The PRC's #TransnationalRepression reaches across the globe. From diaspora communities and universities to foreign officials and international organizations, Beijing seeks to silence critics and shape narratives through intimidation, coercion, and harassment.
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The Iranian people deserve to determine their own destiny - and we should do everything we can to give them the space to reclaim their country.
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🌍 Africa is preparing to supply more gas to Europe
Nigeria, Niger, and Algeria have launched construction of a 4,128-kilometre gas pipeline, according to Business Insider.
The pipeline is expected to deliver up to 30 billion cubic metres of natural gas per year. Algeria has already begun work on its section of the project.
If completed, it will become one of the largest gas transport routes in Africa.
Canada signed a police cooperation agreement with China's Ministry of Public Security. The full text is classified. Beijing must approve its release before Canadians can read it. Let that sink in.
South Korea's National Police Agency has done the same, with agreements running not just at the national level but between Seoul Metropolitan Police and Beijing's Public Security Bureau, Busan and Shanghai, multiple provincial agencies paired directly with Chinese counterparts. Public petitions to cancel them passed 50,000 signatures.
Both agreements are framed as tools to fight telecom fraud and cross-border crime. Both governments insist Chinese officers have no operational authority on their soil. Both are currently led by administrations that have made warmer China ties a foreign policy priority in 2025 and 2026.
What neither government addresses: the Ministry of Public Security is the same institution that runs China's overseas harassment networks, the "Fox Hunt" operations that pressure diaspora members to return to China under threats to their families, and the transnational repression apparatus that monitors Chinese communities abroad in both countries. The MPS does not operate a clean "anti-fraud" division separate from its political control functions. It is one institution. You cooperate with all of it or none of it.
One government signed an agreement whose text requires Beijing's permission to release to its own citizens. The other signed multiple agreements at both national and municipal levels while its citizens filed 50,000 petitions against them.
Both call it routine law enforcement cooperation. Both have governments that just visited Beijing and signed strategic partnerships. That context is not irrelevant.
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If you criticize the Chinese government from overseas, your parents can lose their pensions, your siblings can lose their jobs, and your children can be barred from universities. This is not a side effect of CCP policy. It is the policy.
Human rights organizations Safeguard Defenders and Chinese Human Rights Defenders have documented what they describe as a systematic revival of lianzu, China's ancient collective punishment system, adapted for the Xi Jinping era. When an overseas dissident speaks out, the consequences flow to everyone who shares their blood inside China.
The documented forms are specific. Parents and siblings lose jobs in state enterprises or government positions. Family businesses face sudden, relentless tax audits with no resolution. Pensions and social benefits are frozen without formal charges. Children, nieces, and nephews receive political black marks on their records that block university admission, passport applications, and the political vetting required for any stable career in China.
The cases are real and named. Dong Jianbiao, father of activist Dong Yaoqiong, who threw ink on Xi Jinping's portrait in a 2018 video, was detained after his daughter's act and died in prison under circumstances that remain unexplained. Activist He Fangmei's young children, including a newborn, were placed in psychiatric facilities or disappeared from contact after she continued speaking out. Wang Quanzhang, a lawyer arrested in the 2015 crackdown on human rights attorneys, had his child face school difficulties while he was held incommunicado for years.
In December 2023, China's own Legislative Affairs Commission quietly acknowledged that some local governments had been applying collective punishment in anti-fraud campaigns, restricting family benefits and loans of suspects' relatives, and called it unconstitutional. The rebuke was narrow. It covered those specific campaigns. It did not address the same practices applied to political dissidents, which continued without interruption.
The United Nations, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch have all raised concerns. China denies systematic collective punishment and describes these actions as lawful enforcement. The families living under these measures are not in a position to publicly disagree.
The CCP reaches through borders, through blood, and across generations to ensure that the cost of speaking is paid by everyone who loves you.
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By supporting Ukraine, we deter aggression everywhere, combat authoritarianism and reaffirm that the United States does not abandon those who fight for freedom.
While some have been unwilling to stand up to Vladimir Putin, the Congress must.
Tonight, House Democrats did.
As we mark the 37th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, we remember the courageous students and citizens who stood up for freedom and paid the ultimate price.
Their voices were met with tanks—but their call for democracy endures.
37 years ago today, the Chinese Communist Party set the military against its own people, killing & injuring thousands. Xi Jinping can try his hardest to erase this history, but we will never forget - and we will always stand with the people of China who seek freedom.
China has imposed its first travel bans on New Zealand lawmakers after they visited Taiwan, escalating Beijing’s efforts to isolate Taipei and deter foreign governments from engaging with the self-ruled democracy https://t.co/4El6XETNRf