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Why "evacuate"? Were the safety of the embassy's staff under threat? I can't help but wonder if the word was deliberately chosen for click-baiting --- the onl
by RyEgswuCsn 5y ago
Why "evacuate"? Were the safety of the embassy's staff under threat?
I can't help but wonder if the word was deliberately chosen for click-baiting --- the only three occurrences of "evacuate/evacuation", including the one in the title, are concentrated in the second and third paragraphs --- it is as if they are injected as a last-minute after-thought.
- BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago> Were the safety of the embassy's staff under threat? Seems they didn't want to risk it. > Not knowing whether the staff would retain diplomatic immunity, and not accepting its embassy’s demotion, Lithuania told all diplomats and dependants to keep their cards and leave the next day on an Air China flight to Paris.
- factorialboy 5y agoYes. China is known to use undisclosed radiation weapons against diplomats. US diplomats have suffered on multiple occasions.
- rhn_mk1 5y agoSources?
- mtmail 5y ago5min searching for sources ... Might be a mixup with sonic weapons. "An employee at the U.S. Embassy in Guangzhou, China, allegedly suffered mild traumatic brain injury after hearing a vague and abnormal sound" https://www.theepochtimes.com/with-sonic-weapon-attack-china-demonstrates-experimental-program_2539742.html https://www.theepochtimes.com/with-sonic-weapon-attack-china...
- RyEgswuCsn 5y agoWell, one should note that The Epoch Times is brought to you by the propaganda arm of the anti-CCP Falun gong.
- philliphaydon 5y agoAssuming you believe the the propaganda spread by the CCP about falun gong to begin with.
- sudosysgen 5y agoYou only need to believe them to realize they're an insane racist cult.
- philliphaydon 5y agoConsidering the CCP has along history of going after religion and is persecuting religion and religious people to this day, its difficult to believe that it's a 'racist cult' when prior to 1999 it was fine, and then the CCP realised it was gaining popularity and all of a sudden it's declared an evil cult that the CCP has used to blame everything on over the years.
- sudosysgen 5y agoThis is all completely irrelevant to the argument at hand. According to the Falun Gong themselves all interracial children are barred from Heaven, with their own special racism class system. I'm not quoting anyone but themselves. Beyond that, cults are obviously more dangerous the larger they are. That goes by itself.
- CRConrad 5y ago> cults are obviously more dangerous the larger they are. And the biggest cult in the world is the CPP -- no, correction: Judging from some posters' claims here about how all of China fervently believes Taiwan must be "reunited" with the PRC, the biggest cult in the world is... the PRC.
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- baylearn 5y agoThe Chinese government had demanded Lithuania’s remaining diplomats in Beijing hand in their diplomatic IDs to the foreign ministry to have their diplomatic status lowered. The move raised concern in Vilnius that the officials could lose diplomatic immunity, putting their safety at risk if they remained in China. [1] After Lithuania allowed Taiwan to open a representative office in Vilnius under the "Taiwan" name, and subsequently getting blocked from Chinese customs from EU shipping routes [2], and now being asked to change the ID of their diplomats to remove the diplomatic status, many would not doubt that the Chinese government would arrest and detain some embassy staff in this move, as ordinary residents of the country, like they have done in the past in the case of Canadians [3] [1] https://www.ft.com/content/587cff8f-3a7f-45c3-b4c7-8ac6f3e0aa9c https://www.ft.com/content/587cff8f-3a7f-45c3-b4c7-8ac6f3e0a... [2] https://www.reuters.com/article/china-lithuania-trade-idUSKBN2II0Y7 https://www.reuters.com/article/china-lithuania-trade-idUSKB... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Michael_Spavor_and_Michael_Kovrig https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Michael_Spavor_an...
- RyEgswuCsn 5y agoGenuine questions: 1. Do diplomats normally lose immunity after an embassy is demoted to a consulate (or something of a lower status)? 2. Did China have a history of detaining diplomatic personnel, disregarding their immunity?
- sudosysgen 5y agoDiplomats only lose immunity a certain time after being declared persona non grata. China doesn't have such a history.
- chx 5y ago> Were the safety of the embassy's staff under threat? Without question. Previously, China arrested Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig to force Canada to release Meng Wanzhou. No one forgot that.
- RyEgswuCsn 5y agoDid Lithuania detain Chinese citizens/diplomats first? I can understand their need to evacuate if they did.
- chx 5y agoNo but that act shows China considers arresting Western people as basically a chess move.