The Chinese Communist Party has extended its policing apparatus to foreign cities across the world, ostensibly to provide assistance to Chinese citizens and engage a global fight against online fraud, but the effort appears to supplant and circumvent the host country’s policing authority as well as provide a web for CCP’s local United Front committees to extend their ability to wield power over people from their jurisdictions even while they are overseas.
A report by Safeguard Defenders, a European human rights non-profit, concludes of the CCP effort:
Rather than cooperating with local authorities in the full respect of territorial sovereignty, it prefers – as reiterated frequently in the articles cited in this investigation – to cooperate with (United Front-linked) overseas “NGOs” or “civil society associations” across the five continents, setting up an alternative policing and judicial system within third countries, and directly implicating those organizations in the illegal methods employed to pursue “fugitives”.
Safeguard Defenders. “110 Overseas: Chinese transnational Policing Gone Wild”. September 2022.
The extension of the CCP apparatus, carries along with it the tyrannical policies the CCP uses to coerce compliance. The Safeguard Defenders report describes Wenchang City’s willingness to use threats against a person’s family to induce that person to return to China. The threats included taking away medical insurance, denying admission to school for children, being banned from party-privileges, and having their property confiscated or destroyed.
