China is operating more than a dozen policing, liaison, and judicial offices in Canada, according to a report by the human rights organization Safeguard Defenders.
The report, entitled “A Formula for Repression: China’s Global Grid for Community Control,” details 1,247 liaison points worldwide where the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) monitors the Chinese diaspora, gathers intelligence, suppresses dissent, and aids Chinese judicial authorities and law enforcement.
“Far from closing, the evidence shows expansion,” the report says of overseas liaison and policing facilities that were first widely exposed in 2022.
The Spain-based non-governmental organization adds that these police and liaison stations form part of a wider network of Chinese community associations in 91 countries linked to the CCP’s United Front Work Department. The department oversees a network of interconnected Party-affiliated organizations through which the regime extends its influence abroad….