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China Cutting Cooperation With the US on Illegal Immigration Shows It’s Two-Faced

China Cutting Cooperation With the US on Illegal Immigration Shows It’s Two-Faced
A security guard (R) and a police officer (L) secure the area at the entrance to the Zhongnanhai leadership compound in Beijing, China, on May 18, 2020. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images
Peter Dahlin
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The Chinese regime has taken it as a pro forma exercise to yell loudly about how failure to cooperate with it creates “safe havens” for criminals in whatever country refuses to sign an extradition treaty or otherwise fails to cooperate with China in “law enforcement.”

Peter Dahlin
Peter Dahlin
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Peter Dahlin is the founder of the NGO Safeguard Defenders and the co-founder of the Beijing-based Chinese NGO China Action (2007–2016). He is the author of “Trial By Media,” and contributor to “The People’s Republic of the Disappeared.” He lived in Beijing from 2007, until detained and placed in a secret jail in 2016, subsequently deported and banned. Prior to living in China, he worked for the Swedish government with gender equality issues, and now lives in Madrid, Spain.
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