Tag: informants

Comedian Arrested in Beijing as Informants Become Norm Again in China, Eroding Mutual Trust

May 28, 2023
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Recently, there is a growing trend of people informing on others secretly in Chinese society, with multiple high profile incidents occurring in succession. Current affairs analysts point out that the culture of reporting others to the authorities is a typical product of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ideology, and breeds a lack of trust between…

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Hong Kong Offers Cash Rewards to Informants on ‘National Security’ Matters Amid Continuing Clampdown on Dissent

June 21, 2022
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China’s Ministry of State Security issued new regulations on June 6 to reward citizens for reporting so-called “acts endangering national security” to the authorities. The pro-Beijing Hong Kong government simultaneously rolled out a “Counter-Terrorism Reporting Hotline” and encouraged Hongkongers to “provide clues on terrorism-related crimes.” The cash reward for snitchers in Hong Kong can be…

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Facts Matter (Dec. 15): $548 Million Given to Informants by FBI and Other Agencies, Many Commit ‘Authorized’ Crime

December 15, 2021
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According to a new bombshell report, the FBI as well as several other federal agencies spent about half a billion dollars on informants over the course of the last several years—with many of these informants committing authorized crimes.  Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, the state supreme court recently ruled in favor of parents and officially threw out…

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