• Dawn_Beveridge [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      No no it's true the CCP showed up with a big flying saucer over his house and a big green light beamed out from the bottom of the saucer and then Xiao floated up from his bed into the saucer

    • RedDawn [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      He was going to be arrested in China, but his insiders tipped him off and he "fled" to Hong Kong. Not the brightest, since Hong Kong is still part of China and they arrested him there. I guess that's why it's an "abduction", supposedly the law didn't allow for extradition from Hong Kong to the mainland due to the autonomy of HK. This was before the national security law and HK riots (he was arrested in 2017).

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Well you see, the Chinese police showed up to his house in the middle of the night without warning him beforehand that they were going to arrest him. American cops would never do something so underhanded!

    • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Arrest isn't a neutral word exactly, but they spend so much time training the public to think that arrests are (almost) always deserved so they don't want the risk that people think a billionaire deserves such treatment