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Depends on your citizenship and where you live. If the answer to both is "not China", what would you have to be afraid of?
If you piss them off enough they can kill you even if you're in another country.
I seriously doubt China assassinates foreigners on foreign soil. They're not America or even the USSR.
China sets up fake police offices in the US to harass Chinese citizens living there. If that doesn’t blow up your mind…
What blows my mind is that you read an article, and brought it up months or years later, and applied zero critical thinking.
What's more likely? China set up fake police stations in America, where they have no authority, so they can be mocked by people they have absolutely no power over?
Or they're there to provide legal services to Chinese citizens living abroad?
The situation is documented by many governments, not just the USA. Your ignorance betrays you.
I’m quite doubtful that you’re aware of the situations nuance, either. Is your best argument “what’s more likely?” Because, actually, I think it’s quite likely that China would have been instructive toward how their citizens should act abroad. I think it’s quite likely that China favors its own sovereignty over an individual’s sovereignty. If you’d try to convince me that there was no intimidation going on, I’d think you’re the one not applying critical thinking. Do you have any reason I should believe you over a much larger consensus between news organizations and reports from Chinese individuals? Anything that would demonstrate the opposite and more benevolent intentions of Chinese state efforts, as you’ve so claimed? Or are you just here to pose baseless claims and talk shit?
Well you can always go steal some data from them and find out for sure. I wonder if Polymarket will let us place bets on when you have a tragic accident.
I mean for hundreds of thousands of dollars? I quite like traveling to China, but I like having hundreds of thousands of dollars too.
Don't forget that if you get caught spending that money by the US, or whatever government rules over you, then you will spend the rest of your life eating prison cafeteria food and sleeping on a cot. You won't get a pass because you aren't working for the government, and they don't want people who don't respect authority being free inside their borders.
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If China was assassinating foreigners in foreign countries, every lemmy user would hear about it, there's multiple dedicated accounts that do nothing but post anti-chinese articles.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence etc.
Basing your international assassination evidence on lemmy posts, or lack there of, is hilarious.
It kinda is, since it implies chinese assassins either don't exist or are so small and super-competent they haven't left any evidence. Billions of people have phones and we don't have footage of alien abductions or Bigfoot, the absence of evidence is evidence of absence
There is no publicly available evidence that you have ever talked to a woman, therefor I conclude that you are afraid of women. There is no publicly available evidence that your mother loved you, therefor I conclude that your crippling fear of women stems from the lack of motherly love.
I just figured out your whole life story based on absence of evidence. According to you, that's completely fine and good.
I think you're being naive. Nobody can embarrass/piss off a world power then think their safe because they aren't a citizen of that county.
China recently passed an amendment to their Cybersecurity law giving them more power to go after international hackers like this.
China could pay someone to track down the hacker and catch or kill them. I think they have a part of their government for that actually. Maybe they quietly put a bounty on their head. How is china going to prevent this person from continuing to hack them or teach others how to do it? This is a serious problem for whoever hacked them.
The Chinese government has been pretty careful about following the rules when dealing with other countries, largely out of a naive belief that if they follow them, other countries will treat them accordingly, not understanding international norms is just America playing Calvin ball.
See: China joining the WTO, followed by the US simply breaking the organization to prevent any rulings against itself, or China's support for the Philippines and Indian governments instead of ideologically aligned communist movements, as if helping them stabilize themselves would benefit China in future dealings.
Alternativelly, they've just been competent in the execution of their less savory intelligence operations and thus not been caught doing something too outrageous.
It makes a lot more sense for China to arrange an "overdose" than shoot somebody in the middle of a busy street in broad daylight from a car with diplomatic plates and a Chinese flag.
Same for all other countries, by the way, though in Autocracies politicians have less to worry if the country ever gets caught murdering people in foreign soil than politicians in Democracies do (though, judging by a century of American murders, even those in supposed Democracies almost never have to worry about it)
Completely ignoring the stuff that's been happening in the South China Sea and the Indian border huh?
Not giving up your territory to minimize the number of adversarial military bases off your coast is entirely normal. Hell Taiwan still claims the 13 dash line, since Mainland China gave up some dashes here and there, including a couple to Vietnam once it was clear they weren't going to host foreign troops.
Maybe, they are just more competent and their secret operations stay more secret
lol maybe, but given that America has immigrant populations from nearly every country, I would be shocked if another country managed to have a more effective spy network, though the USSR had a shot due to their support of internationalism. "There's a Chinese assassin among us? That Chinese guy is kinda sus."
... that doesnt make sense.
The US is so mighty and diverse and great and all. This lofty claim would make them easier to target because diversity is already there so sending a chinese guy would not stand out.
America's ability to do spy shit in other countries is unrelated to their ability to catch spies. But yeah no in the past, such as when China caught the CIA using an unsecured wordpress site to communicate with assets, the CIA just blamed some random chinese guy.
What we're talking about is "The Great Game", not Tit-Tac-Toe.
For making fun of Pooh or talking about Tiananmen square? No. For selling a bunch of top secret military documents? I wouldn't be so sure.