The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) attempts to reshape the international system escalated last week when it placed “bounties” of $128,000 on the heads of eight Hong Kong democracy activists. Included in the eight were an Australian citizen, Kevin Yam, and Ted Hui, who has been living in Australia since 2021. The bounties represent a new phase in Beijing’s extraterritorial ambitions. These ambitions seek to fundamentally alter our understanding of sovereignty, challenge the globally accepted notion of citizenship, and strike at the very nature of multicultural countries like Australia.
Alongside the bounties placed on democracy advocates, over recent years China has also set up over 100 overseas “police stations” in 53 countries that are used t
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