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US and China Working Together on Law Enforcement

posted by CoolHand on Thursday April 16 2015, @07:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the one-world-tyranny dept.

davester666 submitted:

The US Department of Homeland Security released a fact sheet of a first time meeting between State Councilor and Minister of Public Security of the People's Republic of China (PRC) Guo Shengkun and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson "to discuss homeland security and law enforcement cooperation." Areas where they pledged to work together included cyberterrorism, repatriation and fugitive issues, intellectual property, and counter-terrorism.

When reporting on this, The Guardian focused mostly on the fugitive and repatriation issues:

Chinese public security authorities said the US supported Chinese programmes dubbed "Sky Net" and "Operation Fox Hunt", which are meant to coordinate a campaign to track down suspected corrupt officials who have fled overseas and to recover their assets. The Chinese government has given the US a priority list of Chinese officials suspected of corruption and who are believed to have fled there, state media has reported.

One might speculate that this program could be easily abused to add political refugees to the list of "corrupt" officials as well. This seems it could be a slippery slope for the US from an ideological standpoint.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Thursday April 16 2015, @09:51PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday April 16 2015, @09:51PM (#171748) Journal

    Meanwhile Chinese firms have been counterfeiting everything from shoes to routers without so much as a second look from the Chinese authorities.

    The United States did the same exact thing to British intellectual property [foreignpolicy.com] at the beginning. America has achieved a lot under its own steam, but let's eschew the fiction of immaculate conception.

    But, yeah, cooperating with China on law enforcement is a bit like cooperating with Stalin on business incentives.

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday April 16 2015, @11:52PM

    by frojack (1554) on Thursday April 16 2015, @11:52PM (#171787) Journal

    Your link is so full of crap-java it is unreadable.
    Never the less, the situation is different, as we have treaties with China about this stuff, where as we never did have those with the British.

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    • (Score: 1) by kadal on Friday April 17 2015, @01:05AM

      by kadal (4731) on Friday April 17 2015, @01:05AM (#171816)

      It was pretty readable with NoScript on Pale Moon.

    • (Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Friday April 17 2015, @01:37AM

      by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Friday April 17 2015, @01:37AM (#171830)

      Worked fine with Firefox with Noscript. I didn't have to allow any scripts either.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 17 2015, @01:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 17 2015, @01:16AM (#171823)

    Could you let those guys know their website isn't working?