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>The case centered on Xu Jin, a former Chinese government official who moved to the United States over a decade ago "Over a decade ago" - 2010-12 - was when PR

>The case centered on Xu Jin, a former Chinese government official who moved to the United States over a decade ago "Over a decade ago" - 2010-12 - was when PRC dmismantled CIA intelligence network, and found out CIA infiltrated into CCP to the point of buying high level promotions. Queue anticorruption + operation foxhunt to purge and repatriate these individuals. Wonder if Xu is among them, timing lines up. Either way, in lieu of extradition treaties which US/west will not establish with PRC, not even for obvious financial criminals let alone dissidents, these extraterritorial operations will continue if only to keep setting examples that there's no golden passport for Chinese nationals and their offsprings who undermine PRC interests.

danrocks 3y ago
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Vt71fcAqt7 3y ago
Yup, that whole fiasco seriously puts into question the utility of the CIA and its ilk. The whole situation really spooked Xi Jinping and gave him good reason to clear house, ending up with our current situation. I wonder how many agents are in the high levels of the party today, if at all.
- red-iron-pine 3y ago
  Probably more than the CCP would like to admin. Money and houses in Vancouver didn't stop being effective levers, they just had to get more subtle.
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dan-rocks 3y ago
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- dang 3y ago
  You can't attack another user like that on HN, no matter how wrong they are or you feel they are. It leads to a lot of ugly things and the site guidelines specifically ask you not to. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, we'd appreciate it. (Since this is usually the point at which someone accuses us of being biased in favor of the other side: no, that's not how HN moderation works, and yes we make every effort to apply the rules evenhandedly.)

danrocks 3y ago

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Vt71fcAqt7 3y ago

Yup, that whole fiasco seriously puts into question the utility of the CIA and its ilk. The whole situation really spooked Xi Jinping and gave him good reason to clear house, ending up with our current situation. I wonder how many agents are in the high levels of the party today, if at all.

red-iron-pine 3y ago
Probably more than the CCP would like to admin. Money and houses in Vancouver didn't stop being effective levers, they just had to get more subtle.
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dan-rocks 3y ago

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dang 3y ago
You can't attack another user like that on HN, no matter how wrong they are or you feel they are. It leads to a lot of ugly things and the site guidelines specifically ask you not to. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, we'd appreciate it. (Since this is usually the point at which someone accuses us of being biased in favor of the other side: no, that's not how HN moderation works, and yes we make every effort to apply the rules evenhandedly.)