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My online friends may wish to peruse this article about the Hong Kong police targeting overseas activists. China, especially under Chairman Xi, is not content with being authoritarian domestically; it attempts to menace critics abroad, and to export surveillance technology to other authoritarian governments. We should be vigilant against actual attacks or efforts to abduct Chinese activists in the United States or elsewhere, and about the Chinese establishing police offices outside their own country.

I do not seek war with China, or a greater degree of friction than circumstances compel, but in the long run, if we are to preserve our own liberties, we must resist efforts by China, Russia, or other foreign powers to establish an international order favorable to their interests and their efforts to make freedom of speech an international crime. “When someone shows you who they are, believe them.”