Mark Swidan was caught selling ~64 kilograms of crystal meth and ~366 grams of other kinds of drugs in China. China's death penalty starts at a mere 50 grams of drug trade.
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Why do some of these people (especially those from the West, sorry to be direct) believe that they still have some kind of extraterritoriality rights in the "uncivilized" rest of the world like in the 1900s?
64 KILO's?!
What did you expect, for Chinese diplomats to tell VDL to go f*ck herself? That's not how any of this works.
True. In the end nothing changed as China's FM met with his Russian counterpart later that day. But, telling someone off that's hostile to you may be unprofessional but there are many that would find it satisfying.
[Edit: Removed comment as someone later posted that a smoke bomb was used in Japan.]