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China using families as 'hostages' to quash dissent abroad (www.bbc.co.uk)

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[–] SpooneyOdin@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (10 children)

This is pretty crazy if true. I wonder if it has any connections to the alleged "ghost" CCP police stations that were reported around in Canada. I believe it was being claimed the stations were being used to bully Chinese people that were in Canada.

[–] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 years ago (7 children)

That was yet another crazy China Bad conspiracy theory, same as this one.

[–] psilocybin@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the source, definitely gonna read it later.

when I researched I thought a couple of things were off curious what light the article shines on that

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