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That's rather naive, considering China has a international police unit, that is stationed in several countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_police_over
by dubcanada 1y ago
That's rather naive, considering China has a international police unit, that is stationed in several countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_police_overseas_service_stations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_police_overseas_servic...
- ceejayoz 1y agoThere's also the Mossad's approach to "you're out of our jurisdiction". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann
- wongarsu 1y agoAlso the CIA's approach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition Russia is more known for poisoning people. But of all of them China feels the least threatening if you are not Chinese. If you are Chinese you aren't safe from the Chinese government no matter where you are
- bigiain 1y agoAnd the Saudi Bone Saw Diplomatic Team.
- simlevesque 1y agoThey only arrest chinese citizens.
- Bjartr 1y agoRight, but the vast majority of people living in the USA as citizens have threat models that rightly do not include "Being disappeared by China"
- CamperBob2 1y agoWhat about the threat model that goes, "Trump threatens to impose 1000% tariffs if Chinese don't immediately turn over copies of all data captured by their AI products from users in the US?" Compounding the difficulty of the question: half of HN thinks this would be a good idea.
- WJW 1y agoThe history of tariff talks seems to indicate that rather than oblige, China would stop all shipments of semiconductors to the US and Trump would back down after a week or two.
- bigiain 1y agoTACO...
- CamperBob2 1y agoTrue. Now imagine a future POTUS who has all of Trump's faults except his endearingly-feckless idiocy.
- itishappy 1y agoI recently learned that the New York City Police Department has international presence as well. Not sure if it directly compares, but... what a world we live in. https://www.nycpolicefoundation.org/ourwork/advance/counterterrorism/ https://www.nycpolicefoundation.org/ourwork/advance/countert... https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/investigative/intelligence.page https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/investigative/intellig...
- aspenmayer 1y agoPretty sure NYPD has a budget in the billions and covers more landmass and population than some small countries, so there’s also that.
- MangoToupe 1y agoMan wait until you hear what's in DC (and the surrounding area). In any possible way China is a threat to my health, the US state and corporations based here are a far greater one.