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2018-12-06 China-Japan-Koreas

Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou’s arrest may prompt China to retaliate, 'take hostages,' expert says

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Posted by 3dc 2018-12-06 13:10|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
File under: Commies

#1 U.S. President Donald Trump should rein in the hostile activities of some Americans who may imperil Sino-U.S. relations

Otherwise, every American will get a bad score in the Chicom Social Credit database. No hot & sour soup for you!

Posted by SteveS 2018-12-06 14:56|| 2018-12-06 14:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah, they're going to take hostages too. They already do that, in fact. Many Western business executives have been kidnapped and their companies forced to pay ransom. One such case was a scrap metal dealer. During the transit of the metal, the price tanked and the Chinese company couldn't pay. So they took the man hostage. He escaped from the hotel he was being held in and hailed a taxi to Shanghai airport. The police TRACKED HIM TO THE AIRPORT, arrested him, and brought him back. So this kind of thing is small potatoes for them.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-12-06 14:59|| 2018-12-06 14:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Take the CEO of Facebook, Google, and Twitter. Please.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-12-06 15:33|| 2018-12-06 15:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Send George Soros to Beijing immediately.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-12-06 15:59|| 2018-12-06 15:59|| Front Page Top

#5 While they're at it, also send Hillary and Obama to Beijing.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-12-06 16:00|| 2018-12-06 16:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Might have something to do with this;

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46352336

Chinese officials have defended their decision to bar three US citizens from leaving the country, saying they are suspected of "economic crimes". Victor and Cynthia Liu, children of a fugitive businessman, and their mother, Sandra Han, have been detained since June, the New York Times reported. The US Department of State confirmed to the BBC that they are in "close contact" with the adult Liu children. Their father, Liu Changming, is wanted in a $1.4bn (£1bn) fraud case in China.

FYI - Victor, 19, was born in the U.S. The ChiComms are holding a US citizen hostage and then wonder why we grabbed Meng??

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2018-12-06 16:55|| 2018-12-06 16:55|| Front Page Top

#7 An aspect of the trade war that you don't see much commentary on - Trump is very effectively highlighting who the Chinese are and how they do business.

Posted by Iblis 2018-12-06 16:57|| 2018-12-06 16:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Ethnic Chinese are always Chinese, no matter where they're born.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-12-06 17:00|| 2018-12-06 17:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Re #6:
Fascinating bit a background info, Billy. Thanks.

Posted by SteveS 2018-12-06 17:13|| 2018-12-06 17:13|| Front Page Top

#10 Dr. Herb, many of the ones born in China have been, thanks to Mao and successors preaching the Gospel of Marx for the past seventy years, modern secular Germans with darker skin and epicanthic folds. Oh, and an ideographic script distantly descended from hanzi.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-12-06 17:13|| 2018-12-06 17:13|| Front Page Top

#11 Good ahead and then we'll raise tarrifs even more, hold Xi and the entire chicom party personally responsible and then ban all kinds of exports like steel, shoes, etc.
and soon we'll see no more hostages

Posted by Solomon Ulavish4305 2018-12-06 20:41|| 2018-12-06 20:41|| Front Page Top

#12 While they're at it, also send Hillary and Obama to Beijing.

they probably both have very nice homes there already

Posted by 746 2018-12-06 21:02|| 2018-12-06 21:02|| Front Page Top

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