France shuts down clandestine Chinese 'police stations' operating on its territory

5 days ago by Veserr to c/world

hansolo 59 points 5 days ago

It's so crazy how many countries they've tried this in.

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yogurt 15 points 4 days ago path: 0 24316202 24328693, hotness: undefined, score: 15, children: 0
SaveTheTuaHawk 1 point 5 days ago

The CIA has stations in all those countries.

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Gates9 21 points 5 days ago

They’re called “embassies”

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frongt 11 points 5 days ago

And every country uses their embassy as a spy station. It's not exclusive to the US and the CIA.

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Armok_the_bunny 9 points 4 days ago

China wasn't running an embassy here.

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Gates9 2 points 4 days ago

Mutually assured espionage

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hansolo 10 points 4 days ago

I bet the sky is blue in all those counties, too.

What's your point?

Also, name 7 counties where foreign counties say "hey, look, we only speak our own language in your county. Therefore, to ensure we have none of our people enjoying life to much, we need to set up an entire parallel law enforcement system for our people to certainly not micromanage them, but also not let you do it in your own county."

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CommanderCloon -4 points 4 days ago

Because it's all made up bullshit. Most of these "secret chinese police stations" end up just being grocery stores that were given the ability to renew Chinese people's passports and other administrative shit.

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hansolo 3 points 4 days ago

LOL.

Let me get this right.

The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs is so janky as fuck as to let any Chinese shop owner on Earth:

  1. adjudicate passport renewal applications

And

  1. only do it as a legally recognized foreign law enforcement entity

But it's "just, like, an old couple that also sells Fanta and whatnot."

Is that actually what you're saying? Because there's not a single African nation that would ever even allow that, and they have some loosey-goosey rules.

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FistingEnthusiast 44 points 5 days ago

Good!

Now do the Israeli ones too

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Tollana1234567 4 points 4 days ago

im afriad they infiltrated the governments, businesses, much harder to rout out.

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iThinkDifferentThanU -2 points 5 days ago

oh yeah Donald j.Trump is a racist, rapist and pedophile that needs to sit in prison or hang from a tree preferably the later Sue me trump, ya lil handed orange fuckin pedophile

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iThinkDifferentThanU -3 points 5 days ago

right? luv the name, maybe we need to get noodleshetty how ever that racist Israel guy spells his racist dumb name fuck that guy, fuck Israel, fuck trump, and all these kool aid drinkin racist inbred GOP fucks need to swing from a tree by these new neck warmers treasonous fucks

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subOrange 2 points 5 days ago

“It is their culture and we have to respect them” /s

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