This just reads like a bait and switch. NPR just went "holy shit le ebil CCP is disappearing people overseas with this huge state apparatus on foreign land and they even make threats to other countries' airports and public buildings! Oh nah nevermind, but they're still evil OK?". One paper didn't even retract it's bullshit after it came out false.
Never pass up an opportunity to make propaganda about the state's enemies.
same with the spy balloon narrative. pentagon said it wasn't a spy balloon and in the article covering it the headline literally still said spy balloon
That's fair, it's definitely still NPR. I thought the depth of the scam revealed by the end was pretty interesting.
Tl;DR: anticom con Wang Jingyu possibly threatened and scammed Gao and his family, with both bomb threats and the disguise of "CCP agent".
Also, Wang leads group of anti govt Chinese people who don't speak English nor Dutch...
Well good on them for actually looking in it but see how they absolve themselves of this mess. The victim says that he trusted the scammer because of his media appearances. Towards the end they highlight that he may have been bullshitting since well before with the phone number thing. But it looks like these "journalists" toss out any last smidge of professional integrity at the chance to do some warmongering.
Literally US state media