That is certainly not how things are in most Western countries.
This is an extremely bad faith claim. Unless you're claiming the two Michaels detained by China (in retaliation) also got to live a lavish lifestyle in a mansion.
While I suppose its technically distantly parallel to the description in the article, in that there is nothing stopping a private party from asking the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center to add someone to thie No Fly List, there’s actually no established process for such a request and no set of criteria that would make it particularly applicable to a foreign national against whom a local has civil litigation pending, so, substantively, the analogy is badly strained, especially since the No Fly List is not a general exit control.
Also, recourse for denied boarding and denied entry (but not denied exit, because the US, again, doesn’t have exit controls) is available through the DHS TRIP process, which is appealable if a satisfactory result is not received to the appropriate US Court of Appeals.
A court in the USA had issued an arrest warrant for the Huawei CFO.
The USA had to issue a request for Canada to detain her for extradition to the USA due to the arrest warrant.
Violate any charges that the CCP police/judge wishes to place on you, and you can be locked up for a very long time, since China is a dictatorship now. Tortures include
- people staring at you in your cells 24/7
- overstretching limbs
- forced feedings
- sleep depravation
https://ishr.org/torture-methods-in-the-peoples-republic-of-...
When was China not a dictatorship? Isn’t the issue now that it has become something less of a benevolent dictatorship with regard to foreign travelers recently?
The term whataboutism is also not exactly stable when it comes to politics because nobody plays fairly.
Violate the law and you can be held for criminal prosecution.