[simpletone]

> The NYPD actually has 'international offices':

I wonder whether the media is going to write hysterical propaganda pieces about this, like they did with chinese 'international offices'.

With the media, it's always accuse others of what you are doing.

[JumpCrisscross]

> like they did with chinese 'international offices'

The NYPD's international offices do not have policing powers. They can't arrest people. They can't search or seize suspects. They're there with the full knowledge and coöperation of their hosts.

The Chinese police departments were exercising police powers on foreign soil without the host countries' permission. Night and day.

[Eisenstein]

Why do you write 'cooperation' with an umlaut?

[iamawacko]

Probably a diaeresis, a diacritic which indicates that two vowels aren't to be read as a digraph or diphthong. It's fancy and pretentious, and frequently seen in New Yorker articles.

[erik_seaberg]

I went through a phase of this because it made sense and I didn’t realize that it wasn’t standard English.

[int_19h]

It is standard English, just somewhat antiquated at this point. Still, you see it quite a bit with "naïve".

[JumpCrisscross]

> Why do you write 'cooperation' with an umlaut?

I grew up speaking French, English and a variant of German and have trouble not reading the double-o as a long vowel. After that autocorrect picked up on it and it doesn't bother me enough to change it.

[kevin_thibedeau]

In English words it's a diaeresis.

[JohnFen]

Not sure what you consider "hysterical propaganda", but this is a thing that has been widely, and critically, covered in the media for decades.

[dylan604]

Isn't a Chinese international office called a consulate? Why would it come across as strange that they would have them?

[michaelmrose]

They are accused and indeed 2 charged with running essentially outposts for the ccp gestapo to spy on citizens and former citizens living abroad and critics.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-are-chinas-allege...

Its not hysteria at all.