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No, there isn't. Look at https://twitter.com/osinthk https://twitter.com/osinthk, they do a really good job getting to the bottom of this stuff. Cheng was not
by idlewords 7y ago
No, there isn't. Look at https://twitter.com/osinthk https://twitter.com/osinthk, they do a really good job getting to the bottom of this stuff.
Cheng was not abducted to the mainland; he was arrested on the mainland side of the boundary crossing at the high-speed rail station in Kowloon, coming back from Shenzhen. The fact that there's a border crossing in downtown Hong Kong is its own issue, but his case can't be called an abduction (unlike the case of the booksellers a few years ago).
Anyway, please stop spreading falsehoods, there's enough of that going around.
- tremon 7y agoSo, your argument that it wasn't an abduction, is because he wasn't taken from Hong Kong, but from Chinese soil?
- yorwba 7y agoThe claim upstream for which there's no evidence: > "people being shipped off in train cars reminiscent of pre-WWII photos that I have only learned about in school." There's a difference between one person getting arrested and mass deportation. One should be able to criticize the former without falsely claiming that it's the latter.
- idlewords 7y agoCorrect, he was detained on the mainland side of a boundary crossing.
- verall 7y agoThis is correct and I appreciate that but even though he was on the chinese side of west kowloon hsr many would still consider it something of an abduction. Even clarifying to people he hadn't made it across the border yet, it still feels different than if he was picked up in Shenzhen.