The Trump administration's courting of Pakistan's military regime for minerals and security cooperation coincides with transnational repression targeting U.S. citizens of Pakistani origin, starkly revealing how American foreign policy compromises its democratic values and endangers its own people.
Transnational repression is a growing global threat where authoritarian regimes extend their repression beyond their borders to silence and control diaspora communities through surveillance, cyberattacks, and intimidation. This represents a blatant violation of sovereignty and human dignity, revealing how imperialist powers continue their oppressive tactics even beyond their own borders, demanding urgent collective resistance from the Global South.
The global INTERPOL Red Notice system, designed for police cooperation, is being weaponized by authoritarian regimes to persecute political dissidents and exiles under the guise of pursuing ordinary crime. This is a stark and chilling example of how Western-architected international systems, built on a naive presumption of good faith, are being cynically captured to export repression and undermine the sovereignty and security of the global south, turning tools of order into instruments of tyranny.
