I recently found out that Ireland has a permanent CCP police force in Dublin, which advertise itself as a helping hand for Chinese tourists and to help Garda with Chinese Criminals. Which first thing I think crossed a line as we do not allow other countrys to exert their laws in our country why can CCP enforce their laws on Chinese nationals? Once they come to Ireland they should be under our Laws and protection.

But their actual function is to harras Chinese nationals who seek human rights in China from the outside and to keep a grip over Chinese nationals who live abroad.

This sort of thing happens to in Irish colleges with Chinese students with the Confucius Institute based in UCD, where their families will be threatened with jail if they join human right groups or speaks against the CCP or Xi Jinping.

Their are other country around the world in the same position, but my question is how did we allow this level of infiltrate our country?

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/china-has-a-lot-of-spies-in-ireland-activists-claim-1.4097005

Let’s see if the mods remove this 😂.

Edit:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/09/14/china-opens-unofficial-police-stations-britain-hunt-people-return/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/report-china-unofficial-police-stations-225148709.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en/article/jgxdv7/chinese-police-are-video-calling-citizens-abroad-with-threats-not-to-criticize-beijing

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  3. While the existence of this type of group in Ireland is surprising, the Irish government allowing it and the incoming “meh” from our Reddit community is not. We are not exactly Lithuania when it comes to standing up to regional bullies.

  4. I like way people are more concerned about OP linking a gript article that whistleblowers claiming they are being silenced in Ireland by an authoritarian foreign regime.

  5. Are the police officers in the embassy? A lot of embassies have police officers based there to act as a liaison with the local police force.

    For example we have Gardai based in London, Madrid, The Hague, Washington DC, Bogota and Paris.

    https://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/PR20000099

    I know that there are Police officers from their respective countries based in the Polish and Romanian embassies in Dublin because of the large amount of their citizens residing here. So it would not be unusual for the Chinese embassy to have a Chinese police liaison.

    In every case above they have no authority to administer laws from their own country just to act as a liaison. For example the guard in Paris can’t arrest someone for breaching our [public order act](https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1994/act/2/enacted/en/print.html#:~:text=in%20public%20place.-,4.,other%20person%20in%20his%20vicinity.) On the streets of Paris.

  6. The Chinese government occasionally leans on its citizens to do some spying for them, with the credible implication that their families in China will suffer if they refuse. This is the new extra-territoriality of the 21st century, and I think we’ll see a lot more of it.

    But it’s going too far to say that party enforcers roam the streets of Dublin. They have no reason to do that.

  7. >This sort of thing happens to Chinese colleges with Chinese students with the Confucius Institute based in UCD

    The Confucius Institute is a branch of the CCP used as a tool for foreign espionage. I’m not sure why anyone would be surprised. Only days ago there was news that in the UK they’re looking to replace Mandarin teachers provided by the Confucius Institute with teachers from Taiwan due to a concern around espionage, and the University of Helsinki shut down their Confucius Institute over similar espionage concerns and censorship.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Confucius_Institutes

    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/taiwan-chinese-teaching-confucius-f9tkx5bkj

    https://yle.fi/news/3-12500430

  8. Not really surprised? China is fucking awful for stuff like this.

    Nice to see the usual tankies on here, jumping at any moment to defend their “glorious” CCP.

  10. Crazy how these are even allowed/accepted. There’s around 30 – 40 of these “unofficial police stations” across Europe, with one in London for example operating from a Chinese restaurant or cafe. Many universities are closing down the Confucius institutes, disappointing that UCD aren’t even thinking about doing it. And seeing these people in the comments be like “bUt aMeriCa diD wOrsE”, since when does that make what the CCP are doing ok??

  11. They should be ran out of the country. The CCO has no business in Ireland in anything that even half resembles a policing role or position of authority.

  12. Don’t we do the same thing. There are Gardaí pernamently based in the UK, France, Spain, Netherlands etc doing just this.

    AFAIK its common practice for most countries.

  13. What the actual FUCK?! This is insane! Never thought I’d see this shit here!

    I live in Taiwan, so when I saw the title I though I’d made humorous mistake over an unfamiliar acronym… but NOPE!

  15. The CCP like to go where govts and laws are weak against corruption & money laundering. Google Vancouver & CCP. I mean they like to go everywhere to control “their” people, that’s nothing new. This Confucius shit was going on in Australian universities decades ago. They still have representation in society there of course. How it’s allowed is beyond me, (not really it’s all about the $$$$).

  17. Why does anyone do anything about this? Get the garda, get the UN, at least someone that will get these cunts out of Irish land

  18. Chinese students here absolutely have to report back to the CCP with stuff. We were warned about it while I was doing teaching assistant training, and some TA’s who were invited to a teaching stint in a chinese sister college were told they shouldn’t bring any personal devices whatsoever.

  19. This happens in not only Ireland. It’s a big problem. I feel bad for the Chinese people who have to put up with this nonsense.

  20. >we do not allow other countrys to exert their laws in our country

    What part of those articles makes you think China exerts their laws in our country?

  22. They’re over scoping out Chinese lads to bring them back. Same crack in London, and both ‘announced’ around the same time. All the lads on Parnell St are wide to them. They’ll beat them with hurls. (Also… his may not be true)

  24. Honestly, this isn’t that big of a deal. Chinese imperialist activities have serious implications in Africa (military base in Djibouti) as well as in Asia (conflict around the “South China Sea” and the massive oil reserves beneath it claimed by numerous surrounding countries), and perhaps some issues in Eastern Europe.

    But their activity in Ireland is nowhere near as meddlesome as the activities of the Brits or the Yanks here.

    Maybe we can raise some alarms when China colonially occupies 6 counties of our country. Or when they get themselves a de-facto military stop-over base like Shannon Airport.

    Until that time, there’s no reason to start whipping up this completely disproportionate hysteria about Chinese interference in Ireland or whatever.

  25. The CCP also recommended that Chinese be only taught in simplified Mandarin for state exams. Now, people of Taiwanese and HK heritage were being told their writing system was wrong. Fucking FIASCO.

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    Irish state? CCP puppet-state.

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