Wang Jingyu, a teenager who says he’s a U.S. permanent resident, and his fiancée are again on the run from the threat of extradition to their homeland, China, in a sign of Beijing’s lengthening reach over perceived dissidents abroad.
Chinese officials had sought Wang Jingyu, a 19-year-old student, over his online comments about deadly border clashes between Chinese and Indian forces last year. He was arrested by plainclothes police in Dubai while transferring for a flight to the U.S. in early April and was held for weeks, in a case that the U.S. Department of State has described as a human rights concern. He said Chinese authorities in Dubai took away his green card.
Terrified, Wang and his fiancee, Wu Huan, 26, flew to the Netherlands, which does not have an extradition treaty with China. They are seeking asylum or at least a temporary stay visa. The case feeds into growing fears of extraterritorial reach on China’s part, especially with concerns that Hong Kong’s national security law, passed last year, could apply to people of any nationality even outside Hong Kong.
In February this year, China announced that it had lost four soldiers months ago in a brutal fight between Chinese and Indian forces in a border dispute in the Karakoram mountains. Wang questioned why the Chinese government had waited so long to announce the death toll and became a target of state media.
He has been unable to reach his parents independently since. The Chongqing police sent him a recording of his father warning him not to take interviews with U.S. media outlets, which the AP has heard.
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