Lai Changxing to be finally deported
- Thread starter solarz
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Poor guy must've run out of all of his money.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
BBC article that is free to access.
I find it quite ridiculous that anyone can have a law that would forbid the extradition of fugitives to a country where they could face execution. Impose your own values on others much?
If China really wanted to make a mockery of this stupid law, they could have suggested that in future every country with a death penalty send over the very worst of their death row murderers, rapists and drug dealers to Canada instead of executing them if Canada wants to make itself the new penal colony of the world.
I find it quite ridiculous that anyone can have a law that would forbid the extradition of fugitives to a country where they could face execution. Impose your own values on others much?
If China really wanted to make a mockery of this stupid law, they could have suggested that in future every country with a death penalty send over the very worst of their death row murderers, rapists and drug dealers to Canada instead of executing them if Canada wants to make itself the new penal colony of the world.
You can actually just do a google search of the title, and usually the first hit will reveal the entire article, even if it's normally hidden.
This works for most of the locked WSJ articles too.
BBC article that is free to access.
I find it quite ridiculous that anyone can have a law that would forbid the extradition of fugitives to a country where they could face execution. Impose your own values on others much?
If China really wanted to make a mockery of this stupid law, they could have suggested that in future every country with a death penalty send over the very worst of their death row murderers, rapists and drug dealers to Canada instead of executing them if Canada wants to make itself the new penal colony of the world.
Too bad the bureaucrats at Beijing won't think of something as brilliant as this. I think Xi might surprise us though. He seems like the type.
Anyone know what is gonna happen to Lai once he returns? I hope he could fess out more corrupt officials who evaded the law all this time. I can bet that many of them are more worried about Lai's return than Lai himself.
solarz
Brigadier
LOL, ironically, the article seems to imply that Xi *could* be one of those people losing sleep.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
They are probably just more pragmatic. Sending death row murderers, rapists and drug dealers to Canada would tie their liberals in all sorts of knots, and be rather satisfying to watch, but would be bad for China's image and send entirely the wrong message to would-be murderers, rapists and drug dealers in China.
It is ironic that Lai's lawyers are trying to suggest that him 'fessing up criminal activities of higher level officials might somehow make him more likely to be executed when in reality, his co-operation in helping to put other corrupt officials behind bars might be the condition for sparing him from receiving the death penalty in the first place.
Guess you got that from the High level officials part?
Xi seems pretty clean to me and otherwise he wouldn't even be considered in the first place.
solarz
Brigadier
Aargghh, it was from the previous FT link: