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  • In this case, the issue is clearly about ethnic Chinese targeting their own citizens.

    And it’s even worse as has been known for some time, as the rise of Chinese organized crime in the West highlights its ties to the Chinese state,

    … As the regime of President Xi Jinping expands its international power, it has intensified its alliance with Chinese organized crime overseas. [Investigations in multiple countries] show the underworld’s front-line role in a campaign to infiltrate the West, amass wealth and influence, and control diaspora communities as if they were colonies of Beijing’s police state.

    … Around the world, China’s shadow war of espionage, long-distance repression, political interference and predatory capitalism is drawing attention and alarm. Governments and human rights groups have denounced … a global network of covert Chinese police stations that spy on Chinese migrant communities and persecute dissidents — wherever they live … The Chinese state has sent illegal undercover teams to chase down fugitives in wealthy U.S. suburbs, surveilled and silenced Chinese students on foreign campuses, and allegedly supported the Chinese money laundering underworld that fortifies cartels inundating the Americas with deadly drugs …

    … The partnership [between the Chinese state and the Chinese mafia] appears to mix geopolitics and corruption for mutual benefit. Gangsters help monitor and intimidate immigrant communities for the regime in Beijing, sometimes as leaders of cultural associations that are key players in China’s political influence operations and long-distance repression, Western security officials say. ProPublica has learned that suspected underworld figures in Italy and Spain took part in launching several of the secret Chinese police stations that caused an uproar when their existence became public last year …