The director of the FBI says Chinese President Xi Jinping is behind a plot to force critics to return to China with agents being sent to threaten families overseas.
Chinese officials have been trying to force people to return to China from the United States under a program of coercion led by President Xi Jinping, the head of the FBI says.The director of the FBI says as well as coercing overseas critics, China is trying to interfere with US efforts to fight coronavirusHe says families of those who refuse to return have been threatened and arrested
He said Mr Xi has spearheaded a program called Fox Hunt, which aims to silence criticism of Beijing's political and human rights policies. "The Chinese Government wants to force them to return to China and China's tactics to accomplish this are shocking."Beijing has denied targeting the US with cyber espionage.Mr Wray related a case in which he said the Chinese Government sent an emissary to the US to visit the family of someone who could not be located.
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