Posted on 08/13/2018 11:02:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
China’s global kidnapping campaign has gone on for years. It may now be reaching inside U.S. borders.
Before he disappeared from his luxury apartment at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong on Jan. 27, 2017, Xiao Jianhua, a Chinese-Canadian billionaire, favored female bodyguards. Why, exactly, was unclear: Perhaps he simply liked being surrounded by women; perhaps he trusted them more than men.
Whatever the reason, those guards weren’t much help when a group of mysterious men showed up at his apartment that January day and took him away. According to anonymous sources who viewed the hotel’s internal video feed and later spoke to the New York Times, Xiao, who may have been sedated, was rolled through the Four Seasons lobby in a wheelchair, a sheet covering his head. He was then reportedly loaded onto a boat and ferried to the Chinese mainland.
In what has become a familiar script for such disappearances, an initial police report filed by a family member was quickly withdrawn, and Xiao later issued a statement denying that he had been kidnapped. More than one year later, he remains in mainland China, and though he has not yet been charged with any crime, his businesses, under government direction, are expected to sell almost $24 billion in investments, which will reportedly be used to repay state banks.
Such stories are not unique. In October 2015, Chinese government operatives kidnapped Gui Minhai, a Hong Kong-based book publisher and bookstore owner, from his apartment in Thailand. Months later, Gui, a Swedish citizen, resurfaced in China, declaring on state television that he had turned himself in to face decade-old drunk driving charges. Gui’s colleague, Lee Bo, a dual Chinese-British national, also appears to have been kidnapped in Hong Kong in December 2015 by Chinese security forces and brought back
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Wow, and Thomas Friedman admires this form of govt.
Socialism/communism is so evil!
Maybe they are just going Galt.
extremely evil
Some seem to be upset. How is this much different than the Mossad killing terrs in their homes?
An Enemy of the State is not something you want to be, no matter which ‘state’ you line in.
Not our problem and the more their businesses and leaders fail and disappear, the better for the world’s non-communist countries and businesses. We should not be doing any business with them anyway.
No independent judiciary.
No appeals process.
How can you do business without the rule of law?
The law appears to be whatever the Chinese government says it is at the moment.
Maybe I am wrong.
Is there published Chinese law, so people can know if they have broken it?
Ha....maybe they could deliver Soros to the Russians....and split the proceeds with Putin.
this could very well be the future of the USA if the DS cabal isn’t stopped...
Hmmm...... looks like he borrowed more gold than he could swim with
Don’t know exactly what Tom Friedman thinks about China, but based upon other things he’s said/written, he has self-declared as somewhat clueless.
A Chinese family here in Houston area...husband, wife, 2 children murdered in their home...no one ever found the killers nor the motive. No murder weapon found, valuables still in the home, quiet family with no known enemies...in the U.S. that is.
https://thetruecrimefiles.com/sun-family-murder/
And now we know why so many Chinese businessmen are buying US real estate and having their wives drop anchor babies here.
To a Chinese businessman, his most valuable asset would be US residency.
the ChiCom state has always run everything there and the puppets allowed to appear like actual capitalism has always been a fraud.
Time to switch business to India
I could be wrong, but I think that killing terrorists is different than abducting/killing CEOs of legitimate companies /s
Good connection...
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