'China Targets': New investigation explores how Beijing extends its repression worldwide

'China Targets': New investigation explores how Beijing extends its repression worldwide

China has instrumentalised the UN, Interpol and Western law enforcement to hunt down and intimidate government critics living abroad, according to a new worldwide investigation led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. In a series of reports, the ICIJ sheds new light on China's long-running "transnational repression". One of its lead authors speaks to FRANCE 24 about their findings.

Tibetans, Uighurs, Taiwanese and others declared enemies of China tell how they silence Beijing in Austria. Politicians are also put under pressure

The persecution undertaken by the Xi Jinping regime extends beyond the country’s borders, affecting activists and their families, while Western democracies lack an effective response to this threat

Le Monde and Radio France documented how China had exerted pressure on more than 100 members of the Chinese, Uighur or Tibetan diaspora. These are the Chinese Targets, the title of this vast international survey coordinated by CIJI

Investigative project "China Targets: How China is trying to get hold of its opponents worldwide and silence critics. And why Austria is affected by this.