nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20221102-215629-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 221102s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20221102-215629-0 doi eng 342 23 Oidtmann, Raphael Author aut Foreign Agents, Diplomatic Skirmishes and the Law on Diplomatic and Consular Relations - Extraterritorial Chinese Police Forces on European Soil Oidtmann, Raphael Verfassungsblog 2022-11-02 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In September 2022, the Madrid-based NGO ‘Safeguard Defenders’ published a report entitled ‘110 Overseas – Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild’, in which it documented the existence of at least 54 extraterritorial and undeclared Chinese police stations in more than 30 countries, many of them European Union Member States, such as Germany, Ireland, or the Netherlands. These police facilities, operated under the guise of ‘service centres’ supposedly providing diplomatic and consular services such as extending driving licences for Chinese nationals, have hence been located in cities such as Dublin, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and Frankfurt. CC BY-SA 4.0 China German foreign policy International Law Police Stations Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/chinese-police-stations/ raw object