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US warns Americans AGAINST traveling to China because of the risk if being wrongfully detained and arbitrary exit bans
AP ^ | 03 Jul 2023

Posted on 07/03/2023 2:29:23 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

The U.S. recommended Americans reconsider traveling to China because of arbitrary law enforcement and exit bans and the risk of wrongful detentions.

No specific cases were cited, but the advisory came after a 78-year-old U.S. citizen was sentenced to life in prison on spying charges in May.

It also followed the passage last week of a sweeping Foreign Relations Law that threatens countermeasures against those seen as harming China´s interests.

China also recently passed a broadly written counterespionage law that has sent a chill through the foreign business community, with offices being raided, as well as a law to sanction foreign critics.

'The People´s Republic of China (PRC) government arbitrarily enforces local laws, including issuing exit bans on U.S. citizens and citizens of other countries, without fair and transparent process under the law,' the U.S. advisory said.

'U.S. citizens traveling or residing in the PRC may be detained without access to U.S. consular services or information about their alleged crime,' it warned.

The advisory also said that Chinese authorities 'appear to have broad discretion to deem a wide range of documents, data, statistics, or materials as state secrets and to detain and prosecute foreign nationals for alleged espionage.'

It listed a wide range of potential offenses from taking part in demonstrations to sending electronic messages critical of Chinese policies or even simply conducting research into areas deemed sensitive.

Exit bans could be used to compel individuals to participate in Chinese government investigations, pressure family members to return from abroad, resolve civil disputes in favor of Chinese citizens and 'gain bargaining leverage over foreign governments,' the advisory said.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 07/03/2023 2:29:23 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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I’ll stick to my Russian itinerary and skip China this time.


2 posted on 07/03/2023 2:40:45 PM PDT by BipolarBob (The battery on my quantum computer is dying. I'm not sure where to find a replacement.)
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Yemen for me.


3 posted on 07/03/2023 2:41:21 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I see the “Great Uniter” is doing a bang up job.


4 posted on 07/03/2023 2:41:29 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: MinorityRepublican

They still get financial aid from us. They’re allowed to buy a real estate and farmland all over the country. They’re allowed to open up businesses all over the country. They can have spies in Chinese police all over the country. They put their kids in our schools to steal our technology and research. they are undermining the United States all across the globe. Their military wouldn’t exist without US military research and development.

The outright on the current president of the United States.

And we still treat them like friends


5 posted on 07/03/2023 2:47:22 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: dfwgator

Right after a tour of Afghanistan and then North Korea.


6 posted on 07/03/2023 2:52:25 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: MinorityRepublican

I have a visa on my ASSport unfulfilled in 2009...
Company paid with 4 years to CCP.
Then I was fired, wouldn’t put up with the corporate asses that wanted to delve in my Designer world...
f them


7 posted on 07/03/2023 2:52:54 PM PDT by Muhammy
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If you go to China do something useful and scare the confucians out of their slumber. Proselytize, evangelize, and let them all know there is a better life out there.

That's why the PLA has to have "Gershtapo" stations in major US cities: New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Minneapolistan, and of course, one outlier: Omaha, presumably connected to the CCP takeover of the abbatoir industry.

Once they've seen Omaha, how ya gonna keep them on the CCP Farm LOFL!!!

F the PLA, keep them surly, play on their paranoia, make them afraid.

8 posted on 07/03/2023 2:55:19 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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Sort of like what happened to the innocent people locked up by the democrats when they visited Washington, DC on January 6, 2021.


9 posted on 07/03/2023 2:59:07 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Sun Tzu: "An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes." )
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So what's being planned for Cuba that’s going to piss off the CCP so much?

Or maybe nothing is planned. When little old average citizen (me) starts questioning, it becomes rather clear that the rest of the world starts to question what the Biden administration is doing. Biden has been corrupted by the CCP. Concurrently, Biden has been completely weak. Then Biden doesn't even remember that the CCP has bought him off. There is no predictability from the President of the world’s greatest superpower. That’s not good for peace. We already definitely know that Biden doesn't give a damn about peace or the lives of our servicemen. Neither does the vast majority of Congress or the Pentagon.

10 posted on 07/03/2023 3:04:58 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself.)
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“The U.S. recommended Americans reconsider traveling to China because of arbitrary law enforcement and exit bans and the risk of wrongful detentions.”

Outsourcing corporate douchebags hit hardest.


11 posted on 07/03/2023 3:05:35 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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It is recommended that conservative Americans now reconsider traveling to the district of columbia because of arbitrary law enforcement and exit bans and the risk of wrongful detentions.”
Like you said:
Sort of like what happened to the innocent people locked up by the democrats when they visited Washington, DC on January 6, 2021.


12 posted on 07/03/2023 3:23:17 PM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count)
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Yemen for me.

Yep. You've not lived until you've tried their national khat and their national drink, Yemenade.

13 posted on 07/03/2023 3:28:35 PM PDT by Migraine
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To: MinorityRepublican

Dementia Joe is doing great.

It will not be long before a trip to the grocery is not advised.

Welcome to libtard world.


14 posted on 07/03/2023 3:38:43 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Chicoms made a law saying it’s illegal to criticize them and it applies to everyone in the world, not just their citizens.

Which means they might arrest you if you go there for something you wrote or said about them.


15 posted on 07/03/2023 3:50:58 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Please keep Janet Yellen.


16 posted on 07/03/2023 4:33:11 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

I would stay away from Russia, China, and all middle eastern countries


17 posted on 07/03/2023 5:24:32 PM PDT by roving (👌⚓)
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你的文件没有按顺序排列。现在就下车吧。
Nǐ de wénjiàn méiyǒu àn shùnxù páiliè. Xiànzài jiù xià chē ba.😡😡

English:
Your papers are not in order. Step out of the car now.


18 posted on 07/03/2023 6:54:48 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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Driver. Driver, this doesn’t look like the way to the Great Wall. This looks like the road to the Laogai Prison.

https://laogairesearch.org/laogai-system/


19 posted on 07/03/2023 6:59:06 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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Plus, they eat friggin bats over there.


20 posted on 07/03/2023 7:03:39 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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