Well, I'm surprised no-one's posted this as yet ... An American wanted in the US for child abuse was living openly in China for a while now, and has finally been arrested in HK a week or so ago (after chinese police tipped HK police off about the guy's flight to HK).

Now, this is obviously great news.

However, the US and China do not have an extradition treaty which delayed this guy's arrest for a long time.

Should they have one? It would mean reciprocal treatment on BOTH sides, which means the US would have to also extradite those the Chinese considered criminals ... which I'm not sure would happen.

Your thoughts?

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He was also denouncing the U.S.A. while he was over there - I saw this on a report awhile back.
More than anything this is why the Chinese gov't welcomed him. (IMO)

The Chinese government would welcome YOU to work there too. They did not welcome him because he denounced the US. Sorry, but that's just NOT true - if in fact they hated the US so much, they wouldn't even have tipped the HK police off as they did (which eventually lead to the guy's capture).

It's these type of comments which foster distrust between people of both the mentioned nations.

What are your thoughts on my question regarding the extradition treaty? I think that is the salient question ...

I'm a fan of extradition...

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As long as BOTH parties are fair about it, and stick to the agreement, then I'm certianly for extradition myself.

Amazing how much bullshit ignorance and bigotry produces!

You mean just like all of the right / left bullshit flying around here on a daily basis ?

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criminals or political dissidents?

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ah ... There is the problem right there. The US would likely consider what China considers criminals to be political dissidents, and this is why there isn't any extradition treaty in the first place.

I believe though that the US should respect China's extradition requests if there were to be a treaty, and vice versa. In fact, looking at it from an American point of view, I can't see how it would hurt the US.