An online post by a local police bureau in China lists a shopping mall location in Richmond, B.C., as one of the bureau’s affiliated Chinese overseas police service centres. The phone number of the centre matches the contact number of the B.C.-based Canadian Association of Nantong Merchants Abroad.
The post by the Nantong Public Security Bureau, which is being first reported in English by The Epoch Times, was published in July 2020. Nantong is a city in China’s eastern coastal province of Jiangsu.
The post said the Nantong police bureau in 2016 took the lead to establish China’s “first police-and-overseas-Chinese joint service centre” in collaboration with the Municipal Overseas Chinese Affairs Office and the Association of Nantong Merchants Abroad (ANMA). The Canadian Association of Nantong Merchants Abroad, a non-profit organization registered in B.C., is a branch of the ANMA….