Not just the US, people who have escaped China and become citizens in other countries have still be threatened and harassed by the Chinese government.
They routinely use threats against people's family members in China to suppress their activism, even going so far as to kill them.
Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and Boeing share the same playbook.
Don’t forget India
At least in China's case, the harassment extends to ethnically Chinese people who have lived their entire lives abroad and never set foot in China.
Reminds me of how Russia looks at Ukrainians as delinquent Russians.
This appears to be the new norm among autocratic regimes (although it isn't all that new - think of Trotsky, for example, or the infamous umbrella murder).
Vietnam is doing this as well:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%E1%BB%8Bnh_Xu%C3%A2n_Thanh
https://rsf.org/en/dissident-exile-stops-blogging-because-family-vietnam-being-hounded
Eritrea, a regime that is similarly repressive as North Korea, but far less known, is also notorious for this:
Saudi Arabia is among the worst in this regard:
https://freedomhouse.org/report/transnational-repression/saudi-arabia
I'm getting the impression that liberal democracies housing refugees and dissidents from autocratic regimes are unprepared to counter these threats. It is our responsibility to protect people seeking refuge and this includes proactive action against governments that seek to extend their violent rule outside of their borders.
India had a Sikh activist killed in Canada a year or so ago. And Modi predictably freaked out when publicly called out on it.
Arrests were recently made in that case.
I'm glad Canada called them out on that. Insane that they ordered a hit like that from within Canada.
I was so shocked when Trudeau publicly implicated the Indian government. They really must have solid proof of it for him to do so.
This happens in Europe too. I hope the european agencies are similarly engaged in protecting dissidents. There have been numerously stories as of late about China using their embassy as a 'chinese police station'.
~~Surprised they didn't also mention India who has been hiring hitmen to take out Sikhs they consider a separatist threat in both US and Canada.~~
nvm I overshot the paragraph
The Justice Department, for instance, announced a disrupted plot last November to kill a Sikh activist in New York that officials said was directed by an Indian government official.
And here we sit in Canada as India just assassinates the people living here they don't like.
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