Retired Chinese official Li Chuanliang was recuperating from cancer on a Korean resort island when he got an urgent call: Don’t return to China, a friend warned. You’re now a fugitive.

Days later, a stranger snapped a photo of Li in a cafe. Terrified South Korea would send him back, Li fled, flew to the U.S. on a tourist visa and applied for asylum. But even there — in New York, in California, deep in the Texas desert — the Chinese government continued to hunt him down with the help of surveillance technology.

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    China is doing this all over the world btw. Reports from “Chinese Police” coming in from the UK and EU countries. They usually pressure people into compliance by threatening sanctions against family members still living in the PRC.

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    I’m sure even if he flees to the depths of the Mariannas trench. There’d be a flock camera waiting for him.