Adm. Henderschedt stressed, however, that the PRC’s egregious activities in other countries extend well beyond its Operation Fox Hunt, which began in 2014 to covertly catch, torture and repatriate Chinese “criminals.”
“The PRC’s current extraterritoriality, however, is not limited to Operation Fox Hunt,” he suggested. “The PRC has significantly amplified its efforts to punish people well outside its own borders.”
In 2021, the country passed an Anti-Foreign Sanctions law that actually punishes citizens that comply with export controls or foreign sanctions, according to the National Law Review, the rear admiral explained.
“[It] prohibits the compliance with foreign sanctions and export controls that impact the PRC adversely,” the J2 said. “[It] is the PRC’s ‘own legal regime of extraterritoriality jurisdiction,’ largely levied to deter sanctions against the PRC companies and authorities.”
China’s most stunning behavior attacking the rules-based order is its “use of economic coercion to shape political decisions that Beijing finds uncomfortable,” Adm. Henderschedt continued. “In the fall of 2021, after Lithuania announced that it would open a Taiwan representative office, the PRC reacted with great ire for the temerity to use the word ‘Taiwan,’ instead of the somewhat more acceptable ‘Taipei.’”
Surprisingly, leaders in Beijing removed Lithuania from its online customs forms as punishment, a move that eliminated the possibility of imports or exports without the need for formalized and illegal sanctions against Lithuanians.
“As the Center for Strategic and International Studies identified, following Beijing's inability to shape Vilnius through this customs attack, Beijing next threatened sanctions on third country firms that did business with Lithuania upstarts, causing Europeans to ask Lithuania to ‘seek a constructive solution,” he noted.
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