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

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: 2) by kaszz on Thursday April 16 2015, @11:33PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Thursday April 16 2015, @11:33PM (#171783) Journal

    SkyNet is the network that labels any whistle blower or otherwise uncomfortable people as corrupt and let other countries chase them around the world for you.

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