Re:If you travel to China, be aware of an exit ban
by seanmcdirmid on Thursday August 10, 2023 @12:02AM
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The arrest by Canada (not the USA) was justified on Canada's part because of their extradition treaty with us and the USA had a warrant for her arrest. Due process in Canada decided that the Americans didn't have a case for extradition, which was also their right. One can argue that America should have seen the flaws in the extradition case that Canadian due process did, but the case never went to trial in the USA so we will never know if due process in the USA would have come to a similar conclusion as well.
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Re:If you travel to China, be aware of an exit ban
by woooooo on Thursday August 10, 2023 @12:07AM
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I'm sure the Chinese have a bunch of legalese bullshit for why they locked up those innocent Canadians, but we can look through it and see the real score. Right?
Re:If you travel to China, be aware of an exit ban
by seanmcdirmid on Thursday August 10, 2023 @12:48AM
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The courts aren’t independent from the party/official branch (china technically has one branch of government, the judicial and legislative branches just rubber stamp whatever the official branch wants), so you can’t really trust them one way or the other. There is no nice Mexican stand off balance of power that you’d get from a checks and balances government design.