Originally Posted by
eagle215
Any Canadians or people from US concerned about transiting in HK and getting detain for no good reason?
I don't want to go into Omni/PR territory here.
But your country executed a warrant on a transiting passenger (Meng Wanzhou) in YVR based on a previously undisclosed extradition request from a third nation (United States)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meng_Wanzhou#Detention.
While I have every confidence the Canadian legal system will treat Meng fairly.
Why cannot the Central People's Government execute arrest warrants in HKG for a breach of its own national law for which (it self-declared) extradition is allowed?
I don't think they will be detaining tourists en masse or without cause.
But after Meng, before you board a flight thru HKG, you have to think whether you have done
anything that may have breached the National Security Law. And that can be quite broad - CNN discussed the possibility here
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/03/a...hnk/index.html
Originally Posted by
HkCaGu
Up until 1500 UTC on 2020-06-30, China did not have any laws against foreigners doing things outside China. Now it does.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Xiao_Zhen
Well that wasn't a foreigner, that was one of their own having committed a crime outside China.
But if they will try their own citizens for murder overseas, why wouldn't they execute a extradition warrant for someone transitting PVG/PEK on behalf of some country for which they have a valid, reciprocating extradition treaty with?
i.e. if Xiao Zhen was a US Citizen, PRC will hand him back over to New Zealand had he transitted a PRC airport.