This is how China intimidates critics in Germany

Yang Weidong

The Chinese regime critic is being followed and monitored by compatriots.

(Photo: private)

Berlin Yang Weidong knows he is being watched. The regime critic is shadowed above all around events that are important for the Chinese government. As was the case at the Olympic Games last year, when he was suddenly followed and filmed by several compatriots in his home town of Ravensburg, reports Yang. When he tried to confront them, they ran away.

Attempts at intimidation always follow the same pattern. The signal is, explains the 56-year-old in an interview with the Handelsblatt: “We know what you’re doing, we know where you are, so be careful.”

Yang is one of the few dissidents to speak openly about being surveilled by the Chinese state apparatus abroad, but he is far from the only one to be harassed by the long arm of the Communist Party (CP).

Recent reports about Chinese “police stations” in Europe are only the tip of the iceberg.

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