At present, 54 nations with over 110 stations are reportedly functioning under the mandate of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), undertaking monitoring and coercion of nearly 230,000 Chinese living abroad to return to China and face charges for raising concerns over the brutality of Xi Jinping’s regime.
The typical modus operandi of the secret Police is to control Chinese residents by hook or crook; the tactics adopted by the Chinese police range from threats, coercion, illegal arrests and forced disappearances of family members living in China, kidnapping, or luring Chinese dissidents to a foreign country having relatively less strict laws or with whom China holds good bilateral relations.
Persuasion, intimidation, and harassment are utilised, either through the victim’s family, friends, and loved ones staying in China, or with agents approaching the target overseas.
Chinese secret police stations set up in foreign countries play an important role in all these activities.