China’s communist regime increasingly brings back nationals who have sought refuge abroad against their will while maintaining a pretense that the returns are voluntary. The methods put to use by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) functionaries cross the line from harassment and threats into coercion and kidnapping. That’s according to Laura Harth, a human rights activist and campaign director of Madrid-based advocacy group Safeguard Defenders, who spoke to EpochTV’s “China Insider” program on March 24. “China’s transnational oppression has many faces. One of the major areas of focus that Safeguard Defenders has had is looking at the issue of involuntary returns,” she said. The involuntary returns campaign is carried out under the auspices of the CCP’s “Operation Sky Net,” which began in 2015 with the goal of hunting fugitives whom the CCP claimed to want to bring to justice for economic crimes, Harth said. The undertaking is part of the anti-corruption …