Chinese ‘Diplomat’ With a Knife Threatens a Chinese Activist in the Netherlands

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands, Dec. 9, 2019. (Reuters/Eva Plevier)

As the recent media exposure of the Chinese regime setting up illegal police stations outside China shocked the world, Wang Jingyu, a 20-year-old Chinese rights activist, told The Epoch Times that the CCP has committed more outrageous acts than that.

Wang, who currently lives in the Netherlands, spoke to The Epoch Times on Oct. 30, and recounted the horrible experience he had in a CCP black jail in Dubai. He then described being intimidated by a suspected Chinese diplomat who broke into his home, wielding a knife.

In 2019, Wang expressed his support for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests on the internet. In that same year, his parents decided to move him to another country for his protection. He was only 17 at the time.

On June 9 of this year, five days after Wang organized an event at the Chinese Embassy in The Hague commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, a Chinese man arrived at his apartment building, speaking to Wang from downstairs with a knife in his hand.

“He said he was going to to kill me. Because I saw him carrying a weapon, I immediately called the police. Soon after, the Dutch police took me and my girlfriend directly to a hotel, saying that we couldn’t stay in our apartment any more, as it was too dangerous,” Wang said.

The man fled when he realized that the police were on their way to the building.

The next day, while Wang was describing the incident to officers at the police station, the man called Wang and threatened him again. When Wang told the caller that he was at the police station, the man asked to speak to the police.

“Basically, he said he was not afraid of the police and that they had no authority to arrest him. He said the police couldn’t do anything to him,” Wang told The Epoch Times. “Then he sent me an image of his passport and a selfie video footage, which he also sent to the Dutch police. The Dutch government thought this was too unbelievable, and the police said that he should be classified as a terrorist.”

Wang believes the intruder has ties to the Chinese embassy in The Hague because he noticed that the man’s passport was different from an ordinary Chinese citizen’s passport in that the cover was bright red, and the Passport ID started with the letter “D.”

According to public information, Chinese passports are divided into diplomatic passports, public service passports, and ordinary passports.

The cover of a diplomatic passport is bright red, while that of an ordinary passport is dark red. The ID format of a diplomatic passport is “DE” followed by seven numbers, and it is the only passport ID that starts with the letter D.

The Dutch police told Wang that after the knife-wielder escaped, he immediately went to Germany, then Luxembourg, then Belgium, and went back to Germany. He is most likely still in Germany. The Dutch police have handed the case over to the country’s General Intelligence and Security Service.

CCP Set Up Police Stations in 21 Countries

According to recent reports from Chinese state media, the Fuzhou Police Department has set up 30 “overseas service stations” in 21 countries, including one in New York, three in Toronto, three in England, two in France, four in Spain, and one in the Netherlands.

However, a spokesman for the Dutch Foreign Ministry said that there are two such police stations in the Netherlands, and that the authorities have initiated investigations into the stations, as unofficial police stations are illegal entities.

Safeguard Defenders, a human rights NGO based in Spain, released a report in September revealing that the CCP has set up police “service stations” in “dozens of countries on five continents” and is suspected of extraterritorial jurisdiction and cross-border law enforcement.

The CCP uses these police stations to coerce dissidents into returning to China. The methods they use include threatening, harassing, detaining or imprisoning family members in China, as well as approaching their targets via internet communications or sending agents abroad to directly threaten and harass them.

Apparently, Wang is one of the expatriate targets of the CCP.

Chinese Consulate Sets Up Black Prison in Dubai

In 2021, during the Sino-Indian conflict, Wang challenged the CCP for falsifying the details published in the Chinese media. Subsequently, a wanted notice for Wang appeared on China Central TV (CCTV) and the People’s Daily, two mouthpieces of the CCP. Chinese authorities ordered him to return to China within three days. Wang believes that he will be arrested if he does so.

In April 2021, Wang flew from Turkey to the United States and had a transit stop in Dubai.

“As soon as I arrived in Dubai, I was arrested by the Dubai police, who said I would be deported to China. The Chinese consulate in Dubai and the Chinese embassy in Abu Dhabi came to see me three times and asked me to sign a document written in Arabic only. The officials refused to explain to me what it was about at all, but claimed that I could go back to China after I signed, and that nothing would happen to me if I were to return to China as long as I wrote a ‘guarantee statement.’” Wang said.

Chinese police often demand dissidents and those arrested for their religious beliefs to write a so-called “guarantee statement” as a pre-requisite for them to regain freedom. In the statement, the signee declares that he is remorseful for his speech, conduct, or spiritual beliefs, and guarantees never to do “it” again.

Wang was wise enough to not believe their claim.

“They even put a wanted notice on CCTV, and their Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that they would arrest me. So I definitely don’t believe it,” he said.

Wang called his girlfriend Wu Huan. Wu immediately flew to Dubai to help Wang get a lawyer, and at the same time posted a Twitter message asking for help on May 21. The incident caught the attention of the U.S. State Department, which told the Associated Press that the United States called on UAE to release Wang immediately, as it was a human rights case.

“The United Arab Emirates let me go because the United States spoke out. On May 27, they let me go without saying a word. It was actually a deportation, as the local authorities expelled me and sent me back to Turkey,” Wang said.

Wang Jingyu on the flight to Turkey on May 27. (Courtesy of Wang Jingyu)

However, Wu was unaware that Wang had been released.

Two hours later, Dubai police and the Chinese consulate went to Wu’s hotel and detained her. Three days later, officials from the Chinese Consulate in Dubai drove a commercial vehicle to the police station and took Wu to a villa.

“The villa is a black prison of the CCP, where the CCP officials tortured her for nearly a week, attempting to force her to sign a false accusation against me and to call some relevant organizations such as the U.S. government officials who were concerned about my case, including the leaders of some NGOs, asking them not to help me. She suffered torture for a whole week,” Wang said.

In the end, ChinaAid, an international non-profit Christian human rights organization, and the U.S. State Department, sent people to Dubai and successfully rescued Wu Huan.

Multiple Countries Investigate CCP Illegal Police Stations

The CCP’s practice of extraterritorial law enforcement has caused alarm in many countries.

On Oct. 27, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) announced that it was investigating reports of criminal activity related to so-called foreign “police” stations in Canada, as reported by Rocky Mountain Outlook.

On the same day, the Irish Times reported that the Irish Foreign Office had ordered the closure of a Chinese police station in central Dublin. A day later, on the eve of German Chancellor Scholz’s upcoming visit to China, German authorities also said they were investigating whether the CCP had an illegal offshore police station in Frankfurt.

On Oct. 26, in response to questions from the foreign media, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin claimed that the CCP’s “foreign police stations” are service stations for overseas Chinese, whose main purpose is to assist Chinese nationals with services such as renewing their Chinese driver’s licenses and medical examinations.

Wang refuted the explanation, saying is is a load of nonsense.

“I have solid evidence that [at one time] the CCP’s overseas police station in Rotterdam used its official phone number to call me 20 to 30 times a day, threatening me to turn myself in and return to China, and then sent me threatening text messages using the telegram app registered with their official number,” he said.

A Gangster Group Disguised as a Nation

Wang said the CCP’s overseas police stations are intended to suppress rights activists and dissidents, who also jeopardize national security in Western countries.

“They want to extend the autocratic dictatorship to the whole world,” Wang said. “Their fundamental purpose is to silence all those who pursue democracy and freedom and oppose the CCP.”

He pointed out that if these offshore police stations were not exposed, in the future, the CCP may well target those non-Chinese who oppose the communist regime.

Wang said that the CCP’s practice of setting up police stations in other countries completely disregards international laws and standards and violates the sovereignty of those countries.

“The threatening, harassment, and even kidnapping of dissidents in other countries’ territories fully demonstrates that the CCP is an organized criminal gang in the form of a nation that is active all over the world. In this regard, all democratic countries must be fully aware of how much influence and damage the CCP’s actions have brought to the international system, democracy, and rule of law. We must take resolute action to fight against it,” Wang said.