China’s Hostage Diplomacy Means All Western Expats Are at Risk

Recommendable and a warning! However, the risk for any individual expat is minimal!

Most likely the the demented and senile 78 years old lifetime career politician and longtime habitual liar 46th President of the U.S. and/or his immediate family members are seriously compromised by their business dealings with China. This egregious case of hostage diplomacy supports it.

Also I don't remember that the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau (the son of a prominent former Prime Minister) really opposed this hostage diplomacy as if he or Canada were also beholden to China.

"After nearly three years in Chinese prisons, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor have been released and allowed to return to Canada. But the fact that they were released immediately after Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, reached a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that freed her from her house arrest in Canada illustrates how Kovrig and Spavor’s detention was really never—as Beijing pretended—about them posing a risk to Chinese national security. ...

It always seemed odd that in early December 2018 Chinese authorities suddenly happened to allege that two Canadians were spying on China and swiftly arrested them—just days after Meng (who is also the daughter of Huawei’s founder) had been arrested in Canada on a U.S. warrant. ... the charges against Kovrig and Spavor were flimsy. The Chinese authorities presented no evidence, and international diplomats were barred from their trials. ..."

China’s Hostage Diplomacy Means All Western Expats Are at Risk Beijing’s swift release of two Canadians held on trumped-up charges confirms that Xi Jinping is prepared to stoop to the level of late Libyan dictator Muammar al-Qaddafi and engage in hostage diplomacy.