China has gone beyond its territory to harass and intimidate its citizens settled abroad, Geo-politik reported.
The country uses surveillance and data collected on individuals for intimidation, blackmail and coercion of its opponents, based in foreign countries.
According to Geo-politik, people who have received such threats are the ones who have spoken about the repression by the Chinese Government against minorities such as Uyghurs, Tibetans, political dissidents, etc.
A case has come to notice in the Netherlands where a non-Chinese, Dutch journalist in a leading newspaper ‘De Volkskrant’, has been intimidated by unknown Chinese agents.
The journalist, Marije Vlaskamp, was the correspondent of the newspaper in Beijing from 2001 to 2019. She has been regularly writing critical articles on sensitive subjects and has supported Chinese dissidents in the Netherlands even after returning from China, according to Geo-politik.
The journalist was subjected to Chinese intimidation and was implicated in a conspiracy to bomb (October 2022) the Chinese Embassy in The Hague along with one Chinese dissident, Wang Jingyu whom she supports.