"Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from 
persecution."

This right—the right to flee tyranny and live without fear—is the last hope for many fleeing despotism. And it is exactly this hope that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping is determined to destroy.

In today’s China, tyranny doesn’t stop at the border. It travels. It hunts. It follows dissidents into exile, into foreign parliaments, into classrooms, and into bedrooms. The CCP, under the absolute rule of Xi Jinping, is executing the most sophisticated campaign of transnational repression in the modern world. And the rest of the world? Too often, they look the other way—willing to sell out basic human rights in exchange for cheap manufacturing and a fantasy of stability.

The Emperor’s Long Arm: Persecuting Those Who Flee

Xi Jinping’s dictatorship is not just one of surveillance, censorship, and arbitrary imprisonment. It is imperial in ambition—with global reach and utter contempt for international law. People who flee China seeking asylum for crimes as simple as "filming a protest" or "criticizing officials online" are stalked, harassed, and—far too often—forcibly dragged back into the jaws of dictatorship.

Case: Dong Guangping – Kidnapped from Vietnam

Dong Guangping, a former CCP police officer turned human rights activist, fled to Vietnam in search of safety. He was a registered refugee under the protection of the United Nations—a status that should have shielded him from such abduction. But in 2022, he disappeared—vanished. Vietnamese authorities, under Chinese pressure, abducted and handed him over in secret. His family heard nothing for months. Only later did the CCP confirm that Dong Guangping was in custody.
This was not deportation. It was political kidnapping—repackaged as diplomacy.

Case: Liu Xinglian & Yang Chong – Trapped in limbo

In 2018, two Chinese dissidents fled to Taiwan after being persecuted for their political beliefs. But due to Taiwan’s complex relationship with the CCP, they were denied entry and forced to live for over 120 days in a transit zone of Taoyuan airport. No country dared to anger Beijing by granting them asylum.
They were not criminals. They were thinkers. And for that, they were left in bureaucratic purgatory, paying the price for Beijing’s geopolitical blackmail.

"Voluntary Returns" – The Lie That Masks the CCP Terror

Xi Jinping’s regime doesn’t always need to kidnap dissidents directly. It uses fear as a weapon.

In its SkyNet and Fox Hunt operations—ostensibly anti-corruption efforts—the CCP has pressured over 10,000 people abroad to "voluntarily return" to China. But what does "voluntary" mean when your parents are detained back home? When your pension is frozen? When your child is denied school registration unless you surrender?

This isn’t justice. This is state-sponsored terror with Chinese characteristics.

And it’s not happening in secret. The CCP proudly reports its success in coercing people back to face political persecution. These are systematic assaults on the very principle of asylum enshrined in Article 14—carried out on an industrial scale—while the international community barely musters a whisper of protest.

Xi Jinping: Global Architect of Authoritarian Reach

Xi Jinping is not content with ruling China—he wants to dominate all Chinese people, everywhere, and silence anyone who challenges the CCP’s authority, no matter where they are on Earth.

Whether it is:

1. Sending agents to intimidate students in Australian universities;
2. Opening illegal "overseas police stations" in cities like New York, Madrid, and Amsterdam;
3. Infiltrating Chinese community groups abroad and turning them into arms of surveillance;
4. Or threatening the families of exiles still living in China...

Xi Jinping has built a transnational regime of fear, where borders mean nothing, and international law is a speed bump, not a boundary.

The Global Cowardice That Enables Tyranny

What allows Xi Jinping’s regime to get away with these violations of Article 14 is not just its ruthlessness—but the cowardice of democratic governments who let it happen. Governments that prioritize trade over human rights. Universities that muzzle students to protect partnerships. Tech companies that help build the surveillance tools of repression.

Let’s be clear: Xi Jinping is not just a dictator at home. He is a tyrant without borders.
He is the enemy of refugees. The enemy of asylum. The enemy of liberty.

And every government that fails to stand up to his cross-border crimes is complicit in the destruction of the right to seek refuge.

Conclusion: Article 14 Was Written for Moments Like This

The right to asylum exists because the world once said "never again". Because the world swore it would never stand by while regimes hunted people down for their ideas, their words, their beliefs.

Xi Jinping is testing that promise. He is betting that the world will stay silent, will stay greedy, will stay afraid.

But silence is surrender.

Article 14 must not be reduced to a ceremonial phrase. It must be a line we defend with every ounce of moral strength. And defending it means confronting Xi Jinping directly, naming his regime for what it is:

A global predator. A machine of persecution. A dictatorship whose reach must be broken before asylum becomes a myth.

If we abandon the victims of Xi Jinping’s repression, we don’t just betray them—we betray the future of human freedom itself.