cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/55074314
[Op-ed by Chu Meng-hsiang, former deputy secretary-general of the Lee Teng-hui Foundation.]
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Taipei-based Indo-Pacific Strategy Thinktank CEO Akio Yaita, a political commentator and former Taipei bureau chief of the [Japanese daily newspaper] Sankei Shimbun, was allegedly assaulted by a Chinese national in a hotel lobby in Taichung on Monday last week, in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) latest attempt at transnational repression in Taiwan. Yet politicians from the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party offered no condemnation of the attack, while some of their supporters even cheered it.
A similarly alarming incident occurred at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle International Airport in March 2024, when French border police intervened to stop the abduction of 26-year-old Chinese dissident Ling Huazhan (凌華湛) by Chinese agents. Ling had publicly voiced anti-CCP views and support for democracy in Taiwan and Hong Kong. The group was attempting to force Ling onto a flight bound for China when police and journalists at the scene intervened.
The incident struck a nerve within the French government, sparking concerns about violations of national sovereignty, human rights and freedom, prompting counterintelligence authorities to launch a year-long covert investigation and adopt strong countermeasures aimed directly at China’s secret repression networks. Earlier this year,
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France’s domestic intelligence agency DGSI dismantled nine clandestine Chinese “police stations,” also known as “110 overseas police service centers.” The “police service stations” were disguised as local Fujian associations, business federations and Chinese restaurants. The outposts, which claimed to provide administrative services for overseas Chinese, were allegedly used to monitor 600,000 Chinese residents in France and gather intelligence on dissidents. The French Ministry of the Interior expelled three Chinese nationals believed to be behind the operation, including Fujian Association of Industrialists and Merchants president Ni Chaowen (倪超文).
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France has shown it will not tolerate foreign powers illegally enforcing their laws on French soil. Taiwan should look to France and ask what lessons it can learn from the incident.
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Oh, is the "Secret CCP Cops EVERYWHERE trust me bro!" flavor of antichina prop making the rounds again?
And we can definitely trust French intelligence.
Well, in that case you can trust France definitely more than China.
If you don't, however, Safeguard Defenders, a China-focused rights organization, published a report some time ago about illegal Chinese police station overseas in Austria, Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Nigeria, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, U.S.,, in Argentina, Brazil, Brunei, Cambodia, Ecuador, France, Greece, Hungary, Japan, Lesotho, Mongolia, Serbia, Slovakia, Tanzania, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
There are countless reports of illegal Chinese police stations in various national media around the globe, e.g., in Australia, Canada, and many other countries.
You'll easily find more very reliable sources.
Edit: There is even a Wikipedia page on Chinese police overseas service stations
*Groucho Marx voice* Now that's an oxymoron if I ever seem one