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I've occasionally rationalised this on the basis that I'd rather China knew everything about me than the US on the basis that I visit the US once every few year
by VBprogrammer 7y ago
I've occasionally rationalised this on the basis that I'd rather China knew everything about me than the US on the basis that I visit the US once every few years and am relatively unlikely to visit China.
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- threeseed 7y agoYou know that China has for a long time has been secretly kidnapping people in other countries: https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/29/the-disappeared-china-renditions-kidnapping/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/29/the-disappeared-china-r...
- faissaloo 7y agoYeah but so does America lol
- cstross 7y agoWhen the USA does that, it's called Extraordinary Rendition: https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/20-extraordinary-facts-about-cia-extraordinary-rendition-and-secret-detention https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/20-extraordina... Their main claim to legality is sufficiently questionable that they legislated to deny officers of the International Criminal Court entry to the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_International_Criminal_Court https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_Internat...
- vinay427 7y agoThe GP's point was that not planning to travel to China doesn't eliminate the consequences of trusting China. Trusting the US was already stated to be a problem because they travel there.
- brutally-honest 7y agoSo has the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition
- VBprogrammer 7y agoTo be fair, I also don't go out of my way to piss either of them off.
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