Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 5 months agoWhat's going on with the "Chinese Police Stations" in Canada thing?message-squaremessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up178arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up178arrow-down1message-squareWhat's going on with the "Chinese Police Stations" in Canada thing?Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square25fedilinkfile-text
It sounds like Canada is freaking out about consular offices doing consular office stuff. Wtf is going on?
minus-squareChronicon [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·5 months agoI think last year it was the US freaking out about this same thing
minus-squareNewAcctWhoDis [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·5 months agoFound the Justice Department press release about this one: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-arrested-operating-illegal-overseas-police-station-chinese-government Funny how they say “operating a police station” so many times without actually stating what that entails.
minus-squareFrank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·5 months agoYeah, all the articles i could dig up befor ei figured i’d ask here used “police station” and, like, what, is the Beijing metro police over here writing parking tickets or something?
I think last year it was the US freaking out about this same thing
Found the Justice Department press release about this one: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-arrested-operating-illegal-overseas-police-station-chinese-government
Funny how they say “operating a police station” so many times without actually stating what that entails.
Yeah, all the articles i could dig up befor ei figured i’d ask here used “police station” and, like, what, is the Beijing metro police over here writing parking tickets or something?