China’s illegal police stations in 53 countries | 60 Minutes Australia
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Published 2023-06-18
It’s well known that China won’t stand for any criticism. There, opponents of the communist regime are simply not tolerated. But it seems Beijing now thinks it also has the right to ignore international borders and silence dissent anywhere it sees fit. Around the world it’s setting up illegal outposts called “Chinese Overseas Police Service Stations”, and as the name implies, the objective of these offices is clear. Our law enforcement agencies deny there are any of these stations in Australia, even though Chinese authorities openly publicise their existence.
But as Tara Brown reports in a special 60 MINUTES investigation, that’s not the end of the intimidation. China is also using disgraceful new tactics to target Australians who dare to speak out.
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All Comments (21)
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These incidents need to be treated as acts of terrorism and dealt with accordingly.
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They just shut down a huge Chinese police station in Chinatown in NYC literally within 1-3 blocks from an actual police station.
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How weak do you have to be to attack people who criticise you. Countries should stand against this and treat it as terrorism
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Man I hope the Australian authorities are doing something about this because this is scary
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Unbelievable that the Australian government is tolerating this.
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It's crazy to think that Australian 60 minutes found that address, but Australian Police say there are no Chinese Police stations there. Seems Australian Police and the Australian government are either inept or corrupt.
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How are these Chinese Police Stations allowed by any government, anywhere, allowed to harass civilians?
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The Govt in Canada seems to gutless to confront this problem here as well. It's ridiculous to continue to allow this to happen.
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The Australian government needs to step up and protect their citizens.
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I’m a recent graduate from Monash University Social Work Department. During my study at Monash, I went through a series of witch hunts by my faculty especially the field education department, which wasted two years of my time fighting this corrupted bureaucracy machine and the ridiculous accusations they put against me, just for speaking out against the CCP and the human rights abuse back home in Xinjiang during our lectures and placements. During my first-year social work placement at SCMHS Moorabbin, my supervisor there received a bunch of harassing emails and text messages daily, which at the time sparked her suspicions against me and later on my placement was ceased for mental health reasons by my university liaison officer who claims to be a second generation Chinese in Melbourne. After that, my faculty started a two-year-long effort to discredit me and silence me making my study/life difficult here at Monash University. I’m glad I’m able to finish this degree in the end, but I won’t stay silent about this journey. Great to see the media finally brought these issues to light, well done and thanks! I may not have much voice, but I believe JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED.
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“I do not believe you can exchange freedom for your safety”. Truer words have never been spoken. Americans take note
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I'm happy they finally opened the comments. Its still important to allow viewers to discuss the videos.
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Our Governments need to put an end to this immediately. Every Government is aware of this problem I am sure.
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Chinese police stations are a big issue here in Canada. The main leader of the opposition there is calling out the current government for not exposing and removing these illegal Chinese police in the country. The government keeps denying their existence.
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If the Australian Police force say there are no stations in Australia we have to belive them.....I dont think so. ""Man who sticks head in sand cannot see anything except sand""".
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Release the list HERE of the International Location of their offices.
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I feel it is important that our U.S. 60 Minutes should air this in America! Thank you for great reporting ❤🇺🇲🇹🇻
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The real story is the governments that know these stations exist and allow them
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Amazing how the Australian Goverment acted based on Mails whithout first confirming if the authors have been the ones sending them. Who sent thoses emails was hopping the authorities where "lack of knoledge" or "incompetent" and they succedded. The email TCPIP protocol SMTP is not a secure protocol and its known that anyone can send and impersonate emails in behalf of others (its as easy as a simple telnet to a mail replay). The only way to ensure that the author of the email is if the message is digitally signed (SMIME signature with a high Level of Assurance certificate issued by an authority). This is the only way an email can be confronted as been issued by the author, if not signed the message could be issued by anyone. And this aplies to any other messages as well (whatsapp, messenger, Twiter(X) ) because this social media services do not allow the author to keep the private key that signs the message sent (the service provider keeps control of the encyption keys). Hope this helps to clarify the how australian authorities lack of knolege have arrased australian citizens. Hopefully will help others prevent doing the same mistake. JVM
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The whole handling of this is very suspicious to me. Close those places for whatever reason they are there and send the people operating them home. Thats what you usually do.
