My understanding is to assist Chinese citizens working abroad (and those eligible for Chinese citizenship) who couldn’t attend embassies and consulates they set up pop centres in areas with high Chinese diaspora populations, in restaurants, corner stores etc. There’s some connection between their civilian police and their immigration services that handle passports etc. Hence the conspiracy tin foil stuff.
But it’s basically just a country making things easier for its population even those overseas especially with covid19 etc.
There’s some connection between their civilian police and their immigration services that handle passports etc.
That’s pretty common in socialist countries, in Poland for example all passport stuff were handled by militia before 1989, and afaik those militia passport departments employed mostly civilians.
My understanding is to assist Chinese citizens working abroad (and those eligible for Chinese citizenship) who couldn’t attend embassies and consulates they set up pop centres in areas with high Chinese diaspora populations, in restaurants, corner stores etc. There’s some connection between their civilian police and their immigration services that handle passports etc. Hence the conspiracy tin foil stuff.
But it’s basically just a country making things easier for its population even those overseas especially with covid19 etc.
That’s pretty common in socialist countries, in Poland for example all passport stuff were handled by militia before 1989, and afaik those militia passport departments employed mostly civilians.
Yeah it’s something like that. They aren’t the same people but they have the same ministry, share offices etc.
Also it’s their majority unarmed civilian police, not their miltarized police who are kind of like carabinieri/gendarmarie etc