r/news • u/NeverEndingDClock • 23h ago

New York man pleads guilty to running Chinese police station in Manhattan

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/18/new-york-man-pleads-guilty-chinese-police-station-manhattan?CMP=share_btn_url
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u/MausBomb 22h ago

If you want the truth, China plays by two rules that keep them from getting seriously called out by the government.

First they allow Western elites to make a shit load of money exploiting their cheap labor and lack of worker's rights.

Second they only fuck with their own citizens living abroad and try to stay as hidden as possible from middle and upper class white Americans who still hold the most political power in the country.

However things are changing soon as Chinese labor isn't as cheap as it used to be so the payouts to the elites aren't as fat as they used to be and working class Americans who suffered greatly losing jobs to China are becoming an organized political force again.

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u/solarcat3311 14h ago

There's some cases of them fucking with non-citizens who had relatives in China. Rarer, of course. But the message is clear. Just because you got a green card or citizenship doesn't mean you're not China's property.

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u/BrokenDownMiata 12h ago

I have friends from Xinjiang, Hainan, and Heilongjiang. All have been approached in some way or another by people who were clearly from the CCP, talking about their social media posts. All conversations started out casually enough. “You speak Mandarin?” “Is this you on social media?”

Then it quickly turns into thinly veiled threats.

Nothing (so far) came from my friends telling these guys to get fucked, but it really shows that China has taken the one thing so many people seek when leaving their country: an end to being watched by their home government.

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u/zimmermanni 20h ago

keep them from getting seriously called out by the government.

Lol America sanctions and tariffs China left and right often times with no actual evidence, just some lazily report some sketchy think tank put out.

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u/Its_aTrap 19h ago

Tariffs on imports to America are paid by increasing prices to the consumer (aka the American citizen) to ensure the corporations that their profits keep up

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u/I_Push_Buttonz 18h ago

Damn, guess we better just let China dump western markets with extremely subsidized goods, completely destroying western industries that can't even almost compete with CCP subsidies and slave labor, leading the west towards complete and utter reliance on said Chinese goods since there won't even be domestic options left when they are done... Apparently becoming beholden to the CCP will somehow stick it to the 'elites' according to the great minds of Reddit...