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That's rather naive, considering China has a international police unit, that is stationed in several countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_police_overseas_servic...

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I recently learned that the New York City Police Department has international presence as well. Not sure if it directly compares, but... what a world we live in.

https://www.nycpolicefoundation.org/ourwork/advance/countert...

https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/investigative/intellig...

Pretty sure NYPD has a budget in the billions and covers more landmass and population than some small countries, so there’s also that.

Right, but the vast majority of people living in the USA as citizens have threat models that rightly do not include "Being disappeared by China"

What about the threat model that goes, "Trump threatens to impose 1000% tariffs if Chinese don't immediately turn over copies of all data captured by their AI products from users in the US?"

Compounding the difficulty of the question: half of HN thinks this would be a good idea.

The history of tariff talks seems to indicate that rather than oblige, China would stop all shipments of semiconductors to the US and Trump would back down after a week or two.

TACO...

True. Now imagine a future POTUS who has all of Trump's faults except his endearingly-feckless idiocy.

There's also the Mossad's approach to "you're out of our jurisdiction".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann

Also the CIA's approach

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition

Russia is more known for poisoning people. But of all of them China feels the least threatening if you are not Chinese. If you are Chinese you aren't safe from the Chinese government no matter where you are

And the Saudi Bone Saw Diplomatic Team.

They only arrest chinese citizens.

Man wait until you hear what's in DC (and the surrounding area). In any possible way China is a threat to my health, the US state and corporations based here are a far greater one.

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