{"id":2030706,"date":"2023-09-13T14:58:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T18:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-activists-call-to-confront-chinas-most-sophisticated-and-comprehensive-transnational-repression\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T15:04:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T19:04:33","slug":"lawmakers-activists-call-to-confront-chinas-most-sophisticated-and-comprehensive-transnational-repression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-activists-call-to-confront-chinas-most-sophisticated-and-comprehensive-transnational-repression\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers, activists urge action against China&#8217;s extensive transnational repression."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flawmakers-activists-call-to-confront-chinas-most-sophisticated-and-comprehensive-transnational-repression%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2030706&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<h2>The Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s Transnational \u2062Repression<\/h2>\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s (CCP) transnational\u2063 repression, a pervasive scheme that extends\u200b far beyond its border and quells dissenting voices, came under the spotlight during a U.S. congressional body hearing on Sept. 12.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Witnesses, ranging from lawmakers to dissidents, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/epochtv\/congressional-executive-commission-on-china-holds-hearing-on-countering-transnational-repression-5489944\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gave their testimony<\/a> before the Congressional-Executive Commission\u200b on China \u200b(CECC), a bipartisan and bicameral panel.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The Chinese Communist Party has waged a pervasive, coercive campaign \u2064around the world \u2062against anyone who does not\u2062 agree\u200c with the party,&#8221; Rep. Chris Smith \u200c(R-N.J.), who co-chairs the\u200d CECC,\u2062 said\u2064 in the opening \u200bremarks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode\">\n<div class=\"border-comp-divider mb-4 mr-4 w-full max-w-[500px] border px-5 py-4 text-[16px] leading-[20px] text-[#262626] md:float-left\" id=\"in_article_related_stories\">\n<div class=\"mb-3 font-sans text-[16px] font-semibold uppercase leading-[19px] text-[#2F2F2F]\">Related Stories<\/div>\n<ul class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<li class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/china\/republicans-call-for-action-as-china-turns-us-into-hunting-ground-for-dissidents-5302581\">Republicans Call for Action as China\u200d Turns US Into \u2018Hunting Ground\u2019 \u200dfor Dissidents<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">5\/31\/2023<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"shrink-0 basis-[120px]\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/china\/republicans-call-for-action-as-china-turns-us-into-hunting-ground-for-dissidents-5302581\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<li class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/china\/chinese-secret-police-targeted-us-army-vet-on-american-soil-attempted-to-interfere-in-election-doj-4341794\">Chinese Secret \u2064Police Targeted US Army \u2062Vet on American Soil, Attempted to Interfere in Election:\u2064 DOJ<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">3\/16\/2022<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"shrink-0 basis-[120px]\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/china\/chinese-secret-police-targeted-us-army-vet-on-american-soil-attempted-to-interfere-in-election-doj-4341794\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mr.\u2063 Smith recounted \u2063a \u2064giant\u200b sculpture in a California park morphing Chinese leader Xi\u2062 Jinping&#8217;s head with a Coronavirus molecule.\u2064 &#8220;It was a bold work of \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-activists-call-to-confront-chinas-most-sophisticated-and-comprehensive-transnational-repression\/\" title=\"Lawmakers, activists urge action against China's extensive transnational repression.\">art rightfully assigning blame<\/a> to the CCP and Xi Jinping, in particular, for the horrific \u200cpandemic and all the mistakes that were made, especially\u2062 in the early months that\u2063 shook the world,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Not long after it was\u200d unveiled in June 2021, the statue was vandalized and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/article\/chinas-freedom-fighters-explain-why-ccp-secret-agents-launched-arson-attack-in-california-4897485\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">burned to the ground<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Charges unsealed by \u2064federal prosecutors in 2022 alleged three \u200dChinese agents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/china\/agents-working-for-ccp-were-paid-millions-to-spy-on-harass-dissidents-in-us-criminal-complaint-4346353\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plotted to destroy\u2062 the\u200d artwork<\/a> and, more importantly, spy on \u200dthe Los Angeles-based sculptor, \u200cwho is critical of\u200b the CCP. The \u2062Justice Department accused the men of aiding the regime&#8217;s &#8220;transnational repression scheme&#8221; to silence dissidents living in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<div class=\"shortcode post-related-videos\">\n<div class=\"lazyload-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"lazyload-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Unfortunately, that is not a rare\u2062 case, Mr. Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>Echoing his comments, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), co-chair of the CECC, described the number of uncovered cases related to the CCP&#8217;s transnational repression, both in the \u200bUnited States \u200dand other countries,\u2064 as &#8220;disturbing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But there are \u200blikely to be countless cases that are not \u2062being\u200c reported on, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I imagine that for every \u2062case, we hear there&#8217;s \u200danother \u200d10, \u2063we don&#8217;t know\u200c about,&#8221; said\u200d Mr. Merkley.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Earlier this year, Mr. Merkley introduced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/china\/republicans-call-for-action-as-china-turns-us-into-hunting-ground-for-dissidents-5302581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bipartisan bill<\/a>, the Transnational Repression Policy\u2062 Act, together with Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.). The \u200dlegislative proposal, he said, is\u2064 aimed at holding &#8220;foreign governments and individuals accountable when they stalk, intimidate,\u2064 or assault people across borders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>Yana Gorokhovskaia, research\u200d director for strategy and design at Washington-based think tank Freedom House, said the Chinese regime accounted for about 30 percent of all incidents of physical\u2062 transnational repression her organization recorded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China is carrying out the world&#8217;s most sophisticated and comprehensive campaign of transnational repression using\u2062 a wide array of physical, digital, and psychological tactics to attempt to silence those abuse as a threat,&#8221; Ms. Gorokhovskaia said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>The sweeping \u200bcampaign targets a diverse array of overseas Chinese, including journalists, students, artists, and religious groups like Uyghurs, Tibetans, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/doj-charges-2-suspected-chinese-agents-for-targeting-falun-gong-in-the-us-5295028\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Falun Gong practitioners<\/a>,\u200d she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>It also includes\u2064 &#8220;anyone else who is brave enough to\u2062 criticize the Chinese Communist Party,&#8221; she added, such as legislators.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<h2>Harassing Lawmaker<\/h2>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>Michael Chong, a Canadian member of Parliament who was targeted by the Chinese regime, said his story illustrates how Beijing&#8217;s \u2062translational repression or foreign interference works.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Chong, an opposition Conservative Party member, \u200chas often criticized the regime&#8217;s repression\u2064 inside and outside China since he was\u200b appointed as the Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs in \u20632020. Notably,\u2064 he introduced\u2064 a motion \u2063that \u2063declared Beijing\u2019s abuse \u200bof Uyghur Muslims in the far-western Xinjiang region amounted to genocide, which the Canadian parliament\u2062 later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/mps-pass-motion-declaring-chinas-uyghur-persecution-a-genocide-3706043\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passed<\/a>. \u200dThe communist regime later responded by imposing sanctions on Mr. Chong along with two U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-perfecting-techno-totalitarianism-for-export-around-the-world-rep-gallagher\/\" title=\"China perfects techno-totalitarianism for global export, says Rep. Gallagher.\">religious freedom officials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>In May, Mr. Chong\u2063 learned through a Canadian newspaper, the Globe and Mail, \u2064that since 2020 a\u2064 Chinese diplomat had\u2063 gathered information to target \u2062him and his family \u2063in Hong Kong. The publication cited a July 2021\u2063 report \u2063by the Canadian Security\u2063 Intelligence Service, \u200dand the existence of the internal assessment was later confirmed by the Canadian government, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Chong learned last month that he and his family members were\u200d targeted by an \u200bonline \u200cdisinformation campaign in which\u200d the\u200c Canadian government said the\u200b CCP likely \u200dplayed a role.<\/p>\n<p>The false narratives about him popped up on Chinese-language social media, particularly \u2064on WeChat,\u200b he said. The operation persisted for about a week in May.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is corrosive,&#8221; he said, noting there are over 1 million WeChat users in Canada and roughly 5 million across the world. &#8220;They have weaponized Chinese language social media [and] Chinese\u200b media, such as CGTN, the\u200b state broadcaster.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-figure\" style=\"margin-left:0;margin-right:0;max-width:1200px\">\n<figure style=\"width:640px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>Conservative MP Michael Chong speaks to reporters about his private member\u2019s bill on Dec. 4, 2013. \u00a0(Matthew\u2064 Little\/Epoch Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>The revelation \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/china\/chinese-diplomat-expelled-for-allegedly-intimidating-shadow-minister-for-foreign-affairs-michael-chong-5258535\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resulted in<\/a> \u200cthe\u2063 Canadian government declaring a Chinese diplomat, Zhao \u2064Wei, as \u200b\u200b\u201cpersona non grata\u201d and demanded his departure on May 8. Beijing retaliated by ordering Jennifer Lalonde, a Shanghai-based Canadian envoy, to leave\u200d the country.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>However, to protect his loved ones in\u200b Hong Kong, Mr. Chong \u200bsaid he \u2064had \u200dcut off contact with them and made sure that they could be, somewhat, \u2063insulated \u2063from the work he is doing in Canada, like many other Chinese diasporas in foreign countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So this\u200c is the consequence,\u200b one of the consequences of [China]&#8217;s transnational repression,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;My experience is but one\u2064 case of Beijing&#8217;s interference in Canada. Many, \u2063many other cases go unreported\u200b and\u2062 unnoticed, and the victims suffer in silence,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<h2>Overseas Police Station<\/h2>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>The most recent revelation\u200b of the transnational repression\u200b scheme\u200c is about Chinese police stations, which\u2064 were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/china\/2-more-secret-ccp-police-stations-discovered-in-la-and-new-york-report-4909946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">uncovered<\/a> by the human rights group Safeguard \u200bDefender last year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to an updated report released in December 2022, there are more than\u2064 100 \u2064police outposts that are operated in 53 countries, including four in the United States.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Laura \u200dHarth,\u2064 campaign director of the Safeguard Defender, \u2063highlighted during the hearing that these facilities were the result of the cooperation between China&#8217;s \u200cpublic security \u200bauthorities\u2063 and overseas groups with ties to \u2063the CCP&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/china\/chinese-regime-amping-up-united-front-efforts-to-influence-western-democracies-report-3382477\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">united front system<\/a>, a powerful party\u2064 organ that works to advance the regime\u2019s interests \u200cabroad, including by carrying out foreign influence operations, \u2063suppress dissident movements, gather intelligence, and facilitate the transfer of technology to China.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>The Chinese regime claimed\u200b these police\u200c outposts were to help overseas Chinese renew driver&#8217;s licenses and other tasks that are normally handled by consulates.<\/p>\n<p>However, the reality is contrary to what\u2062 Chinese authorities claimed. &#8220;Open-source evidence from Chinese authorities and State\/Party media link such stations directly to &#8216;persuasion to \u2064return&#8217; operations,\u2062 including video evidence from such an operation in Spain,&#8221;\u2064 Ms. Harth said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Earlier this year, the FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/fbi-arrests-2-for-operating-secret-chinese-police-station-in-nyc-5200542\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrested<\/a> two people accused of operating \u200bthe outpost \u2063in New York City on behalf \u2063of the CCP.\u2063 Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said the \u200bpolice station was to &#8220;monitor and intimidate&#8221; Chinese dissidents inside \u200dthe United States.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>Ms. Harth \u2062noted these police \u2063stations &#8220;are clearly but the\u2063 tip of the iceberg in what members of the dissident communities have long known.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-figure\" style=\"margin-left:0;margin-right:0;max-width:1200px\">\n<figure style=\"width:640px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>A balloon is held at a press conference and \u200crally in front of\u2062 the America ChangLe Association \u2064highlighting Beijing&#8217;s transnational repression, in New \u200dYork City on Feb. 25, 2023. (Samira Bouaou\/The Epoch Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Safeguard Defenders have linked the\u2062 \u201coverseas police\u2062 stations\u201d to the CCP&#8217;s \u2062transnational scheme, Operation Fox Hunt, which was launched in 2014\u2064 to repatriate \u2063the CCP&#8217;s\u200c targets back to the mainland to face prosecution.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Under Fox Hunt and a broader Operation Sky Net launched in 2015, the Chinese regime claimed\u2062 it had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/china\/a-global-regime-of-political-terror-beijing-forcibly-brought-back-10000-citizens-from-overseas-since-2014-report-says-4226117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brought back<\/a> nearly 12,000 people between 2014\u200c and\u2063 October 2022, Ms. \u200cHarth said, citing official data.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>Ms. Harth explained the method,\u2063 outside of formal extradition processes, was deployed by the CCP to coerce their targets to return to the mainland, and it ranged from kidnapping to intimidating family\u200d members in China.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Threats and harassment, \u200bor worse, against family members back\u200c home or \u200ddirect threats and harassment of individuals overseas by covert [China] \u200d agents, individuals linked to\u200d [Chinese] \u2063embassies or consulates, private investigators and security firms, coopted private individuals, rabid nationalists or even victims themselves,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Chinese Communist Party has set up a true \u200bwhole-of-society effort to exert control over\u200d diaspora communities worldwide \u200dand silence dissent,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These efforts clearly undermine\u2064 the most \u200dfundamental freedoms of targeted\u200d communities, \u200bseverely infringe the rights and due process of individuals coerced into returning, and constitute a grave violation of the territorial and judicial sovereignty of other nations,&#8221; she said.\u2064 &#8220;The climate of suspicion and widespread fear further isolate targeted communities and individuals from their\u2064 environment. They may also expose individuals that have been coopted or coerced into doing the\u200c CCP\u2019s bidding to\u200b criminal \u2064liability,&#8221; Ms. Harth said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>She called for democratic countries to take &#8220;a similar whole of \u200cgovernment approach \u200dthat recognizes transnational repression for the domestic threat it is, one that is inextricably\u200b linked\u200c to\u2063 the CCP\u2019s influence operations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<h2>Silencing Uyghur<\/h2>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>Rushan Abbas, who quit her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/an-extended-look-at-candace-owens-like-youve-never-seen-her-before\/\" title=\"An Extended Look At\u00a0Candace Owens Like You\u2019ve Never Seen Her Before\">full-time job<\/a> as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-microchip-headaches-ukraine-halts-half-of-worlds-neon-output\/\" title=\"More Microchip Headaches: Ukraine Halts Half of World's Neon Output\">business development director<\/a> to become an activist\u2062 after Beijing detained her sister, a retired medical doctor, gave evidence to the<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Party&#8217;s transnational repression was exposed during a recent U.S. congressional hearing. 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