{"id":39145,"date":"2021-11-23T02:18:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T17:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/22\/to-fight-global-taiwan-must-be-included-in-interpol"},"modified":"2021-11-23T02:18:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T17:18:42","slug":"to-fight-global-crime-taiwan-must-be-included-in-interpol-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39145","title":{"rendered":"To fight global crime, Taiwan must be included in Interpol | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Huang Chia-lu <\/strong>responds to the news that a Chinese official<strong> <\/strong>is seeking election to Interpol\u2019s executive committee, and urges the international community to support Taiwan\u2019s participation <\/p>\n<p>You rightly point out the concerns of human rights activists and international politicians that China could misuse Interpol\u2019s capabilities to track down overseas dissidents if Hu Binchen is elected as an executive committee member (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/15\/chinese-official-seeks-interpol-role-sparking-fears-for-dissidents\">Chinese official seeks Interpol role, sparking fears for dissidents, 15 November<\/a>). One should also note that Taiwan is not included in Interpol, meaning there is a missing part in the global fight against international crime and cybercrime.<\/p>\n<p>As cybercrime transcends borders, transnational cooperation is key to bringing international crime rings to justice. Taiwan\u2019s police authorities have a hi-tech crime investigation unit and professional cybercrime investigators. Taiwan\u2019s expertise will benefit global efforts to build a&nbsp;safer cyberspace.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/22\/to-fight-global-taiwan-must-be-included-in-interpol\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huang Chia-lu responds to the news that a Chinese official is seeking election to Interpol\u2019s executive committee, and urges the international community to support Taiwan\u2019s participation You rightly point out the concerns of human rights activists and i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,987,351,2421,74,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-cybercrime","category-internet","category-interpol","category-taiwan","category-technology","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39146,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39145\/revisions\/39146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}