China is allegedly running more than 100 police stations in at least 53 countries. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SEOUL – South Korean authorities said on Thursday they are looking into unofficially set up Chinese “police stations” across the country after the alleged presence of such an entity came under scrutiny in Seoul earlier this year.
Last month, the intelligence service reached a tentative conclusion that a Chinese restaurant in central Seoul’s Songpa-gu was acting as a base for undeclared police operations for Beijing. According to Safeguard Defenders, a nongovernmental organisation based in Spain, China is allegedly running more than 100 police stations in at least 53 countries with the goal of expanding its influence and forcibly repatriating Chinese nationals.The so-called Chinese “secret police station” on South Korea’s Jeju Island does not exist and media reports of such a place have no basis in fact and are “deliberate speculation”, China’s consulate in Jeju said on Thursday, Reuters reported.
In a May 15 press briefing, the spokesman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Wang Wengbin reiterated that there are “no so-called overseas police stations” and that such accusations were “disinformation ... smearing and discrediting China.”
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