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gelendestrasse
I expect she didn't do anything that was really spying.
Alex Hutchins
These arrests are really troubling. Given the shady things China seems to be doing, it’s no wonder that foreign internet networks don’t want to use Chinese companies like Huawei, that production is being transfered to Vietnam and India, and that nations are turning toward the country aggressively.
China arrests but gives no detailed explanation. One key sign of a (in this case, thinly-veiled) dictatorship.
Ganbare Japan!
Despicable. I am very angry to read this. This is the price paid for doing business with a Communist dictatorship. Unless this Japanese woman is released immediately, many Chinese government staff must be expelled from Japan.
Goodlucktoyou
If I wanted to be a spy in a foriegn country, language schools or churches would be the perfect cover.
trinklets2
And if I wanted to indoctrinate someone, I'll jail him and release him after and nobody will never suspect!
Tokyo-Engr
Unfortunately there will be no trial or if there is we will have no access the contents of such trial.
I have no desire to even set foot in China. Their "social credit system" which will start within the next 2 years is about as draconian as it gets.
@Ganbare - in spite of all your down votes I agree with you (perhaps without the last comment)
thepersoniamnow
Shes in for some hell. If not guilty that is really unfortunate.
Wasn't aware that the punishment in China for espionage was 6 years! That’s pretty lax
kwatt
People can't easily go to China for sightseeing. When they are going taking pictures all over, secret police find you and arrest you due to espionage. You would be detained for years. Even a little child does it, charge him/her spy.
Matt Hartwell
Just as likely she refused to spy on behalf of the Chinese government
After all, she was teaching at a...
To me, that seems the far more likely story.
You only have to look at the flow of tourists to see that sentiment is widely shared.
Ex_Res
Despicable. I am very angry to read this. This is the price paid for doing business with a Communist dictatorship. Unless this Japanese woman is released immediately, many Chinese government staff must be expelled from Japan.
Having seen Japan's standard of law in the last two weeks regarding detention without a charge, I don't really think that Japan is in any position to be criticising any other countries law.
trinklets2
@Matt Hartwell, refused to be a Chinese spy or was busted as a double spy? At delicate times like this the lure of money and power can easily overwhelm certain race which has the extreme ambition to outdo everyone. Just being skeptical and not being a racist, though.
Andrew Crisp
Its amusing the Chinese are jailing people without publicly releasing details of the trial or case, while complaining about the Canadians and Americans detaining the CFO of Huawei which we all know is on suspicions of breaching Iranian sanctions
englisc aspyrgend
Andrew Crisp, I am expecting a number of innocent Canadian citizens to be arrested in the free and liberal paradise called China in a while as retaliation. A dictatorship does not need a valid case to arrest anyone if they wish to send a message, and I suspect this unfortunate person is in that precise situation (thepersoniamnow, that might explain the”lenient” prison term, for real espionage especially a person of Chinese origin, I would expect more in the line of a bullet in the back of the head).
Any desire to visit China as a tourist that I once had has long since evaporated.
Michael G
I've been to China. I'll never go there again.
GyGene
Me too Michael. I'll never visit a communist place again. You can even feel the oppression.
lostrune2
People are demanding to see evidence on the Huawei exec case
Did we even see any evidence from China in this case?