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A photo from Prato, Italy, shows several men seated at a desk in front of a poster that reads “Fuzhou Police Overseas Service Station” and “Prato, Italia.” There are similar photos from Dublin, from Budapest – or from Benin in Africa. “110 Overseas” – 110 is the emergency number for the police in China – sounds like a practical initiative at first: Chinese abroad can, for example, extend their driver’s licenses in internationally outsourced centers or take care of other bureaucratic matters without having to travel to their home country of China .