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Old Jul 4, 2020 | 8:22 pm
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Eagle2000
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[QUOTE=percysmith;32507466]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


Hi Percy, look at my post #4 , THAT is what concerns me now. Before I had no issues transiting hanging out in HK. I wouldn't want to be detained for some BS "trumped" up charge by CCP. I'm retired and on vacation, I would not want to worry about getting detained.

Note: Meng was not transiting, she is a Canadian citizen and has a Huge house in Vancouver....

Also Canadian Government seems powerless to get the two Micheals Out.
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