Forced repatriation, forced statements, multi-year imprisonment awaiting trial, 10 year sentence for further imprisonment. https://www.npr.org/2020/02/25/80916

Forced repatriation, forced statements, multi-year imprisonment awaiting trial, 10 year sentence for further imprisonment. https://www.npr.org/2020/02/25/809163417/hong-kong-bookseller-sentenced-by-china-to-10-years-for-passing-intelligence https://www.npr.org/2020/02/25/809163417/hong-kong-bookselle... Apples and oranges to an extent but not that different to the west's treatment of Assange. The core difference being, Assange published information that highly embarassed the DOD and documented its war crimes causing a significant disturbance in the status quo for allies and the US whereas Gui apparently only published information that embarassed Xi Jinping's family. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange Another example that comes to mind is that of Israel's kidnap of Vanunu. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu At least it wasn't simply death as per Saudi's assassination of Khashoggi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal_Khashoggi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal_Khashoggi Alternatively, imagine if the boat you are on at the edge of an ocean on the other side of the world is suddenly blown up by a highly trained team of special ops people for a western government, as France did to Greenpeace's vessel in Auckland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior Or even, in the same country, having a multi helicopter airborne assault team and 76 ground based personnel raid your house because you are accused by the US government of breaking copyright rules on the internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom Truly, it may be said that governments - whatever their continent or nominal ideological configuration - can be quite nasty to individuals and dismissive of due process. Further, they are effectively powerless to call one another to justice on such matters, and a certain amount of this sort of thing is perhaps tacitly accepted as normal covert and intelligence agency activity. Usually it becomes some sort of diplomatic or political straight-lipped talking point with apologies or statements issued many years past the fact, failing whatsoever to make amends. However, every time this occurs it fundamentally weakens territorial integrity and thus the legitimacy of governments globally, causing populations to cast them in the same light as predatory profit focused multinational corporations or - let's be honest - organized crime.