IIRC I think it was just helping people with filling out forms and updating their chinese drivers licences and stuff like that, because in china it’s not the sole function of the police to enact violence and oppression, which confused the FBI
Also they weren’t even police they were like volunteers acting as liaisons who you could go to for in-person stuff when travel restrictions were in place. Also I think the obstruction of justice charge was for the volunteers deleting their group chat when they found out they were under investigation
There was one that got "busted" that appeared to literally just be a social club for Chinese citizens living in California founded in the nineties, but hey they answered a phone call from a Beijing police station one time so that means they must be secretly intimidating Chinese citizens abroad. But yeah most of them were created during COVID as annexes to the Chinese embassy which would normally be the place where you'd take care of paperwork while abroad.
What did the US think would happen when they started to arrest Chinese "secret police"? No tit for tat?
What did those turn out to be? I’m guessing normal shit?
IIRC I think it was just helping people with filling out forms and updating their chinese drivers licences and stuff like that, because in china it’s not the sole function of the police to enact violence and oppression, which confused the FBI
Also they weren’t even police they were like volunteers acting as liaisons who you could go to for in-person stuff when travel restrictions were in place. Also I think the obstruction of justice charge was for the volunteers deleting their group chat when they found out they were under investigation
There was one that got "busted" that appeared to literally just be a social club for Chinese citizens living in California founded in the nineties, but hey they answered a phone call from a Beijing police station one time so that means they must be secretly intimidating Chinese citizens abroad. But yeah most of them were created during COVID as annexes to the Chinese embassy which would normally be the place where you'd take care of paperwork while abroad.