"Official Chinese figures show 12,000 repatriation cases from more than 120 countries as a result of the two main repatriation campaigns. These are often touted by Beijing as a major success. It is not clear exactly how much of this is propaganda and how much is real data. To give a sense of the scale, a few years ago China managed to persuade 230,000 people to return to China in just one year as part of a special campaign in which the threat of collective punishment was also used as a means of persuasion."

So basically Chinese refuges or expats resident have never been safe. Its not something recent .And apperantly the Chinese Gvement isn't respecting the sovereignty of other countries at all. It's a wakeupcall, our territories are "infiltrated and not safe", and now with the upcoming collaboration between Hungary and China, it will only get worse; if we don't change our ways soon.

iirc: then Chinese mafia occasionally works with the CCP, this was hearsay some 20 years ago though, when I came across some several personal experiences. So I'm not sure .

This is the best summary I could come up with:

For at least ten years, the Chinese Communist Party has been abducting its overseas citizens on EU territory and forcibly returning them to China - violating the rule of law and public security in Europe - a new report finds.

Human rights NGO Safeguard Defenders first revealed in 2022 that China operates more than 120 illegal police offices in 53 countries around the world, including around 50 in the EU.

Now, Safeguard Defenders has produced a 165-page report detailing how the Chinese communist regime has also been abducting its own citizens on EU territory before forcing them back to China.

Laura Harth, one of the report's authors, told Euronews that the abductions ae part of "covert police operations" where agents are being sent abroad on specific missions.

The report details Chinese 'repatriation operations' over the past ten years, which have bypassed the traditional legal route recognised by law, i.e. the international extradition procedure.

Mathieu Michel, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, also weighed in on the issue, saying: "China is pushing and sometimes successfully deploying police forces, they are surrounding interior ministries, but this has to be stopped, it has to be banned, it is a hybrid threat, we cannot tolerate it."

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Here is the entire report by Safeguard Defenders

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