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Chinese police hunting international corruption targets were allowed into Australia by the federal police and subsequently escorted a woman back to China for trial, in a major breach of Chinese-Australian police protocols.

The revelations, contained in Monday night's Four Corners program about a former Chinese spy, prompted a sharp rebuke from federal politicians who are concerned the act may have undermined Australia's national security.

The Chinese police were permitted to enter Australia in 2019 to talk with a 59-year-old Chinese-born Australian resident.

The woman was targeted under a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) anti-corruption drive called Operation Fox Hunt, which relies on police from the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) to make arrests.

Her case is one of 283 cases documented by an international NGO, Safeguard Defenders, in its recent report, Chasing Fox Hunt.

While Fox Hunt is described by the CCP as targeting "economic criminals", human rights groups have said it is also used to silence dissidents and abduct people around the world.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’ll take 43C/109F

I would pass on it.

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Oasis agriculture in the Tarim Basin occupies a large part of the population

In the Tarim Basin, July temperatures average about 80 °F (27 °C)

...

After the Cultural Revolution, political and economic policies were moderated, leading to widespread improvement in the livelihood of farmers and pastoralists and to relative stability and economic growth in the region. This was accompanied—especially from the late 1990s—by increased economic investment in Xinjiang, as well as by an influx of Han from other parts of China.

Sounds awful. Enjoy your Australian prison.

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

And you enjoy your Chinese internment camp, maybe your organs will fetch a nice price for the apparatchik.

Or maybe westerners will look and point drunkenly at your plasticized, dissected body for entertainment.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Premier Exhibitions Inc is an Atlanta, Georgia-based company that organizes traveling exhibitions.

The Chinese of Atlanta Georgia?

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The one I saw was in Las Vegas but every single body was Chinese.

The reality is I'd rather sit in a Aussie prison in 46/115 heat than in a Chinese prison at a nice balmy 25/77.

Do you think the Chinese prison system is a better place than the Australian prison system?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’d rather sit in a Aussie prison in 46/115 heat than in a Chinese prison at a nice balmy 25/77.

I'm sorry if Chinese people make you feel so uncomfortable that you'd rather broil than be near them

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I have no issue with Asian people. It's the prison system that's the issue, but you know that and just want to cry racist because claiming the Chinese prison system is preferable is laughable at best, nice try tankie.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It’s the prison system that’s the issue

The Chinese prison system. Whereas the Australian prison system that kills people with heat stroke isn't a problem, because...

the Chinese prison system is preferable is laughable

Of course. Its doing all the progressive-y policies that big liberal states like California rolled back under the Reagan Era. Rehabilitation, job training, quality health care, and public reintegration are all policies the US system dismantled a generation ago, because it was seen as "Hugs for Thugs" and "Soft on Crime".

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You're going to believe whatever you do tankie, the rest of us know reality.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

believe whatever you do

It helps to base beliefs on sound data and observational evidence.

the rest of us know reality

Shouting "tankie" at your computer monitor is not a sign of strong reality-based reasoning.

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm the only one that's posted any links to any data or "observational evidence" (tips fedora lol neckbeard). All you've done is vaguely hint at Chinese prisons being preferable to Aussie ones.

I've never really gotten to see one of you in the wild.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’m the only one that’s posted any links to any data

Ah, so you're delusional. Cool.

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Fascinating.

Ever visted?