cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/46972708
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A man who spent a decade and a half working as a Chinese spy has shared details of some of his missions with Radio-Canada, including what he knows about a Chinese dissident who died in B.C., Canada, in 2022.
“From 2008 to 2023, my real job was to work for China’s secret police. It’s a means for political repression,” said “Eric,” who was interviewed in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. “Its main targets are dissidents who criticize the Chinese Communist Party.”
Eric shared a variety of documents — including financial records, secret money transfers and the names of spies — with journalists from the Australian Broadcasting Corp. and the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, of which CBC/Radio-Canada is a partner.
The records give an unprecedented glimpse at the inner workings of China’s overseas spy operations.
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For 15 years, Eric worked for the 1st Bureau at China’s Ministry of Public Security, a unit that specializes in surveillance of dissidents abroad. He previously told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. that he spied on a Japanese-based cartoonist and a YouTuber exiled in Australia. Often, he said, his cover was working for real companies in the countries where he was deployed — companies that collaborated with China’s secret police.
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In 2020, Eric said he was tasked with snooping on a dissident named Hua Yong, an artist and hardcore opponent of China’s Communist Party who eventually ended up on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast.
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After several failed attempts to flee China, Eric finally succeeded in 2023. The former spy wanted to go to Canada to claim asylum but ended up in Australia because he was able to get a tourist visa there.
The world has a right to know what China’s secret police are up to, Eric said, adding that revealing it publicly actually buys him a measure of protection.
Meanwhile, the police investigation into Hua’s death isn’t officially closed because three years later, the B.C. Coroners Service still hasn’t completed its report, which normally takes about 16 months.
Eric said he’s had no contact with Canadian police but that he did confidentially send some documents to the Hogue commission, Canada’s public inquiry into foreign interference.
“There are some strange aspects to this case that demand further investigation,” he said.
As an addition, a recent study examining China’s transnational repression on German soil says:
Dissidents are put under pressure, families are used as leverage, communities are infiltrated, and political participation is severely restricted. This policy paper analyzes China’s transnational repression and provides not only an in-depth insight into the structures and methods of repression but also outlines concrete legal and political reforms aimed at making Germany’s democracy more resilient.
Sweet, Hotznplotzn, already more clever than the crap you cited further up. I don’t have the energy or time now to clean up after you again, of course that makes things easier for you.
But a neo-con FDP think tank with a dissident from the times of the attempted Hong Kong colour revolution as the author of the report, good stuff, good stuff.
Interesting that you always dig up people supported by the West. Is that about the same as when people here are supported by Russia or China, or doesn’t that work in this direction because those are our enemies after all?
Everybody really should know by now what “freedom” (Freiheit) means to the FDP (neo-con liberal party with 3,5 %), namely FUCK THE POOR AND WORKERS, MAKE WAY FOR CAPITAL. And that’s why we should, of course, treat any report about an ideologically different nation state that such a foundation shits out with the credibility you would like us to.
I would love to support such dissidents, if they weren’t always so conspicuous with their capitalist freedom fantasies.
Jesus, this reads like something out of a spy thriller. If it wasn’t from the CBC I wouldn’t believe it for a second.
This shit has been ongoing for decades everywhere. I read about this shit in Europe back in the 90s already, not much has changed
But I already see tankies furiously typing in this thread to make clear this thing we’re seeing is absolutely not true, China is awesome, the Chinese government is awesome and Pooh Bear is… Fuck, I messed it up, now I’m on a tankie list…
This is by far not the only such story. Many NGOs such as Safeguard Defenders, a human rights organization focusing on China, provide deep insights in China’s transnational repression, for example in its Transnational Repression Reporting Guide.
As the article also says, China is ramping up its collective punishment of families:
… China’s CCP pressured the 70-year-old father of activist Yang Zhanqing’s to get his son to stop his rights work. After Yang, who lives in exile in the US, refused, his aged father lost his job and his home.
“Activists get used to this [CCP harassment] after being subjected to it so many times, but for people like my father, to them it’s like the world is ending,” says Yang.
Former miner Dong Jianbiao paid the ultimate price.
In 2022, he died in prison, his bruised body covered in blood. Police rushed through the cremation, forbidding the family their request for an autopsy.
The CCP punished Dong because his daughter splashed ink over a poster of Xi Jinping in 2018. She has since disappeared into the black hole of China’s illegal psychiatric detentions …
Damn. Reads like something our Conservatives would like to do in the US. Suggesting people who burn flags or disrespect the leadership should be (jailed, shot, institutionalized, deported, whatever…). Funny that at the same time they rail against the harsh rule of “communist” China.
And you consider that a credible source?
An obscure Western “NGO,” a private foundation with opaque funding structures, with one co-founder being American and the other a Swede who was already imprisoned in China and then deported, two bros in their thirties who already ran similar setups before this NGO, e.g., Chinese Urgent Action Working Group. The “Safeguard Defenders” from the West, with the explicit mission statement of meddling in China’s affairs, which states:
supports local field activities that contribute to the protection of basic rights, promote the rule of law, and enhance the ability of local civil society and human rights defenders in some of the most hostile environments in Asia
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Asia is among the most world’s most repressive regions in terms of freedom of speech and has one of the worst records in persecuting journalists.
Well, they definitely have a mission, that’s for sure. How would we perceive that here, i.e., the other way around, hmmmm?!
Xinhua News Agency January 19, 2016
Recently, the national security organs and the public security organs jointly cracked a case of endangering national security, successfully defeating an illegal organization that has long received overseas financial support, trained and funded a number of “agents” in China in the name of the “China Rights Protection Emergency Assistance Group”, and engaged in criminal activities that endanger national security. Criminal suspects such as Peter Yesper Darling (Swedish nationality) have been taken criminal coercive measures in accordance with the law.
I’m sure they’ve never had anything to do with any Three-Letter-Agency and are totally not biased or anything. And we also know, everything that comes from China is bad and evil and lies and so on (as showcased once again with the article you posted).
Interestingly, seemingly the same people who already reported on the ominous Chinese police stations in Western nations.
That’s why we should take everything these nice gentlemen report very seriously, you’re absolutely right, Chief Lemmy Propagandist (Section Germany) Hotznplotzn.
Lol, that’s like a report that you’d find in similar kind in any country. Pretty sure any reporting on that would be from a source that you as a chauvinist, sinophobic propagandist would dismiss. Point being, this fucker got caught. And you are a propagandist and should be permabanned.
All your posts and comments are about “Chyna bad”. We get it, dude. Your current rank only gets you a posting on the lemmy team. Gotta pump those numbers up for the paid reddit assignment.
How is Eric and Li alive but not Hua?
