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| Chinese police to dispatch anti-terror liaisons |
| 2008-12-03 |
| China plans to send additional police liaisons to countries facing major terror threats in a bid to boost cooperation with local security forces and head-off attacks, the Public Security Ministry said Wednesday. The move adds to more aggressive tactics against terror threats, particularly those from activists battling for an independent Muslim homeland in the far western territory of Xinjiang. An announcement on the ministry's Web site said police officers already posted abroad had played a key role in heading off attacks on Chinese diplomatic missions and financial institutions. The notice did not give the names of countries where attacks had been foiled or provide other details. Without naming specific nations, the ministry said police officers would be dispatched to countries where "anti-terrorism tasks are relatively heavier." Separately, it said a police unit would be sent to Australia and other countries that are home to large numbers of Chinese students and immigrants. According to the official China Daily newspaper, China dispatched its first police liaison to the United States in 1998 and now has a total of 30 posted to 19 different countries. Police liaisons also have helped in the identification, arrest and extradition of alleged criminals allied with groups fighting against Chinese rule in the country's traditionally Muslim Turkic Xinjiang region, the announcement said. Along with anti-terrorism, police liaisons work on drug trafficking and other transnational crimes, as well as on tracking down Chinese officials and employees of state financial institutions who have fled abroad with embezzled funds or to avoid prosecution. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #4 Danielle, if I recall correctly the Chinese toothpaste and cough medicine were made with a manufacturing(?) grade of glycerin, rather than food grade or medical grade. This made no sense to Mr. Wife, who commented at the time that high grade glycerin is quite inexpensive. JosephM, I've read a number of articles recently about Chinese children of the sod, having gone to the cities for jobs and adventure, are now returning home because the jobs have gone, leaving them with nothing more than some manufacturing skills and a new approach to life. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-12-03 22:32 |
| #3 WORLD MILITARY FORUM > CHINA'S SYSTEM OF REGIONAL ETHNIC AUTONOMY CANNOT BE SHAKEN. e.g. TIBET. The Chin-perceived strengths and weaknesses of the PRC's national territorial and ethnic set-up. OTOH, INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > LABOR UNREST SPREADS IN CHINA. Aproximately 150Milyuhn or so Chin from rural areas unable to find work or good pay in China's fast-growing, fast-industrializing major Cities??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-12-03 22:07 |
| #2 Double edged sword - the Chicoms always seek to keep very close tabs and strings on their ex-pats. More than one mainland Chinese has been pressured into spying for the govt when s/he didn't really want to. FWIW |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-12-03 19:56 |
| #1 Interesting. I watched a Food Channel show on the Caribbean island food, where they demonstrated how to make roti. Apparently the British Empire abolished slavery in the 1830's and replaced the Africans with cheap labor from India and China. The Chinese have infused quite a bit of money into the region, as well as tainted products, as there were several deaths from cough syrup and toothpaste with melamine or some such chemical contamination in Panama. Chinese anti-terror task forces wouldn't raise much suspicion, I'm guessing, and may be quite useful to the rest of us. |
| Posted by: Danielle 2008-12-03 17:25 |