I set out this summer to write some amusing, maybe at times, hopefully insightful essays about my time in China. They were intended as much for personal catharsis as any profound revelations the reader will hopefully glean about China.
I started this essay about my run in with the Chinese police and legal system. It is completely non-sensical but I believe also reveals a lot about China.
I should say at the outset that I rushed it out a little bit so especially some of the ideas at the end are not as fully developed as I would like. I kept circling back to this piece and writing it over the past few months. However, with the recent arrest in Canada of Huawei CFO and then Chinese arrests of Canadians, I thought this would maybe help provide some context or framing to better understand something about how Chinese relate to the legal system.
I hope you will find it amusing, readable, and insightful in trying to understand China.
The short essay is here.
I want to believe there’s no political playing behind the arrest of Huawei CFO. But i feel puzzled after watching the Netflix documentary of HSBC’s $881 million money-laundering scandal (Dirty money - Cartel bank). If even committed crime did not cause an arrest of HSBC executives, how can we prove that politics have no play in Judicial system? Some news report like New York times are not enough. It’s just i don’t believe what you believe, and you don’t believe what i believe situation. Conflicts are inevitable.