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China has dozens of police departments around the globe - including New York City?
Details: A new report, titled "110 Overseas: Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild, details how China has been allowed to expand its police state into western nations - with 38 stations across 5 continents.
In Europe: these stations are located in London, Amsterdam, Prague, Budapest, Athens, Paris, Madrid, and Frankfurt.
In North America: there is one station in New York City and three in Toronto.
Other locations include: Brazil, Japan, Nigeria, and Mongolia
The alleged purpose of the overseas police is to provide services for Chinese citizens abroad and to combat "fraud" by its citizens.
The report details how these Chinese police stations have resulted in 230,000 Chinese nationals being "persuaded to return" to China "voluntarily" over the last year to face criminal prosecution [Notice the intentional quotes].
The real purpose of the Chinese police is to basically act as foreign mobsters. They intimidate and harass the families of Chinese nationals in these countries. They also push Chinese propaganda and monitor what the Chinese nationals are doing while abroad.
Violation of international law: Safeguard Defenders, a human rights watchdog says:
"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."
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