When Gao Peng landed in Thailand on July 3, he was not expecting to be accused of making bomb threats, to be put on an EU travel blacklist, or to see his mother and 16-year-old sister detained and threatened with deportation back to China.

 

But bomb threats made in his and his mother’s names against airports, luxury hotels and the Chinese embassy in Bangkok derailed the family’s plan to seek asylum in the Netherlands, where Gao Peng’s father moved three years ago. The threats appear to be part of Beijing’s increasingly sophisticated efforts to harass Chinese dissidents living overseas and their families.

 

While parts of the story told by Gao Peng and his father, Gao Zhi, couldn’t be independently confirmed, their predicament echoes accounts by other Chinese dissidents abroad, who believe Chinese authorities are making bomb threats in their names to control their political activities.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/accused-of-bomb-threats-they-say-they-didnt-make-family-of-chinese-dissident-detained-in-thailand/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2023-07-27

 

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13 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

(...) or to see his mother and 16-year-old sister detained and threatened with deportation back to China.

Well, this (blacklisting and deportation) is what will likely happen, thanks to China seeing SE Asia more and more as their 'backyard', and Thailand happy to comply...

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The threats appear to be part of Beijing’s increasingly sophisticated efforts to harass Chinese dissidents living overseas and their families.

Dirty tactics.

8 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Dirty tactics.

I think they can sink even lower!

14 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Dirty tactics.

Next, perhaps the Russian approach!

Just flagrant visa scofflaws.

 

Probably has nothing to do with dissent in China or being a tributary state of China or Chinese police operations in Thailand.

 

Yeah right.