A thread: I've spent the past few weeks looking into China's '100 most wanted' corruption suspects, 40 of whom are at large. But I found their Interpol ‘red notices’ - the global wanted posters touted by Beijing - have vanished from view. All of them 2/ scmp.com/news/china/art…
I also discovered that one of the '100 most wanted', Liu Baofeng, was arrested after flying out of Vancouver in mid-2019, at height of Sino-Canada tensions over Meng Wanzhou. Extensive official reports of Liu's arrest, bizarrely, did not mention that he came from Vancouver 3/ 
But his arrest had nothing to do with Interpol, a Red Notice, or Canadian police intervention. Instead, Chinese officers broke him psychologically by visiting his parents and relatives “to preach laws and national policies”, freezing their finances and assets. 4/
The withdrawal of red notices from view and the handling of Liu show how China now seems not to care about frn cooperation in their hunt for fugitives. The process instead relies on hardline intimidation, and basically sidesteps foreign authorities. Read! scmp.com/news/china/art…
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