{"id":49099,"date":"2022-10-26T18:28:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T16:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=49099"},"modified":"2026-10-26T00:05:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T23:05:34","slug":"the-illegal-police-stations-of-communist-china-in-spain-and-the-silence-of-sanchez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/26\/the-illegal-police-stations-of-communist-china-in-spain-and-the-silence-of-sanchez\/","title":{"rendered":"The illegal police stations of communist China in Spain and the silence of S\u00e1nchez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silence. That is the public response of the Spanish government to a serious scandal that affects Spain's national sovereignty against communist China.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/23\/xi-jinping-vs-giorgia-meloni-4-numbers-that-expose-massive-media-manipulation\/\">Xi Jinping vs Giorgia Meloni: 4 numbers that expose massive media manipulation<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/16\/this-is-how-communist-china-is-whitewashed-by-media-that-label-conservatives-as-far-right\/\">This is how communist China is whitewashed by media that label conservatives as 'far right'<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>Communist China has 54 illegal police centers in 30 countries<\/big><\/p>\n<p>On September 12, <a href=\"https:\/\/safeguarddefenders.com\/en\/blog\/230000-policing-expands\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Madrid-based NGO Safeguard Defenders published an investigation<\/a> in which he uncovered that <strong>the communist dictatorship of China has 54 illegal police centers in 30 countries on 5 continents<\/strong>. These police centers act as police stations in China's Fuzhou and Qingtian counties. The investigation revealed that <strong>230,000 Chinese citizens have been \"persuaded\" to return to their country by these illegal police centers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52456398723_9acdf58b38_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">An illegal Chinese police station in Fuzhou in Barcelona (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2022\/09\/14\/china-opens-unofficial-police-stations-britain-hunt-people-return\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Telegraph.co.uk<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p><big>Communist China's Methods of Forcing Its Citizens to Return<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The methods of persuasion of that dictatorship include the denial of the right to education to the children who are relatives of the fugitives and other limitations to the members of their families. <strong>Methods to force such fugitives to return include punishing their relatives for \"guilt by association\"<\/strong>, even when there is no suspicion that they have committed any crime, <strong>a practice similar to what the communist dictatorship of North Korea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Safeguard Defenders pointed out that <strong>on September 2 of this year the Chinese communist dictatorship approved a law<\/strong>, which will come into force on December 1, in which it establishes total extraterritoriality over Chinese and foreigners worldwide to certain crimes (fraud, telecommunications fraud, online scams, etc.), meaning that <strong>China considers itself entitled to apprehend anyone accused of such crimes anywhere in the world.<\/strong> Instead of use international mechanisms of police or judicial cooperation, which provide control mechanisms to protect the rights of the detainee, including the right to a fair trial and the presumption of innocence, <strong>the Chinese communist dictatorship uses the aforementioned methods of coercion to force them to return to that country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52456138119_8d8847eb9e_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">One of the two Chinese illegal police stations in Fuzhou in Barcelona (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2022\/09\/14\/china-opens-unofficial-police-stations-britain-hunt-people-return\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Telegraph.co.uk<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p><big>Between April 2021 and July 2022, 230,000 Chinese have returned by these methods<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The NGO has reported that <strong>between April 2021 and July 2022<\/strong>, and despite the restrictions of the pandemic, a staggering number of <strong>230,000 Chinese citizens were forced to return to face possible criminal charges in China through these methods<\/strong>, which often include threats and harassment, both physically and online, both of fugitives in their countries of residence and of their family members residing in the People's Republic of China . Obviously, <strong>that dictatorship could also use those same mechanisms to persecute political dissidents abroad<\/strong>. In this way, not only the citizens of that country would be subjected to severe deprivation of fundamental rights: <strong>this program of illegal police stations implies turning communist China into a global dictatorship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><big>The illegal police stations of communist China in Spain<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/safeguarddefenders.com\/sites\/default\/files\/pdf\/110%20Overseas%20%283%29.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Safeguard Defenders research<\/a> has identified illegal police stations from communist China in four Spanish cities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Fuzhou County Police<\/strong> has two illegal centers in <strong>Madrid<\/strong>, another two in <strong>Barcelona<\/strong> and one in <strong>Valencia<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Qingtian County Police<\/strong> has an illegal center in <strong>Madrid<\/strong>, one in <strong>Barcelona<\/strong>, one in <strong>Santiago de Compostela<\/strong> and one in <strong>Valencia<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Significantly, <strong>Spain is the country with the most illegal police stations in communist China (nine in total)<\/strong>. Italy, which is the second country with the most illegal Chinese police stations, has four.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52455345932_966e826e00_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">Spain is the country with the most illegal Chinese police stations: there are nine in total (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2022\/09\/14\/china-opens-unofficial-police-stations-britain-hunt-people-return\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Telegraph.co.uk<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p><big>The silence of the majority of the Spanish media in the face of this scandal<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, <strong>this investigation has been ignored by many Spanish media outlets<\/strong>, including local media in the aforementioned cities. The existence of illegal police stations of a foreign dictatorship in those localities, apparently, is not a matter of interest to those media. One might wonder <strong>how many of the media outlets that have silenced this investigation have advertising contracts with Chinese companies<\/strong> (remember that the Chinese Communist Party has committees in all the large multinationals in the country, which exercise political control over them).<\/p>\n<p><big>S\u00e1nchez's silence and his cordial relations with China and the PCCh<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Even more surprising is the <strong>absolute silence of the Spanish government of Pedro S\u00e1nchez in the face of this scandal<\/strong>. In the month and a half that has elapsed since the publication of that investigation, no member of the coalition government, formed by the socialists of the PSOE and the communists of United We Can, has made <strong>no statement in this regard<\/strong>. One of the few Spanish media that has addressed this issue, the newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcorreo.com\/internacional\/asia\/operaciones-secretas-policia-20221009175227-ntrc.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">El Correo<\/a>, has indicated that the Spanish Ministry of the Interior <em>\"recognizes that it is investigating the matter, although it does not clarify whether it was previously aware of it, and uses these inquiries so as not to give details in this regard\".<\/em> <strong>Did the National Intelligence Center (CNI) not know of the existence of illegal Chinese police stations in Spain?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52192354709_39e6271903_b.jpg\" style=\"width:661px; height:auto; border:2px solid #252525;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">The PSOE website reporting in 2011 the meeting held between several leaders of that party and representatives of the Chinese Communist Party (Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/PKvHq\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PSOE<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p>The permissiveness of the Pedro S\u00e1nchez government with the illegal activities of the Chinese police in Spain has a possible political explanation: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/01\/12\/algunos-datos-sobre-la-influencia-del-partido-comunista-de-china-en-el-gobierno-de-espana\/\">the communist dictatorship of China maintains cordial relations with the PSOE and with the Spanish communists of the PCE<\/a> (integrated into United We Can, Pedro S\u00e1nchez's government partner) for years, even before his arrival in government. <a href=\"http:\/\/spanish.xinhuanet.com\/iberoamerica\/2015-07\/01\/c_134370150.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In July 2015, the head of the Communication Department of the Committee The PCCh Central met with Pedro S\u00e1nchez in Madrid<\/a>, when the current Prime Minister was in the opposition. The official Chinese agency Xinhua <a href=\"http:\/\/spanish.xinhuanet.com\/iberoamerica\/2015-07\/01\/c_134370150.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pointed out<\/a> <em >\"<strong>S\u00e1nchez said that the PSOE attaches great importance to its relations with the PCCh [Chinese Communist Party]<\/strong>, and it is precisely that during the PSOE government, Spain and China established the ties of the comprehensive strategic association \".<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52456279429_aee516b791_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">The Chinese dictator Xi Jinping received by the president of the Spanish government Pedro S\u00e1nchez at the Palacio de La Moncloa in November 2018 (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamoncloa.gob.es\/multimedia\/galeriasfotograficas\/presidente\/paginas\/2018\/281118presi_china.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">La Moncloa<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p>En noviembre de 2018, s\u00f3lo unos meses despu\u00e9s de la llegada del dirigente socialista al poder, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamoncloa.gob.es\/presidente\/intervenciones\/paginas\/2018\/prsp281120182.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pedro S\u00e1nchez recibi\u00f3 en Madrid al dictador comunista chino Xi Jinping<\/a>, en una visita de alto nivel en el que <strong>el presidente del gobierno espa\u00f1ol no dijo absolutamente nada sobre las violaciones de derechos humanos en China<\/strong>. S\u00e1nchez calific\u00f3 el viaje a Espa\u00f1a el dictador chino como una \"visita hist\u00f3rica\" y como \"una excelente oportunidad para estrechar los lazos comerciales y de inversi\u00f3n entre Espa\u00f1a y China\". <strong>Los elogios del socialista espa\u00f1ol a esa dictadura comunista llegaron al extremo de decir que <em>\"China es un pa\u00eds prioritario<\/strong>, no solamente desde el punto de vista comercial, empresarial, sino tambi\u00e9n, desde el punto de vista afectivo y cultural\"<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth wondering if the installation of these illegal police stations in Spain by Communist China was discussed on that visit, and if Pedro S\u00e1nchez gave his permission for it. In any case, <strong>the silence of the Spanish government in the face of this Chinese program is alarming<\/strong> and reveals something worse than mere sympathy between a government that calls itself democratic and a totalitarian regime.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Main photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamoncloa.gob.es\/multimedia\/galeriasfotograficas\/presidente\/paginas\/2018\/281118presi_china.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">La Moncloa<\/a>. Meeting between Xi Jinping and the President of the Government of Spain, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, during a visit by the Chinese dictator to Madrid in 2018.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silence. 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