China's relations with some Western countries are not harmonious, and one of the friction points involves controversy in overseas police stations.
Safeguard Defenders, a human rights organization headquartered in Madrid, Spain, said last September that China established more than 100 overseas police stations in the five continents.Europe.
Most of them began to be established overseas by two Chinese law enforcement jurisdictions in 2016, which are under the jurisdiction of Wenzhou and Nantong law enforcement agencies.
After the release of the 110 -controlled Chinese cross -border crime of overseas 110, Japan, Germany, Britain, Canada, the Netherlands and other countries have conducted investigations in the past six months.(110 is the emergency hotline number of the Chinese police.)
The latest development is that British officials announced on Tuesday (June 6) that China has closed police service stations that are said to have appeared in the UK, and said that no illegal activities in these locations were found after investigation.
The British Security Minister Togenharrt issued a statement to Congress that after evaluation, police and public supervision suppressed any administrative functions that these locations may have.
China: The so -called "overseas police station" does not exist at all
China has always denied operating any such police stations, emphasizing that these sites only provide overseas service stations involving overseas Chinese affairs, such as applying for driving licenses and other businesses. These centers are opened by local volunteers instead of Chinese police.
In response to the British release, the Chinese embassy in the UK reiterated that the official position of China has rebuked the so -called "overseas police station" at all.EssenceChina also emphasized that the Chinese side urged the British side to stop spreading false information, stop rendering speculation and slandering China.
Police do not necessarily work overseas
It should be pointed out that the police's work overseas is not necessarily improper.
According to the New York Times, FBI also dispatched agents abroad.But they usually declare to the foreign government and work in the US Embassy.If you perform law enforcement duties, you need to obtain local official permission.China also has similar joint law enforcement arrangements, such as Italy in the popular destination of Chinese tourists.
" Internationalization of public security organs"
In contrast to the anxiety of Western Human Rights Organization, Chinese official positioning the "overseas 110" service as an active "internationalization of public security organs".
The Fuzhou City Public Security Bureau of Fujian Province took the lead in opening the "End of the World Ruobi neighbor, overseas 110" alarm service desk on January 10, 2022.According to Chinese media reports, this is to promote the internationalization of public security organs in the discussion of Chinese officials in the discussion of Chinese officials and provide Chinese overseas Chinese and public security services.
Fuzhou Public Security Bureau also announced 30 overseas communities with more overseas Chinese in Fuzhou, and set up the first batch of 30 "Fuzhou Police Overseas Affairs Overseas Service Station", involving 25 cities in 21 countries., Achieve a long -range remote replacement business in the driving license period of motor vehicle driving licenses overseas.
Fuzhou is a well -known overseas Chinese hometown in China.According to statistics, there are more than 4.3 million overseas Chinese in Fuzhou all over the world.
Chinese official media believes that the "Overseas 110" operation provides protection for millions of Chinese citizens living abroad.According to the official media, the operation and the overseas police station that followed by it aims to arrest Chinese citizens and prevent them from criminals abroad, such as fraud, telecommunications fraud or large transnational crimes.
illegal cross -border law enforcement?Surveillance objection?
However, the protection of the Guardian report pointed out the two major issues involving overseas police stations.
First, use irregular methods to target overseas Chinese or their families in China, which may trigger illegal cross -border law enforcement issues.The second is that with the expansion of the target of crackdown, it may lead to a voice of Chinese objections living overseas.
The report said that the overseas police stations originated from local cracking fraud.However, the scope of crackdown is gradually expanding, and it is also used to harass two target characters: one is to flee corrupt officials; the other is the disagreement in the eyes of Beijing.
TheReport says that this uses the official statement and regulations of the Ministry of Public Security or the Procuratorate, emphasizes the use of "persuasion" in large scale and involves violating international regulations.EssenceThe so -called "persuasion" includes restrictions on family members and relatives of the target people.
TheReport also pointed out that the anti -telecommunications network fraud law adopted on September 2, 2022, established a proposition of external legal rights for all such fraud Chinese citizens suspected of such fraud.The BBC reports that this law, together with Chinese overseas police agencies, has nowhere to escape from the disgraceful people.
Will overseas fellows be covered?
The so -called "overseas police station" may not have a physical building.Protection guards said it usually borrows overseas fellows related to the Communist Party of China.
Politico reports that Beijing sets these police stations in seemingly legal enterprises or organizations to make a guise for their actions, so it is not easy to be found.Local insiders are also unwilling to contact the official because they are worried that the Chinese government may take revenge on them or their families in China.
So far, the incident involving overseas police stations is a greater trouble. The Federal Investigation Agency arrested two men on the grounds that they were suspected of assisting in the operation of the Chinese Secret Police Department. They were 61 years old.Lu Jianwang and 59 -year -old Chen Jinping.
The two have American citizenship and are residents of New York City.Lu Jianwang is the president of the Changle Guild in New York, and Chen Jinping is the current secretary -general.
They were accused of helping the Chinese government secretly open and operate illegal Chinese police station in the United States without notifying the US government.The two were also charged with the names of overseas fellows and assistance to overseas Chinese, and secretly accepted the instructions of the Chinese government to monitor, target and harass disagreements.The bases of the two were first in the "Changle Guild" of the Chinese Overseas Chinese Mission in Manhattan, New York, and later transferred to the Fujian Township Association, which is also in New York.
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The Federal Prosecutor of the East of New York pointed out that the Chinese government has established a secret police station in the central New York city center to violate US sovereignty.The U.S. Department of Justice said that after the relevant person aware that the Federal Investigation Bureau was underway, the station was closed in the fall of 2022.
In response to the news released by the United States, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Wang Wenbin said at a regular press conference that China resolutely opposed the United States' "slander and slander and smearing", "evilThe so -called "transnational target" narrative "and a lawsuit against Chinese law enforcement and online information department officials.
Wang Wenbin emphasized that there is no "overseas police station" at all.
According to the US "Documented" website, Lu Jianwang's brother and the current chairman of the American Changle Association Lu Jianshun also refuted the association's secret police station.
He said, this is just an overseas service station of police and overseas affairs, which is different from the actual public security bureau.Lu Jianshun also said that without the Chinese police had arrived in their office, the work of the association was to help Chinese citizens update and fill in the form.
However, these work to assist Chinese citizens is the protection of the Chinese overseas police station that the Guardian reports.The local government public security bureau of China has assisted in setting up service stations overseas, or established in similar forms such as various fellow villagers and police service centers. However, in fact, it secretly cooperates with Chinese official work instructions or running monitoring and united front tasks.
Protecting the guards also said that although these fellow villagers often provide services to the community, they have now been attracted by the Communist Party of China to try to strengthen the control of the diaspora.
All parties have no intention to upgrade the dispute
In addition, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported on June 1 that the Royal Royal Madrid said that the department has been closed in Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia. "Activity. The report did not explain whether to arrest anyone.
Germany and Ireland have ordered closure of local related places, but they have not officially arrested any people involved.
Except for the United States, so far, other countries have not arrested people who have operated the so -called "overseas police station". It can be seen that related disputes are temporarily controlled, and all parties have not allowed disputes to escalate.
Overseas police service stations to increase operating transparency, or help to release doubts.However, as long as Chinese and Western relations do not improve for a day, the operation of overseas police service stations will be difficult to escape from political interpretation, and from time to time, it will become an issue of offense and defense.
