{"id":14367,"date":"2016-07-28T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14367"},"modified":"2016-07-27T23:48:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T03:48:36","slug":"the-chinese-police-departmentin-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/the-chinese-police-departmentin-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chinese Police Department\u2026In Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/072816_0345_TheChineseP1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"415\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jim Yardley wrote about the police officers\u00a0from China who keep the peace over in Italy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Italy is a big destination for Chinese tourists, but reports about crime in the European country spread like wildfire on Chinese social media.<\/li>\n<li>Therefore, under a bilateral police cooperation agreement, China dispatched four police officers from its biggest police department to Rome for a couple weeks during the height of tourist season.<\/li>\n<li>The official mandate of the officers was to protect Chinese tourists.<\/li>\n<li>While the officers didn&#8217;t have powers of arrest, they were\u00a0paired with Italian cops who did have that authority.<\/li>\n<li>For the Chinese government this helps bolster its domestic image by allowing it to talk about its\u00a0commitment to safeguarding\u00a0Chinese nationals overseas.<\/li>\n<li>Italy, for its part, earns several hundred million Euros a year from Chinese tourists and wants to see that grow. In addition to the police initiative it is also considering having some signs in Mandarin.<\/li>\n<li>This isn&#8217;t Italy&#8217;s first brush with international law enforcement. Officers from Spain, Poland, and the United States have all done patrols.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/13\/world\/europe\/chinese-police-rome-italy.html?_r=0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/13\/world\/europe\/chinese-police-rome-italy.html?_r=0\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Yardley wrote about the police officers\u00a0from China who keep the peace over in Italy: Italy is a big destination for Chinese tourists, but reports about crime in the European country spread like wildfire on Chinese social media. Therefore, under a bilateral police cooperation agreement, China dispatched four police officers from its biggest police department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/072816_0345_TheChineseP1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14371,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14367\/revisions\/14371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}