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> The NYPD actually has 'international offices': I wonder whether the media is going to write hysterical propaganda pieces about this, like they did with chine
by simpletone 3y ago
> The NYPD actually has 'international offices':
I wonder whether the media is going to write hysterical propaganda pieces about this, like they did with chinese 'international offices'.
With the media, it's always accuse others of what you are doing.
- JohnFen 3y agoNot sure what you consider "hysterical propaganda", but this is a thing that has been widely, and critically, covered in the media for decades.
- dylan604 3y agoIsn't a Chinese international office called a consulate? Why would it come across as strange that they would have them?
- michaelmrose 3y agoThey are accused and indeed 2 charged with running essentially outposts for the ccp gestapo to spy on citizens and former citizens living abroad and critics. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-are-chinas-alleged-secret-overseas-police-stations https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-are-chinas-allege... Its not hysteria at all.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> like they did with chinese 'international offices' The NYPD's international offices do not have policing powers. They can't arrest people. They can't search or seize suspects. They're there with the full knowledge and coöperation of their hosts. The Chinese police departments were exercising police powers on foreign soil without the host countries' permission. Night and day.
- Eisenstein 3y agoWhy do you write 'cooperation' with an umlaut?
- kevin_thibedeau 3y agoIn English words it's a diaeresis.
- iamawacko 3y agoProbably a diaeresis, a diacritic which indicates that two vowels aren't to be read as a digraph or diphthong. It's fancy and pretentious, and frequently seen in New Yorker articles.
- erik_seaberg 3y agoI went through a phase of this because it made sense and I didn’t realize that it wasn’t standard English.
- int_19h 3y agoIt is standard English, just somewhat antiquated at this point. Still, you see it quite a bit with "naïve".
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Why do you write 'cooperation' with an umlaut? I grew up speaking French, English and a variant of German and have trouble not reading the double-o as a long vowel. After that autocorrect picked up on it and it doesn't bother me enough to change it.
- simpletone 3y ago[flagged]
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> as a foreigner Sorry, which country am I supposedly foreign to?