Shit’s going to fall apart completely at some point, but we were thinking this 30 years ago too and its still somehow kicking along. Is it enough to bank on for retirement? Absolutely not, but that’s also sadly been true for quite a while.

None of your business? China is free to make charges public whenever they choose. I really don’t get why you think it’s so meaningful of a difference between not making charges and making charges that can then be dropped at any time. Your justice system doesn’t have any more high ground.

The article says no such thing.

And I’m pretty sure your country has some form of investigative detention. If you’re American that can last up to 48 hours. And it really doesn’t matter because authorities there can just throw out charges, deny bail, blackmail people with absurd incarceration lengths into confessing their guilt, and detain them for years before a trial (or forever in some cases). And at any point in time those charges can be dropped.

And if you really want to go into the pros and cons between different justice systems, we can do that but it doesn’t really have much to do with being a tankie or not.

Where did you get this information that no crime has been committed and they are just being detained for shits and giggles?

Am I supposed to think a government holding the people running businesses (apparently very poorly in this case) accountable for their actions is a bad thing?

I wish we’d learn the lesson that manipulating other countries often ends up in people being reactionary and turning toward religious nationalism to fight back against the foreign enemy. This government is in power because of Western governments’ actions. And then supporting a brutal proxy war against them and trying to isolate them internationally after that failed sure hasn’t helped. It just fuels the reactionaries.