Travel advice and advisories for China
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Travel Advice and Advisories from the Government of Canada

Cross posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/31441568

“Exercise a high degree of caution in China due to the risk of arbitrary enforcement of local laws.”

LMAO “arbitrary enforcement of local laws”. This must be a Monty Pyhon skit.

In China, you may also be subject to:

  • severe punishments, even for non-violent acts such as financial crimes. Chinese authorities may also apply the death penalty for crimes deemed serious, including drug offences

“severe punishments, even for non-violent acts such as financial crimes.” They are mad China treats rich people crimes against the poor as crime. As The Internationale says, under capitalism “The law oppresses us and tricks us”.

  • an exit ban, which you may only learn about as you go through customs and immigration controls when trying to leave China. An exit ban may prevent you from leaving the country if you, your family or your employer and/or business associates are involved in any open civil or criminal investigations, including business disputes

“Oh, no, our white collar criminals can’t flee from their wrongdoings!”

This is some high class commedy.

  • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
    27·
    4 days ago

    Isn’t Canada the one that detained some Chinese company executive for a long time over fuck all? Or am I remembering some other thing?

    • Water Bowl Slime@lemmygrad.ml
      21·
      4 days ago

      Yeah Canada arrested the daughter of Huawei’s founder, Meng Wanzhou, for nearly three years. It was for bullshit reasons and on the US’s behalf because as we all know, Canadians are just American henchmen.

      • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
        14·
        4 days ago

        Oh right, thanks, that’s probably what I was thinking of. Some gall Canada has to act like China will do scary detaining after that. If Canada was honest, they’d be putting up an advisory recommending people not to come to their own country.

  • knfrmity@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    32·
    4 days ago

    “Exercise a high degree of caution in China Canada due to the risk of arbitrary enforcement of local laws.”

    Indigenous Canadians, environmental activists, Meng Wanzhou, and many others would like to have a word.

    severe punishments, even for non-violent acts such as financial crimes

    I love how we define violence as something involving bodily harm in an encounter between individual people. Therefore denying a person housing or food isn’t violent, because the perpetrator of the harm has been abstracted and the harm doesn’t look like cuts, bruises, and broken bones. The richest Canadians are committing violent acts each and every day by hiding basic human rights behind pay walls, and it’s not only not illegal, it’s how the system is supposed to work.

    • trashxeos@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      18·
      4 days ago

      The richest Canadians are committing violent acts each and every day by hiding basic human rights behind pay walls

      Louder for the liberals in the walls!

  • SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml
    27·
    2 days ago

    I can’t believe us Canadians aren’t allowed to deal drugs in China. God forbid we make an honest living.

  • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
    27·
    4 days ago

    White supremacist colonizers are not used to having to obey the laws of non-white countries. They believe the laws of the “lesser races” don’t apply to them.

  • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
    115·
    4 days ago

    An exit ban may prevent you from leaving the country if you, your family or your employer and/or business associates are involved in any open civil or criminal investigations,

    So it’s not just “don’t go if you’re a criminal.” Also, if a family member is being investigated, not even charged, you may be held hostage in the country.

    That’s not comedy anymore.

    • Cochise@lemmy.eco.brOPEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      Justice systems hold passports from people being investigated or associated with them all the time, in all countries. This is basic rule of law, preventing people to flee from justice.