China issued an unusual warning to its citizens travelling to the US to beware of “entrapment” by American police, in a fresh show of continuing bilateral tensions despite a recent step-up in engagement.
“Chinese nationals who travel to the US should be more vigilant, and beware of falling into US snares and arrest-entrapment,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing said on Monday in a security advisory posted on the official WeChat account run by its Department of Consular Affairs.
While Beijing has regularly reminded its citizens of gun and racial violence in the US, it is rare to explicitly point out the danger of arbitrary detention. China itself has frequently been charged of such detentions of its own people. It’s also faced accusations of running extraterritorial police operations to go after Chinese individuals – something the government denies.
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