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.
(Score: 2) by davester666 on Friday April 17 2015, @03:05AM
The two biggest bullies in the Pacific around get together to set up a protection racket...
(Score: 2) by davester666 on Friday April 17 2015, @03:13AM
Er...
The two biggest bullies in the Pacific get together to set up a protection racket...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Friday April 17 2015, @07:16AM
That is a bit what it is, isn't it? It's so strange that two such enormous countries cannot stand each other but each has the other in a stranglehold. The Chinese need Americans to keep buying their junk, Americans need the Chinese to keep lending them money to buy their junk. Americans could solve that buy ceasing to buy Chinese junk, and the Chinese could solve it by buying their own junk and cutting America off. But they don't. Such is social and political inertia.
Washington DC delenda est.