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First off - no one has been dragged off, they are merely preventing the exchange operators (that are originally resident in China anyway) from leaving the count

First off - no one has been dragged off, they are merely preventing the exchange operators (that are originally resident in China anyway) from leaving the country until they execute an orderly shutdown. i.e. No holidays for now, we don't want you doing a MarkK. Also, we are talking China here not NK, but don't let the facts get in the way of your point. Btw, you do have "temporary injunctions" in other parts of the world too.

Chris2048 9y ago
> no one has been dragged off same is as true for N. Korea
brianwawok 9y ago
China sounds great, you should apply for citizenship?
- issaria 9y ago
  Which is not so easy to get from what I heard of.
- WithHighProb 9y ago
  It's almost impossible for foreigners
  - baybal2 9y ago
    Not almost, there are whooping 48 or 49 naturalized Chinese citizens who got citizenship through means other than marriage since the naturalization law was introduced 1998
le-mark 9y ago
That may all be true in this instance, but previously, executives have been executed for various things. The story I recall was some sort of fraud, but who knows what the real reason was. I don't have a reference handy unfortunately.
Quarrelsome 9y ago
you're espousing the benefits of autocratic control. I am describing the trade-off. Sure, maybe China isn't dragging people off to gulags today but the point is that autocratic control means they can if they want to.
- NotSammyHagar 9y ago
  They are kidnapping or taking people away still today. They are kidnapping people like the folks in hong kong who publish books the leaders don't like, here's an article https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/17/china-behaving-like-gangster-state-with-bookseller-kidnap-say-hong-kong-politicians https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/17/china-behaving...
Cozumel 9y ago
>First off - no one has been dragged off China is known for it, here's just one story from the other month https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/03/china-enforced-disappearance-liu-xiaobo-widow-liu-xia https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/03/china-enforced... you can find plenty more if you look. Chinese baby factories: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/shocking-pictures-show-chinese-baby-4971128 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/shocking-pictures-sh... Citizens are also disappeared to provide transplants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Gong_practitioners_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go... China is not a nice place, look at their internet crackdown as well.

Chris2048 9y ago

> no one has been dragged off same is as true for N. Korea

brianwawok 9y ago

China sounds great, you should apply for citizenship?

issaria 9y ago
Which is not so easy to get from what I heard of.
WithHighProb 9y ago
It's almost impossible for foreigners
- baybal2 9y ago
  Not almost, there are whooping 48 or 49 naturalized Chinese citizens who got citizenship through means other than marriage since the naturalization law was introduced 1998

le-mark 9y ago

That may all be true in this instance, but previously, executives have been executed for various things. The story I recall was some sort of fraud, but who knows what the real reason was. I don't have a reference handy unfortunately.

Quarrelsome 9y ago

you're espousing the benefits of autocratic control. I am describing the trade-off. Sure, maybe China isn't dragging people off to gulags today but the point is that autocratic control means they can if they want to.

NotSammyHagar 9y ago
They are kidnapping or taking people away still today. They are kidnapping people like the folks in hong kong who publish books the leaders don't like, here's an article https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/17/china-behaving-like-gangster-state-with-bookseller-kidnap-say-hong-kong-politicians https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/17/china-behaving...

Cozumel 9y ago

>First off - no one has been dragged off China is known for it, here's just one story from the other month https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/03/china-enforced-disappearance-liu-xiaobo-widow-liu-xia https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/03/china-enforced... you can find plenty more if you look. Chinese baby factories: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/shocking-pictures-show-chinese-baby-4971128 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/shocking-pictures-sh... Citizens are also disappeared to provide transplants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Gong_practitioners_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go... China is not a nice place, look at their internet crackdown as well.