'Extrajudicial extradition': MPs alarmed about Chinese police escorting Australian resident to China for trial
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Chinese police hunting international corruption targets were allowed into Australia by the federal police and subsequently escorted a woman back to China for trial, in a major breach of Chinese-Australian police protocols.

Chinese police hunting international corruption targets were allowed into Australia by the federal police and subsequently escorted a woman back to China for trial, in a major breach of Chinese-Australian police protocols.

The revelations, contained in Monday night’s Four Corners program about a former Chinese spy, prompted a sharp rebuke from federal politicians who are concerned the act may have undermined Australia’s national security.

The Chinese police were permitted to enter Australia in 2019 to talk with a 59-year-old Chinese-born Australian resident.

The woman was targeted under a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) anti-corruption drive called Operation Fox Hunt, which relies on police from the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) to make arrests.

Her case is one of 283 cases documented by an international NGO, Safeguard Defenders, in its recent report, Chasing Fox Hunt.

While Fox Hunt is described by the CCP as targeting “economic criminals”, human rights groups have said it is also used to silence dissidents and abduct people around the world.

  • Wanderer@lemm.eeEnglish
    662·
    7 months ago

    In the UK there was a peaceful protester and the Chinese dragged him into the embassy grounds and beat him in front of the public. They have diplomatic immunity.

    Nothing was done obviously.

    No wonder China and Russia shit over us and act like we are weak. We are. We proved it multiple times.

    Fuck the West is shadow of what it once was.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      89·
      7 months ago

      Yeah, it’s not like western governments, “intelligence” agencies or police would ever beat protesters, persecute political dissidents, murder civilians, torture suspects in designated black sites, ally with dictatorships who torture and murder journalists with bone saws, overthrow democratically elected governments, or engage in any behavior that is horrifically anti-democratic or anti-human rights.

      That time when the west was historically great was a lie. We were only better than fascism or communism, but our ruling class, the politicians they own, and their corporations have always engaged in horrific shit. Ours just hide behind the media and a liability shield of a dozen LLC’s, or do it hidden behind closed doors — unless you’re a palestinian, protester, communist, or a dozen other groups who are okay to oppress publicly at any given time.

      • Chee_Koala@lemmy.worldEnglish
        52·
        7 months ago

        Yeah and everyone knows: Whataboutisms are a really great way to argue your point!

        • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          22·
          7 months ago

          It would be Whataboutism if I defended the accusations against China or Russia. I explicitly said we were better — just only better than the bottom of the barrel — and the whole point of my comment was to refute the right-wing nationalist fantasy that we were historically “strong”, “great” or “righteous”; a time that never existed in reality.

          I suggest you learn what maketh a logical fallacy.

        • jalkasieni@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          171·
          7 months ago

          The name originally comes from Finland and the Winter War, where they were used against soviet tanks.

            • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
              12·
              7 months ago

              Why don’t you quote that whole paragraph:

              The name’s origin came from the propaganda Molotov produced during the Winter War, mainly his declaration on Soviet state radio that incendiary bombing missions over Finland were actually “airborne humanitarian food deliveries” for their “starving” neighbours.[13][10][better source needed] As a result, the Finns sarcastically dubbed the Soviet incendiary cluster bombs “Molotov bread baskets” (Finnish: Molotovin leipäkori) in reference to Molotov’s propaganda broadcasts.[14][10] When the hand-held bottle firebomb was developed to attack and destroy Soviet tanks, the Finns called it the “Molotov cocktail”, as “a drink to go with his food parcels”.[15][16]

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      412·
      7 months ago

      the Chinese dragged him into the embassy grounds and beat him in front of the public

      Uh… any link on that? I’m not finding this reference anywhere.