Same reason the US have agents operating both overtly and covertly all around the world, including China and Russia. You imagine the US or British embassies don't keep a very close eye on the activities of US or UK Nationals living in China or Russia? I can guarantee you they do as well as acting as bases for espionage and surveillance activities against the host nation. You imagine that US and UK agencies don't also clandestinely rent or buy other - unofficial - properties throughout the world to conduct operations inimical to the host nation?
To us they're a threat, or at least potential rivals. To them we're (and when I say 'we' I'm speaking of the UK as basically the US lackey in Europe it's become) are a very real and present danger.
Ha ha - and despite the frothings of the media over this one these aren't actual 'police' with official powers in the host nation or uniforms or anything like that that the headlines might have you imagine - although their actions are probably officially sanctioned at a high level within China.
Honestly this **** ain't the stuff we should be worried about, if we know where and how these 'service stations' are run their activities can be monitored and surveilled to build up a broader picture of Chinese operations... it's the stuff they're doing covertly that is probably more of a threat - the stuff we don't know about.
Honestly China's best weapon (and ours against them) and our biggest vulnerability is all our nations' utter dependence upon the digital world and the *******s of data that flow through it.
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