Reply #9: No argument...

[MrPrax]

I'll go one step further and not be nearly as polite as you...

The Chinese government can't be trusted at all -- I always assume they are lying until proven otherwise...(that's why I sorta wonder exactly why the CBC would bother with a bureau there? To shovel 'Chinese business prosperity' propaganda I suppose...

but I digress...

The dude was grabbed in Uzbekistan and turned over to the Chinese -- the fellow probably should have checked just how much co-operation there was between the two governments before --um--visiting relatives...as opposed to having the relatives come visit him.

It's the Canadian angle I don't get -- this guy just became a citizen immediately after the manadatory 5 year? It's was political asylum, no?

OK -- so this guy gets a newly minted Canadian passport and almost immediately runs back to Uzbekistan to 'visit' people? He's either nuts or a spook?

If he is a genuine little freedom fighter guy, then more power to him and my sympathies...BUT...looking at the paranoid state of Uzbekistan and the fact that the Uyghur Canadian Association champions the Falan Gong and Tibet will never sit well with the Chinese gov't.

Side note: those gitmo POWs that the US say is innocent, but is holding them anyway because they won't extradict to China, are Uyghur.

The planet's full of political prisoners...could be this poor fellow has a kidney someone wants :eyes: