China has been operating overseas police stations in G20 member states in the name of hunting down fugitives and recovering stolen assets. But according to a former Chinese diplomat, the presence of Chinese officers overseas is an open attack on the free societies in the host nations, and that China’s ruling communist party has shifted from covert to brazenly public espionage strategies.
Chen Yonglin—the former consul for political affairs at the Chinese consulate in Sydney, Australia, who defected in 2005—says that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has simply given up on keeping its espionage efforts on foreign soils secret after its overseas police stations were recently exposed….