Court documents filed at the trial of alleged double agent William Majcher reveals that at least 25 Canadian residents were targeted by Chinese police under an anti-corruption program, which doubled as a tool of transnational repression.
Hey, uh… what were these people being charged with again?
Xiao and his firm were found guilty of “illegally absorbing public deposits, breaching trust in the use of entrusted property… [and] illegal use of funds,” a statement from the Shanghai court quoted by AFP said. It also said Tomorrow Holdings was guilty of the “crime of bribery”.
I’m trying to imagine a Western response to Chinese diplomats leaping to defend Sam Bankman-Fried or Jordan Belfort.
Actually, I don’t have to imagine, because Changpeng Zhao literally ran scams in China, fled to the United States, ran scams in the United States under the protection of the US consulate, and finally pissed off enough people that he ended up in a US federal prison. At which point he lobbied the President for a pardon and is right back out scamming people again.
From your comment one can easily infer that you didn’t even click the link.
Brother, I quoted from it.
No, you just copied & pasted.
How is any citizen supposed to follow the laws of two different countries?
Chan says Hong Kongers, some who are Canadian citizens, have faced surveillance, intimidation and pressure directed at themselves and their families by Chinese authorities. He wants to see if the text of the MOU contains oversight mechanisms to limit the reach of China’s security apparatus.
How am I, an American, expected to follow the law that states no littering in Shanghai, or no drinking alcohol in Saudi Arabia?
Citizens have to follow the law of the country they are in, and no government must extend its laws beyond its borders through extraterritorialization.
Yeah, that happens all the time, and far too often in my opinion. The first example I heard of was having sex with people of an age that would be illegal in your country while in another country, typically South East Asia. Everyone is okay with that that law being enforced, and I absolutely get why, but they weren’t so happy when this was applied in other areas.
There are certainly degrees to what is happening here. People who have left your country, gained citizenship elsewhere, and haven’t broken laws where they are being attacked to answer to laws halfway around the world because they used to live there or have family there is on the extreme end.
