‘We are so divided now’: how China controls thought and speech beyond its borders – podcast

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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The arrest of a Tibetan New York city cop on spying charges plays into the community’s long-held suspicions that the People’s Republic is watching them. By Lauren Hilgers. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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1:25.1	Long Wong, who lived in Long Island with his wife and two-year-old daughter,
1:30.2	was a community liaison officer with the New York Police Department,
1:33.9	where his role was to build relations with the neighborhood in the 111th Pre-Sankton Queens.
1:39.6	He had arrived in the US in 2005, a 17-year-old asylum seeker from a Tibetan enclave in China.
1:47.1	He joined the Marines in 2009 and served one tour in Afghanistan.
1:51.2	And then, in 2019, he showed up at the Tibetan Community Center in Queens.
1:56.9	He wanted to be part of the community, Long Wong told people,
2:01.1	he was there to help Tibetan immigrant youth.
2:03.8	He was also, according to the charges against him, in regular contact with two members of the Chinese consulate.
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