The State Department has called out the Chinese regime for intimidating and exacting reprisals against targets globally to advance its political goals.
In its long-anticipated international human rights report, published on Aug. 12, the department noted the wide-ranging ways Beijing’s campaign takes form, including assaults, harassment, hacking, anonymous threats, and bullying through proxies.
Victims of the regime’s long-arm tactics, often called transnational repression, are also broad-based, with the report listing ethnic Uyghurs, spiritual practitioners, dissidents, foreign journalists, and Chinese students and faculty members studying outside China as common targets.
The department cited research by the D.C.-based nonprofit Freedom House, which found the Chinese regime responsible for “the most comprehensive and sophisticated” transnational repression campaign in the world, at times co-opting other countries’ institutions to force targeted individuals back to China—where they’re often in danger of persecution….
State Department Spotlights Beijing’s Global Repression in New Report
