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Re:230K Chinese “persuaded to return” from abroad to establi... by kccqzy on Sunday October 02, 2022 @01:45AM (#33053209)
They are not "operating" in any official capacity. They are just there, doing their "persuasion." Remember the USA and Europe have good free speech laws that will protect those "persuasion."

Even with police cooperation agreements in place, they don't have the usual police power like arresting anyone.

A NYT article from back in 2016 says,

> In 2014 […] That was the year the two countries signed a bilateral police cooperation agreement, the first of its kind between China and a European nation.

> The Chinese officers do not have arrest powers in Italy, but they are paired with Italian officers who could arrest someone, except no arrests have been needed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/13/world/europe/chinese-poli...

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Re:230K Chinese “persuaded to return” from abroad to establi... by kergonath on Sunday October 02, 2022 @03:07AM (#33053653)
> Remember the USA and Europe have good free speech laws that will protect those "persuasion."

I know the US is a special case, but in most of Europe, free speech does not cover threats, intimidation and blackmail.

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Re:230K Chinese “persuaded to return” from abroad to establi... by semiquaver on Sunday October 02, 2022 @06:25AM (#33054656)
Laws are only as good as the prosecutors enforcing them, and with the support of a nation state it’s very easy to evade criminal prosecution. I suspect that few if any European legal systems are set up to effectively deal with an adversary operating in this manner.
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Re:230K Chinese “persuaded to return” from abroad to establi... by Bud on Sunday October 02, 2022 @09:32AM (#33055731)
Huh? The US is not a "special case" in this way.
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Re:230K Chinese “persuaded to return” from abroad to establi... by kergonath on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @02:35AM (#33092027)
I meant in terms of how people view free speech in general
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