Posted on 01/14/2019 5:40:15 PM PST by vannrox
A Canadian man originally given 15 years in prison for drug smuggling was sentenced to death in China on Monday after a one-day retrial, the surprising verdict coming amid growing tensions between Beijing and Ottawa after the arrest of a top Chinese tech executive last month. Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was given the death penalty in Dalian Intermediate People’s Court in the northeast province of Liaoning after an appeals court last month agreed with prosecutors
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So, you want to play games with Huawei, and the CFO. Fine, Watch what China does.
The "deep state" has no friggin idea what it is playing with. You want a war...Neocons? How does smallpox sound?
I'm tell youse guys, America better get a handle on it's "deep state" before things get really hot. And make no mistake, it was the American deep state that got Huawei CFO arrested. Just to styme Trump in his trade negotiations with China.
The deep state doesn't care about consequences. They cannot see that far. All they see is their socialist utopia.
Giving the Huawei official a life term in a Supermax prison would be a reasonable response. While it would be nice to put her to death, we are, unfortunately, constrained by the lack of a death penalty for economic crimes.
Relax, Prime Minister glued-on eyebrows will get him out.
This person either was,or was not,carrying drugs.Given recent tensions between China and Canada it's certainly possible that the Chinese set him/her up.
China does not consider itself to be bound by Western rules/norms/customs.
China hasn’t forgotten about the Opium Dens.
I zero problems with drug dealers getting the official final whack.
Assuming you meant to say that you have zero problems...I agree 100%.But not knowing the circumstances of this *particular* case it occurs to me,as well as the author of the piece,that this could be a case of the Chinese trying to push Canada around in connection with things that have happened in recent weeks/months.
The Chinese are known to play rough.
An interesting feature of Chinese courts is the fact that appeals can lead to heavier punishments, as this Canadian drug user found to his cost.
On a personal note, at some point in time, you might personally become party to these international disputes. Given the way the Chinese tend to use gweilos/laowais as hostages, you will want to monitor the situation carefully. That’s not even factoring in the raw xenophobia that has, in some situations, led to foreigners getting lynched, with officials getting in on the action:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangzhou_massacre_(760)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou_massacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion#Massacre_of_missionaries_and_Chinese_Christians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuxian_(Qing_dynasty)
[China hasn’t forgotten about the Opium Dens.]
China itself has a long history of experience with opium and other narcotic drugs. Opium was introduced there in the 7th century. 2nd century China saw experimentation with poisonous substances* like the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold-Food_Powder. You might consider it a distant relative of shrooms, peyote, toad-licking and glue-sniffing.
* A significant number of Han Dynasty emperors died in their early 20’s. My earlier guess was that poisoning or assassination by dynastic rivals was involved. Another possibility? Excessive use of Cold Food Powder.
Will they send a bill for the bullet to his family?
Sometimes I fat finger or have dyslexic moments on that tiny phone screen.
“This person either was,or was not,carrying drugs.Given recent tensions between China and Canada it’s certainly possible that the Chinese set him/her up.”
The WOD is the easiest way to set someone up and throw away the key. An easily palmable package turns anyone into a “drug dealer” at the will of the state. The same with some digital files that can supposedly prove you sent child porn if they are “found” on your drive in some lab thousands of miles away. Anyone at any time can now be taken away and the people will cheer.
China is not the only place that knows this...
They gave him a shorter one.
Singapore is actually pretty good at figuring out who the real bad guys are - they don't use their laws as indiscriminately as the US does. Their prosecutors don't get rewarded for high volumes.
Body Parts coming to market..........soon.
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