China's concern for the lives of their espionage agents is no more than the cost required to train their replacements. This is the nature of totalitarianism/collectivism.
Would it be considered "cruel and unusual" if we stood any spies of theirs that we find in front of a herd of Walmart shoppers on Black Friday?
5 posted on 11/29/2008 9:14:32 AM PST by The Duke
(I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)