Chinese police will patrol in Hungary alongside Hungarian officers after an agreement with Budapest, raising fears of Beijing oppression being meted out in Europe

I wish kicking out Orbán would become a topic in the election this year

I thought China denied that there are any Chinese "police" stations in Europe?

They deny all sorts of things:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/05/italy-home-11-unofficial-chinese-police-stations-world

230,000 Chinese "persuaded to return" from abroad, China to establish Extraterritoriality --- (Sep 2022)

A new law adopted 2 September, going into effect 1 December, establishes full extraterritoriality over Chinese and foreigners globally for certain crimes (fraud, telecom fraud, online scams, etc.)

A follow-up to this investigation with additional information, 'Patrol and Persuade', has been released in Dec 2022, and again in Nov 2023, 'China's Consular Volunteers.'

There are lot of other reports across the web, e.g., for Netherlands, the U.S., and many others.

Lets them spy on Chinese nationals who are studying and working in the west

That's also the big thing security experts are actually worried about when they talk about the threat posed by TikTok,

It's not that it spies just on you, it's that your instance is also spying on everyone around you. It'll identify Chinese nationals in your proximity and start collecting data on what they're up to, and if Beijing doesn't like what they're seeing, those police will pay them a visit, not to arrest them of course, just to let them know how disappointed their families will be in them...from inside the reeducation camp.

They do it covertly, too.

China wants to maintain full control of anyone who it views as it’s citizens (importantly distinct from actual citizens), regardless of whether or not they’re in China, and regardless of whether or not they have PRC citizenship or not.

Most nations would object to this, especially if it involves the PRC exerting jurisdiction within the host country’s borders, potentially on the host country’s citizens, and almost certainly on the host country’s legal residents. Orban, evidently, does not.

Not to defend either, but why does the United States. It's wrong for either. But at least if a country's leadership invites them in. That's on the leadership. And while I'm still for basic gun control. Hungary, if you're listening, don't let them take all your guns. As much as the cult members in the US babble about nothing. If it ever actually happened, the outcome has never been good.

• I dearly love all these down votes. LOL. By being unhypocritical and consistent, it's somehow enough to piss all of y'all off. Even though I agree that China doing this is bad. Simply because I said it's bad when the US has done it in the past as well. You all lose your shit.
• Actually looking back on this now. I can kind of see how this may have stirred up so many of you. I said China was wrong for doing this. That stirred up the Marxist leninists and tankies. But also pointed out that it's wrong for America or any other country to do that. Which brought out a screeching horde of neoliberal apologists and imperials. Then I said I supported gun control. Which stirred up the hornet's nest of conservatives. But said that they should protect their access to guns to defend themselves against what's to come. Which just pissed off neoliberals again. I guess there's something mildly heartwarming about it. When you can see groups that so often hypocritically fight against each other so much. Actually be able to come together and attack the same thing/person. Because their shared hypocrisy was exposed.

It's like the human centipede, but it's a circle, Putler, Orban, Xi.

Minus eleven

"They only "earn" that monopoly because ostensibly they have been authorized democratically by the people."

Well, that might be the social framework fir a democracy. But we are talking about Hungary here.

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THIS!

USB-C on phones is a good thing. The reason why the USB-C requirement passed while pressure on the Hungarian government fails is not because more people worked on the USB-C directive than work on strategies to pressure the Hungarian government. Rather there were considerably fewer people working against the USB-C directive.

I would hope that they have more than two people working there, so I'd expect them to be able to work on both at the same time.

Are there incidents of overseas Chinese not listening to the Hungarian police? If not, what's the justification here?

What a weird solution to a foreign power soldiers not obeying local law enforcement. Just lock them up, or let the German soldiers handle it.