate the international rule of law, and may violate the territorial integrity in third countries involved in setting up a parallel policing mechanism using illegal methods,” the report by Safeguard Defenders, a human rights watchdog, said…
How can it violate international laws when Chyna claims the whole world as theirs, or will be?
The report, titled “110 Overseas: Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild,” details China’s extensive efforts to combat “fraud” by its citizens living overseas, in part by opening several police stations on five continents that have assisted Chinese authorities in “carrying out policing operations on foreign soil.”
So what do these nazis do?
…China has tried to get Chinese nationals living abroad to return to China “voluntarily” to face criminal prosecution.
By threatening any and all family members within ccp occupied territories. Return of a family member might be the next in-voluntary heart organ donor, etc.
“As these operations continue to develop, and new mechanisms are set up, it is evident that countries governed by the standards set by universal human rights and the rule of law urgently need to investigate these practices to identify the (local) actors at work, mitigate the risks and effectively protect the growing number of those targeted,” the report says.
But that is communism. All that matters is that it survives at the expense of all. Humans are just a commodity to them, with no “human rights”. And borders mean nothing to these regimes. To them those areas are just not yet under the umbrella/yoke of their regime./ideology.
The disease that is socialism/marxist/communism is being indoctrination into our education systems.
You don’t agree with the agenda…..
October 7, 2022 at 1:47 pm #283280It’s ‘entirely illegal’ for China to open police stations here, says Ottawa
Federal officials confirmed this week that it would be “entirely illegal” for Beijing to open police stations on Canadian soil, but that it would nevertheless fit within a pattern of growing Chinese interference in Canadian affairs.
Since when does the ccp follow laws? Especially those of a nation they can’t control/occupy?
The official word from China is that the stations are merely places for expats to conveniently renew IDs or drivers’ licences.
But un-officially and practically, they are coercion centers.
When one such station was discovered in Dublin, Ireland, the Chinese embassy’s official explanation to The Irish Times was “the pandemic made international travels not easy and quite a few Chinese nationals found their Chinese ID cards and/or driver licences expired or about to expire, and yet they could not get the ID renewed back in China in time.”
But I thought that is what Embassy’s are used for?
But according to Safeguard Defenders, the stations are clandestine hubs in the Chinese program of “involuntary return” — a system by which China compels its expats to return home for punishment in instances where they’re deemed to have violated Chinese law while abroad.
In just the last year, China itself has boasted that 230,000 of their nationals have been “persuaded to return” on various charges.
And how many of them were for “their Chinese ID cards and/or driver licences expired or about to expire”? I don’t think many.
Paul Thoppil, the assistant deputy minister for Global Affairs, chalked it up to Beijing’s embrace of “the view that international rules and norms don’t apply to ‘great’ powers in their spheres of influence.”
Rules for thee, not for me.
And if you have any chinese heritage, then by default, you ARE an NPC that the ccp claims to have dominion over, regardless of how many generations removed from living IN ccp occupied territories you are.
October 7, 2022 at 6:57 pm #283309Republicans demand answers from Biden officials on report China opened police arm in NYC
Republican Study Committee chairman Jim Banks of Indiana alongside Reps. Michael Waltz of Florida and Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin led the letter to Austin and Blinken demanding answers on why China’s Fuzhou police were reportedly able to open a U.S.-based police arm.
“The Department of Justice and State Department must explain why the Biden administration has allowed CCP police to set up an office on U.S. soil,” Banks told…
You expect to get answers for beijing biden on why?
“The Chinese Communist Party uses these stations to go after political dissidents abroad, while also endangering the national security of the United States,” Waltz said in a statement. “We must protect the American people and Chinese freedom activists from the CCP’s gross abuse of the American justice system,” he added.
And that is why beijing biden is allowing it.
“The presence of one of these stations in New York City not only raises serious human rights concerns, but also raises concerns about whether the United States is allowing a hostile foreign adversary to conduct its own law enforcement activities within our borders,”
But did not biden said he does not believe in a us border?
All are welcome, including hostile foreign (so long as they are doing the dem’s agenda)…
“The State Department must divulge the extent of their knowledge of this station, it’s actions against American-Chinese citizens and communities, and the threat it may pose to our national security,” he added.
If the us gov spies on its own citizens (including a once sitting POTUS), then this is something they could easily accept.
The Republicans pointed to the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission’s 2018 report detailing how the “CCP’s United Front Work Department has worked to suppress the free speech rights of U.S. persons protesting against” them.
They also warned about Beijing’s coercion and bullying activities to push the CCP’s narrative that sometimes verges into illegal actions.
“According to Peter Mattis, a research fellow at Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, CCP intimidation and efforts to promote Beijing’s narrative ‘sometimes crosses the line into criminal actions, such as conspiracy against rights,’” the Republicans wrote.
That is communism at its core.
“In 2020 the Chinese government’s campaign illegally targeting U.S. residents to force their return to China had become so severe that the FBI issued an internal memorandum on this issue. The Chinese overseas police service station established in New York City earlier this year appears to be a further step of China’s illicit long arm policing on U.S. soil that violates our sovereignty.”
Considering all communists believe the entire world is theirs, they just don’t have full control/occupation of it yet. They (and the agents) are just getting ahead of the game.
October 26, 2022 at 1:07 pm #284964RCMP investigating Chinese ‘police’ stations in Canada
The RCMP says it’s investigating Chinese “police” stations in Canada.
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They include a residential home and single-storey commercial building in Markham and a convenience store in Scarborough.
The closer they can get to the communities the CCP are covering..
“In most countries, we believe it’s a network of individuals, rather than … a physical police station where people will be dragged into,” said Laura Harth, a campaign director at Safeguard Defenders.
“It’s completely illegal under international law. It’s a severe violation of territorial sovereignty.”
But wherever there is someone who is Chinese, the CCP claims sovereignty over them, IMO, regardless of birth and nationality.
… the RCMP said it’s “investigating reports of criminal activity in relation to the so-called ‘police’ stations.”
The RCMP also said it takes “threats to the security of individuals living in Canada very seriously and is aware that foreign states may seek to intimidate or harm communities or individuals within Canada.”
As if laws of other nations matter to the CCP.
“We’ve heard of threats directly targeting people who are advocating for minority rights in China, such as those from the Uyghur and Tibetan communities. These stations are now another tool that Beijing can use to repress Canadians here in the Chinese community in Canada,” he said.
The silencing of opinions the CCP disagrees with, especially from those they claim over, this regime will stop at nothing to stop.
The statement from the Chinese embassy did not address the reports of intimidation, but earlier this year, China’s state-run newspaper Global Times reported that 230,000 people suspected of telecom fraud were “persuaded to return to China from overseas to confess crimes from April 2021 to July 2022.”
In September, China adopted an Anti-Telecom and Online Fraud Law with the aim of tackling telecom and online fraud in China and abroad.
“There may be those that are guilty of economic crimes. We also know these kinds of campaigns have been used to target dissidents, critics of the regime, even those within the Communist Party … those that might have stood up to [President] Xi Jinping himself,” said Harth.
And the “national security (crackdown)” laws like those impose on Hong Kong are more examples of what such “laws” are doing.
Journalist and human rights advocate Sheng Xue moved to Canada after the 1989 tiananmen square massacre to flee repression.
She said she’s been repeatedly targeted by Chinese officials online for her activism and was arrested in Beijing in 1996 when she traveled there to visit her mother, as well as in Hong Kong in 2008. In both instances, Xue said she was forced to leave after being detained.
“They want to destroy my reputation. But since I am in Canada, they cannot just kidnap me or kill me, like many of my friends in Thailand or Vietnam [or] Hong Kong,” she said. “[But] now the Chinese police station [is] here, just a few kilometres from me, so I am asking myself, where else I can escape to?”
According to the CCP, there is no place one can escape.
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