[Newsweek] Why Is China Policing My City?

The country is honing a parallel policing system to track down exiles.

The second he stepped off the plane at Madrid’s Barajas airport in 2019, a Chinese citizen — identified as Liu by state-run media — breathed a sigh of relief. Wanted since February in his home county of Qingtian, in southeastern China, for an environmental misdemeanor, Liu had…