Security experts and human rights advocates are sounding the alarm about the renewal of a co-operation agreement between the RCMP and China’s police force as troubling details surface at a foreign interference trial.
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.
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.
How is any citizen supposed to follow the laws of two different countries?
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.