What Actually Mattered This Week: China’s Not-So-Secret Police Stations
WHAT ACTUALLY MATTERED THIS WEEK
The FBI announced charges this week against two men for conspiring to act as agents of the Chinese government and obstructing justice.
They were operating in one of China’s infamous ‘police’ stations…which are used to intimidate and monitor Chinese citizens abroad.
This isn’t the first of its kind—the United States follows crackdowns by other countries like Ireland, Canada, and the Netherlands—and the stations are believed to be operating in more than 50 countries.
Footage showed a bodyguard jumping into action to protect Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida from a metal device believed to be a pipe bomb.
It was an incredible act of bravery – and a harsh reminder about Japan’s uptick in political violence, less than a year since the assassination of former PM Shinzo Abe.
The United States does not get to unilaterally decide which areas of US-China policy are adversarial and which are cooperative.
You’d think policymakers would understand this.
Give the author of this headline a raise.
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Preet Bharara, former US attorney for the Southern District of New York, stopped by GZERO World to discuss three big legal stories in the news: the charges facing former US President Donald Trump, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's gifts from a billionaire Republican donor, and the recent classified documents leak.
According to Bharara, the charges leveled against the Trump Organization and its CFO, Allen Weisselberg, could establish a precedent for justice and the rule of law, with significant consequences for American democracy in the future. Bharara ranked the severity of the three other potential charges that could be brought against former President Trump, with the conduct relating to the January 6th riot "being the most severe."
Though this is not the first US president to be charged with a crime, Trump's plans to run for president in 2024 while fighting criminal charges could have wide-ranging implications for the future of democracy.
"There are people who are not allies of Trump, who I think are responsibly raising the question, "What is the level of seriousness of a crime on the part of a former president that justifies bringing it?" Bharara tells me, "And they're really great arguments and I struggle with this."
For a longer, wider-ranging version of my interview check out the GZERO World podcast.
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1 年That is not really news. China has been monitoring their people globally for Decades. They are monitoring especially Chinese business people who use Chinese money and invest in other Countries. Like most First World Countries these business people need to pay their Taxes to their home Country. The question that needs to be asked, why all of a sudden do the fbi make this public knowledge? Perhaps it has something to do with the Taiwan Narrative.
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1 年I would bet that is also the case for Iranian Regime & IRGC.
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1 年We are way ahead of this here in the Balkans. Chinese police officers are openly patrolling in Serbia, while the Serbian government is working with China to set up city-wide surveillance systems: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-serbia-china-patrols-idUSKBN1W81B0
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1 年Thanks for posting
Found 3 here in Canada.