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Chapter IV. The Desperation — Kidnapped Children at Helsinki Airport
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Kidnapped Children at Helsinki Airport — The Human Trafficking Network China and Finland are Desperate to Hide.
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"Reporters get legal threats... [and] honeypots sent after them, and blackmail efforts, and fake sources using false identities," says Ronan Farrow, an investigative reporter for The New Yorker.
"There is a whole underworld... of illicit tactics used to shut down reporters."
When I majored in journalism in college, where I took courses on reporting and libel and ethics, never did I ever imagine that government agencies would work together to try to murder me one day.
Or that they would invest exorbitant resources and public tax dollars to spy on me from one country to the next, for months on end.
At this point, I have had enough unsolicited experiences with Chinese operatives — who come in a variety of ethnicities, ages and sizes — to easily spot one in the wild.
It was not only alarming, but also insightful, that that operative on the train and his comrades:
1. Followed me from Thailand to South Korea after SUPO's failed assassination.
2. Days later, they stalked me for hours at Seoul Station where — after I managed to purchase a newly cancelled ticket on one of the busiest travel days of the year, wherein all of the outgoing trains were fully booked — I had to wait nearly 8 hours to board my night train.
3. They actively tried to hack into my phone on the train, mere moments after I started posting content related to my Finland investigation on social media.
Their actions further illuminated the extent to which Finland and Chinese operatives are working together to try to silence my voice as a journalist; and the honest, integrous beating of my heart.
But why was China involved in any of this?
I had no beef with China. I had never reported on corruption in China. And though I had visited China once in the past as a tourist, it was a long, long time ago.
So why, pray tell, does China have a beef with me?
Why has China invested exorbitant resources to have its operatives track, follow and surveil me, an American journalist, from one country to the next, for months on end?
Well, as it turns out, all of these covert and homicidal roads lead back to HELL.
To that rental car parking garage with no police patrols... no security guards... a hidden rear exit... and no inner cameras allowed.
