The Chinese regime is aggressively targeting exiles and dissident communities abroad, as it extends its ability to persecute its citizens anywhere in the world, a new report warns. Kidnappings, assaults, and threats are just some of the tactics used by Beijing to repress overseas-based critics, and religious and ethnic minorities, in a campaign described by advocacy group Freedom House as the “most sophisticated and comprehensive” in the world. Since 2014, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been involved in at least 214 cases of physical attacks on its nationals abroad—the largest by far compared to other countries, the group said in its report on transnational repression released on Feb. 4. “The sheer breadth and global scale of the campaign is unparalleled,” the report said. In a high-profile case, Chinese agents abducted Gui Minhai, a Hong Kong-based Swedish citizen, in Thailand in 2015, for publishing books critical of the regime’s leaders. …