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Irish Times- Why is there a Chinese police outpost on Dublin’s Capel Street? https://archive.ph/zQuXW https://archive.ph/zQuXW
by anotherhue 4y ago
Irish Times- Why is there a Chinese police outpost on Dublin’s Capel Street?
https://archive.ph/zQuXW https://archive.ph/zQuXW
- hef19898 4y agoOne could make the case, that the people working there should be a) arrested or b) expelled from the country. Same goes for every other nation in which China maintains those stations, they are all over Europe it seems. But hey, at least China is doing it themselves instead ofisusing Interpol red notices like other authoritarian regimes do.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> people working there should be a) arrested or b) expelled from the country If they’ve threatened or kidnapped someone on behalf of the CCP, they should be tried as what they are: covert agents, possibly of an adversary.
- hef19898 4y agoAbsolutely. That's not gonna happen so, is it? And from a very cynical poijt of view I get it, this is basically an intelligence (as in spy craft during the cold war) war. And our Western intel services propably have a high interest in learbing as much as they can about the methods, tools and operations of their Chinese counterparts. And as long as China only kidnaps and harasses their own people, who cares? Heck, even if it would be "own" people, it would still be a trade-off.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> as long as China only kidnaps and harasses their own people, who cares They’re also Americans and Britons. Most people do care. In America, I find it highly unlikely we won’t see a push for severe prosecution of this. There is no downside; you can still get counterintel by sealing records and moling them.
- euroderf 4y agoI would have trouble imagining, in the 1980s, a KGB station on M Street NW, DC. So what's with Chinese police stations ?