China has been exerting intense pressure to silence dissidents in the United States, including harassing their children with sexually suggestive threats. The campaign targets critics of the Communist Party, with a covert network linked to China's security services engaging in online and offline intimidation tactics.
New Tactic in China’s Information War: Harassing a Critic’s Child in the U.S. https://t.co/NEsTYNTVd0 A covert campaign to target a writer critical of the country’s Communist Party has extended to sexually suggestive threats against his 16-year-old daughter.
A prominent Chinese writer in exile has regularly criticized China and Xi Jinping. A covert network linked to China’s security services “has barraged...his teenage daughter with sexually suggestive and threatening posts on popular social media platforms." https://t.co/ZrqRev1Ae7
A Chinese intimidation campaign targeting a critic of the country's Communist Party has adopted a new tactic: barraging his 16-year-old daughter with sexually suggestive threats on social media. https://t.co/RZkXPl7EzJ
New tactic in China’s information war: Harassing a critic’s child in the US – The New York Times: ‘barraged not just Mr. Deng [Yuwen] but also his teenage daughter with sexually suggestive and threatening posts’ https://t.co/qQ9rZwmngI
China has been “exerting ‘intense, almost Mafia-style pressure’ to try to silence dissidents now living legally in the United States, including activities online and off, like posting fliers near their homes.” https://t.co/8bJO28NMgK