China vows to retaliate if US continues case against police officers accused of targeting dissidents

[Eugene]

Source: South China Morning Post

China vows to retaliate if US continues case against police officers accused of targeting dissidents in America

• Foreign ministry says US Justice Department is ‘weaponising and politicising the law’ by charging 44 suspects, including 40 police officers
• The accused, none of whom is thought to live in the US, are alleged to have taken part in a campaign of ‘transnational repression’

Vanessa Cai in Shanghai
Published: 9:00pm, 27 Apr, 2023

Beijing has vowed to retaliate if the US Justice Department continues to press charges against Chinese police officers accused of harassing and intimidating dissidents in America.

Mao Ning, a spokeswoman for the Chinese foreign ministry, said on Thursday that the US was “countering basic facts, professional conduct, and the spirit of the rule of law, and is weaponising and politicising the law”.

“We urge the US to immediately stop taking the wrong approach, and if the US is bent on going its own way, China will resolutely take countermeasures,” she said.

-snip-

Read more: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3218628/china-vows-retaliate-if-us-continues-case-against-police-officers-accused-targeting-dissidents

Non-paywalled link: https://news.yahoo.com/finance/news/china-vows-retaliate-us-continues-093000526.html

[Chainfire]

1. As far as I am concerned, the Chinese can just cry about it.

They want to violate our sovereignty with impunity? To hell with them. You wonder how they would feel about us going after all of the people, in China, who flood our market with bootlegged products.