China travel ban

[Asian_defender]

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Touche sir
To be fair I do know people that have had their lives destroyed by meth. It's really sad to see what it did to them

[roopi]

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Chinese VISA requirement now is quite a hassle and expensive. They also fingerprint you like criminals now.

Since when did they start fingerprinting? A Chinese Visa is actually cheaper now. In the past you would have to pay for each entry. My last visa cost me the same but is now good until my passport expires (in my case 8 more years). In the past I was paying for two visa's per year.

[Xtrema]

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Since when did they start fingerprinting? A Chinese Visa is actually cheaper now. In the past you would have to pay for each entry. My last visa cost me the same but is now good until my passport expires (in my case 8 more years). In the past I was paying for two visa's per year.

I have not gone thru the process but 3rd and 2nd hand info from 2 sources. Both said they are glad like you don't have to renew until passport expires.

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https://bio.visaforchina.org/YVR2_EN...s/283367.shtml

Yup it's true, started Jan 1, 2019 for us.

[max_boost]

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Cause he is a Canadian so Canada would want his punishment to match Canadian law for the crime... and since we don’t have the death penalty it’s a big deal... but also cause Canada is just weak on crime in general. I know someone who served 10 months of a 4 year sentence for coming into the country with about 3kg of blow strapped to her body

haha yes I know someone who served time in Panama for doing something similar.

Oh Canada, enjoy the eye for an eye style of the Chinese.

[eblend]

Singapore is automatic death penalty for drugs in very small amounts, I think if this law applied in every country, very few people would risk it.

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mandatory death penalty for cannabis? lmao

Canada is the greatest country in the world lol

[Manhattan]

Funny how people reacted very differently to the girl who spray painted that ancient wall in Thailand. People in Canada wanted Thailand to lock her up and throw away the key and she was just a dumb young kid. This trafficker knew the consequences and decided to take the risk. It's generally accepted that you abide by the rules of the country you're in no matter how harsh or archaic. If the guy wanted a Canadian level punishment he should've been trafficking at home not in China.

China is waaaaay down on the list of countries you should be worried about visiting because of political tensions unless OP holds some high powered senior executive with a high national security clearance. You take a much bigger risk everyday when you get in your car and drive to work. Life changes pretty quickly and my protocol is whenever there's an opportunity to go somewhere I'm interested in just go.

[lilmira]

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Don't need VISA compared to China. Uber clean. People are courteous and if you want to party, just bullet train your ass to Osaka and it's quite lively.

Chinese VISA requirement now is quite a hassle and expensive. They also fingerprint you like criminals now.

For sure they scan your fingerprint at the airport when you enter. It says voluntary, so your next option is to turn around and go home lol.

[sabad66]

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Singapore is automatic death penalty for drugs in very small amounts, I think if this law applied in every country, very few people would risk it.

Yeah let's just have every country start executing people for non-violent "crimes"

[Xtrema]

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Yeah let's just have every country start executing people for non-violent "crimes"

Well, consider China and some Asian countries got introduced opium by the west in order to rob them of resources, I don't blame them to have this stance since then.

Actually, this is their justification on keep on shipping the west "elephant tranquilizers"

[max_boost]

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Well, consider China and some Asian countries got introduced opium by the west in order to rob them of resources, I don't blame them to have this stance since then.

Actually, this is their justification on keep on shipping the west "elephant tranquilizers"

The question is now, how strong is the China flex ?

[sabad66]

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Well, consider China and some Asian countries got introduced opium by the west in order to rob them of resources, I don't blame them to have this stance since then.

Actually, this is their justification on keep on shipping the west "elephant tranquilizers"

now that is an interesting conspiracy theory i can get behind. Punishing North America for the past Opium by enabling the fentanyl epidemic here. Genius lol

[Xtrema]

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now that is an interesting conspiracy theory i can get behind. Punishing North America for the past Opium by enabling the fentanyl epidemic here. Genius lol

Reality is that big pharm is producing ingredients for pain killers for cheap in China. Chinese factories love to run 3rd shifts and basically products from 3rd shift are getting leaked and shipped via Post systems worldwide.

Unfortunately, it's not illegal because Big Pharma make it so.

The same process that give us fake/cheap SD cards on Amazon is responsible for the Fentanyl crisis.

[Maxt]

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Oh Canada, enjoy the eye for an eye style of the Chinese.

I listened to an interview of a Chinese relations specialist a few weeks ago, he said there is no such thing as an eye for eye when you go toe to toe with China, they ratchet things right up out or proportion to teach other nations a lesson. In the interview he actually predicted that they would probably put someone to death for the arrest of the Huawei executive, and said Canada getting involved should have been a little better thought out diplomatically before hand, as no one else globally has come to back Canada up at all. He said if you take a Chinese eye out, they take the eye, 2 arms, a leg and a kidney when they retaliate. Also the current federal government is a bit of a laughing stock on the world stage so don't expect the Chinese to negotiate much with them, Trudeau went on that diversity/gender tour a while back and basically got sent packing.

[Xtrema]

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I listened to an interview of a Chinese relations specialist a few weeks ago, he said there is no such thing as an eye for eye when you go toe to toe with China, they ratchet things right up out or proportion to teach other nations a lesson. In the interview he actually predicted that they would probably put someone to death for the arrest of the Huawei executive, and said Canada getting involved should have been a little better thought out diplomatically before hand, as no one else globally has come to back Canada up at all. He said if you take a Chinese eye out, they take the eye, 2 arms, a leg and a kidney when they retaliate. Also the current federal government is a bit of a laughing stock on the world stage so don't expect the Chinese to negotiate much with them, Trudeau went on that diversity/gender tour a while back and basically got sent packing.

Conspiracy theory in China is that Meng's arrest is tied to signing of NAFTA 2.0.

There is 0 doubt that Trudeau and Freeland are amateurs handling the state portfolio and NAFTA 2.0 is BS. They have also underestimated China's response to Meng's arrest. I don't know if they have an end game in mind at all but so far just seem to be winging it.

Mccallum's piping up yesterday to save Meng was an interesting move.

NVM: He apologized.
https://ipolitics.ca/2019/01/24/mcca...s-extradition/