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A comment on China drafts law protecting foreign IP and prohibiting forced tech transfer. Parent comment

Re:China drafts law protecting foreign IP and prohibiting fo... by nikanj on Monday December 24, 2018 @11:34PM (#18755912)
With a population of over a billion, that's a really low number. The EU and the USA together have around 850 million people, and I'd be surprised if they didn't arrest a hundred lawyers within the last two years too.

One person in a thousand is a lawyer = a million lawyers in China. One lawyer in a thousand is a criminal = a thousand lawyer criminals in China.

The scale of the country boggles the mind.

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Re:China drafts law protecting foreign IP and prohibiting fo... by PavlovsCat on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @05:22PM (#18759429)
We know China is a big country. Did you actually assume the issue was the commenter wasn't aware of that? Incredible.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-42743961

> A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer has been detained while walking his child to school, his family says.

> Yu Wensheng, a vocal critic of China's ruling Communist Party, was seized by about a dozen people, including a Swat team, after he left his flat with his son on Friday morning, his wife said.

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> It is not clear where Mr Yu is being held, and local police told the AFP news agency they were not aware of his detention.

> His wife, Xu Yan, told Reuters news agency: "I have not received any legal document about his detention and don't even know what crime he is suspected of committing."

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> Mr Yu, a former commercial lawyer, has worked on many sensitive cases, including defending other human rights lawyers detained by the government.

They're criminals in the eyes of the Chinese government. It's a bit like declaring people murdered by drones enemy combatants because they were murdered by drones -- not good enough.

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