US should ‘cooperate’ with China over Operation Fox Hunt
The United States should “send back” Chinese nationals who have escaped to the country over “corruption,” says a former American intelligence linguist.
Scott Rickard told Press TV in a Monday phone interview that the US should “cooperate” with Beijing over the matter rather than issuing a warning.
The administration of President Barack Obama warned Beijing on Sunday about Chinese agents allegedly engaged in secret operations inside the US to hunt down and repatriate fugitives, some of whom are wanted back home.
Citing unnamed US officials, The New York Times said the mission, dubbed Operation Fox Hunt, is part of Beijing's global manhunt seeking to pressure fugitives, wanted for corruption and other misdeeds, to return to China.
The US State Department issued the warning to the Chinese officials in recent weeks and demanded a halt to the secret activities.
If the situation was the other way round, there would have been a “massive uproar,” Rickard said.
The US would not have “allowed any type of such activities alternatively from the Chinese government.”
Washington should “send back these financial and corrupted individuals to the Chinese government or to put them on trial.”
“Unfortunately, the punishment for corruption in China is death. The penalty is very serious in China, when [such] corruption occurs and these people need to… take the punishment for the crime they committed.”
The warning to Beijing is expected to complicate Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington next month.
China and the United States are at loggerheads over other issues, including cyber security and China's devaluation of its currency.
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