After securing the third term, Chinese President Xi Jinping thought that he could expand his influence across the world but started on a negative point as FBI counterintelligence raided American "Changle Association" headquarters, a non-profit organization that used to help Chinese national
FBI counterintelligence agents searched a six-storey office building on a busy street in New York's Chinatown last fall as part of a criminal investigation being conducted with the US attorney's office in Brooklyn, NYT reported citing people with knowledge of the inquiry.
Even though China revoked its Zero Covid Policy following the protests, China unleashed its police equipped with the latest technology to go after people that had participated in the protests and dozens of people who took part in the protests have paid heavily for the dissent.
These units house people from China who seek out, threaten and blackmail Chinese dissidents to return home and suffer the consequences of their political choices.
Madrid-based human rights organization, Safeguard Defenders, in its 21-page report, titled "110 Overseas - Chinese TransNational Policing Gone Wild" has revealed the presence of dozens of Chinese police "service stations" in major cities around the world.
"There are many Overseas Chinese Assistance Centers that indulge in activities of espionage, curbing dissent, and identifying overseas Chinese who are pro-democracy supporters, other than the regular cover activity of assisting the Chinese diaspora," the publication said.
The calls for greater scrutiny of China's actions in Canada come amid protests against Beijing's zero-Covid policy in US and Canada and controversy surrounding the overseas "Chinese police stations."
In a new report 'Patrol and Persuade' released on Monday, the Spain-based non-governmental organization Safeguard Defenders said it used open source statements from People's Republic of China authorities, Chinese police and state media to document at least 48 additional 'police' stations
On November 24, a fire tore through a residential building in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region's capital Urumqi. After the incident, citizens circulated the videos on the internet space, with residents screaming and demanding authorities to open exits. The residents said that they were
As per the news report, Chinese authorities have been quietly attempting to 'stamp out' the protests that have spread across the country over the past week. Protests in China erupted in response to apartment building fire in Urumqi last Thursday.
In the statement, the RCMP said that it is aware of recent reports that accuse China of targeting the Chinese diaspora throughout Canada and is investigating "all criminality" related to such activities .
The rise in the establishment of Chinese police stations across the world has raised several concerns, which if go ignored can lead to serious consequences in the balance of sovereignty across different countries.