Whistleblower: China Conducts Police Surveillance in U.S. and Canada to Monitor Chinese Citizens
Chinese President Xi Jinping stands by national flags at the Schloss Bellevue presidential residency in Berlin on March 28, 2014. Chinese President Xi Jinping begins a landmark visit to fellow export powerhouse Germany Friday, the third leg of his European tour, expected to cement flourishing trade ties and focus on the Crimea crisis.
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A whistleblower report has indicated that China is conducting police operations in the U.S. and China to perform surveillance on Chinese citizens in those countries.
Safeguard Defenders, a human rights organization, has discovered these clandestine operations, three of which operate in Toronto and one in New York City, by the Chinese that make a mockery of national sovereignty in U.S. and Canada and put the civil liberties of those countries’ residents in severe jeopardy.
“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,” a report by Safeguard Defenders released earlier this month states.
In addition to the U.S. and Canada, Chinese has these policing posts throughout Europe in cities like Budapest, Prague, Madrid, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris, London and Athens as well.
The report by Safeguard Defenders is titled “110 Overseas: Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild,” which details the Chinese police agencies abroad that operate under the auspices of preventing “fraud” by its citizens living throughout the world by “carrying out policing operations on foreign soil.”
“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 states in its conclusion.
Big League Politics has reported on the myriad ways that China is invading the US to perpetuate its agenda of surveillance and control:
“A Congressional investigation has found that China targeted the Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank, to build a massive informant network for the purposes of espionage.
Republican staffers for the Senate’s Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discovered in their investigation that Fed workers were offered contracts by the Chinese to provide the enemy communist regime with privileged economic information.
One economist was even detained by the Chinese in 2019 where he was threatened in an attempt to get data and information about tariff policy out of the person. This was when Trump was instituting his trade war against the Chinese, which of course has now been canceled under President-imposed Joe Biden.
The results of the investigation concluded that there was “a sustained effort by China, over more than a decade, to gain influence over the Federal Reserve and a failure by the Federal Reserve to combat this threat effectively.”
It should come as no surprise that the Fed is denying the report and casting doubt on its findings.
“Because we understand that some actors aim to exploit any vulnerabilities, our processes, controls, and technology are robust and updated regularly. We respectfully reject any suggestions to the contrary,” Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell wrote in a letter to Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, the top serving Republican on the committee.”
While the U.S. and Western provokes Russia and paints them as a major threat, China is able to get away with atrocities with little fanfare. This is what happens when a country allows a hostile foreign power to dominate their economy.
Shane Trejo
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