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"Escort back to China" sure is a weird way of saying they kidnapped her.
Traditionally, countries will have extradition agreements that facilitate arrest of criminals in flight.
Thanks to break down in relations between China and Western states, it has become increasingly common for Chinese embezzlers and con-artists to flee abroad with cash assets in hopes of evading arrest.
Of course, this works both ways with Australian felony suspects hiding in China to the same effect.
So this becomes an end run for both countries to seek "voluntary" extradition, primarily by threatening potential accomplices and family property in the original country.
And it exists for good reason. You generally don't want your country to become a haven for fraudsters because they'll keep committing fraud in their new country.
Thanks. That’s what I needed to know.
Fraud in China has far worse consequences than fraud in Australia. Even if I were to be arrested, I'd prefer it to happen in Australia where I can get off with a slap on the wrist.
https://nit.com.au/05-02-2024/9636/roebourne-regional-prison-cells-still-without-air-conditioning-in-extreme-heat
Enjoy yourself, I guess.
They're not saying they want to go to prison in Australia. They're saying it would obviously be better than going to prison in freaking China.
I feel like you're a Chinese prison salesman or something.
No, they're just hanging their hat on "China Always Worse".
That's a sane and logical conclusion
Compared to Australia? Yes, going to prison in China would be worse.
I'll take 43C/109F to a forced labor internment camp but you do you.
I would pass on it.
Forced labor in 49C it is then.
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Sounds awful. Enjoy your Australian prison.
And you enjoy your Chinese internment camp, maybe your organs will fetch a nice price for the apparatchik.
Or maybe westerners will look and point drunkenly at your plasticized, dissected body for entertainment.
The Chinese of Atlanta Georgia?
The one I saw was in Las Vegas but every single body was Chinese.
The reality is I'd rather sit in a Aussie prison in 46/115 heat than in a Chinese prison at a nice balmy 25/77.
Do you think the Chinese prison system is a better place than the Australian prison system?
I'm sorry if Chinese people make you feel so uncomfortable that you'd rather broil than be near them
I have no issue with Asian people. It's the prison system that's the issue, but you know that and just want to cry racist because claiming the Chinese prison system is preferable is laughable at best, nice try tankie.
The Chinese prison system. Whereas the Australian prison system that kills people with heat stroke isn't a problem, because...
Of course. Its doing all the progressive-y policies that big liberal states like California rolled back under the Reagan Era. Rehabilitation, job training, quality health care, and public reintegration are all policies the US system dismantled a generation ago, because it was seen as "Hugs for Thugs" and "Soft on Crime".
You're going to believe whatever you do tankie, the rest of us know reality.
It helps to base beliefs on sound data and observational evidence.
Shouting "tankie" at your computer monitor is not a sign of strong reality-based reasoning.
I'm the only one that's posted any links to any data or "observational evidence" (tips fedora lol neckbeard). All you've done is vaguely hint at Chinese prisons being preferable to Aussie ones.
I've never really gotten to see one of you in the wild.
Ah, so you're delusional. Cool.
Fascinating.
Ever visted?
Fraudsters aren't being shipped to a regional prison in one of the most remote areas of the country lol
True. White collar crimes getting the white glove treatment isn't unusual in the West, no matter how many lives are ruined.
How much you want to bet that jail has even a single white collar criminal in it exposed to 43 C heat?