The Communist Party of China (CPC) announced the launch of the “Tianwang 2021” overseas fugitive hunt, which will focus on fugitives at higher levels and involving larger amounts of money. Foreigners have questioned whether SkyNet’s action is a threat to overseas dissidents and critics in the name of fighting corruption.
On February 24, the International Fugitive Recovery Office of the Central Anti-Corruption Coordination Group of the Communist Party of China announced the launch of the “SkyNet 2021” campaign. The campaign will focus on those who have fled overseas in recent years, who are above the county level, who are involved in large amounts of money, and who have had bad political influence.
However, the Chinese Communist Party‘s “SkyNet” operation has been questioned by the outside world. Zach Dorfman, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, has pointed out that the CCP has been kidnapping and threatening its citizens around the world for years to return to their Home countries. The “Fox Hunt” and “Skynet” operations target business people, former senior government officials and political dissidents.
FBI Director Christopher Wray, a former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has been a member of the FBI’s “Fox Hunt” and “SkyNet” operations. As FBI Director Christopher Wray noted last year, the “Fox Hunt” launched by the Chinese Communist Party in 2014 as a purge of corruption was essentially a way to target Chinese dissidents abroad.
The Chinese Communist Party launched the “Fox Hunt” in 2014, and in 2015 the Communist Party escalated its fugitive hunt with the announcement of the “Sky Net” operation.
On Feb. 4, Freedom House, a leading Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization, released a new report stating that the CCP’s “Fox Hunt” and “Skynet” global anti-corruption campaigns are part of its efforts to The report says the CCP’s global anti-corruption campaign, such as “Fox Hunt” and “SkyNet,” is part of its overall strategy to shape international norms to its benefit.
The report states that the CCP’s anti-corruption campaign employs worrying tactics such as surveillance, threats and intimidation.
In October 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice charged eight individuals with acting as agents of the illegal Chinese Communist government for years to harass, stalk, and coerce an unnamed Chinese national to return to China for trial.
In announcing the criminal charges against the eight individuals, John C. Demers, assistant attorney general for national security at the U.S. Department of Justice, said that the Communist government’s characterization of “Fox Hunt” as an international anti-corruption campaign is not the whole story, and that in many cases, the targets of the tracking are In many cases, the targets are often political opponents, dissidents and critics of the Communist Party’s leaders.
Whether the targets of the hunt are actual criminals or dissidents, Demers said, the operation is a clear violation of the rule of law and international norms.
On June 1 last year, the U.S. Justice Department said former Communist Party official and fugitive Qiao Jianjun had been extradited from Sweden to the United States in Los Angeles to face charges of money laundering and immigration fraud. The Swedish court had refused to extradite Qiao Jianjun, the No. 3 Communist Party “Red Notice” figure, to China, and eventually extradited him to the United States.
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