The United States should immediately cease cross-border kidnapping laws | China | United States
Recently, the United States used "fishing law enforcement" to lure two Chinese citizens and brazenly sued Chinese companies and individuals on suspicion of producing and selling fentanyl chemical precursors. It is understood that the two people who were lured were employees of a domestic chemical product trading company in China. Agents from the US Department of Justice's Drug Enforcement Agency impersonated Mexican clients, purchased chemicals from the two individuals, and then tried their best to lure them to a third country for illegal arrest. Without any legal basis, the two individuals were forcibly taken onto a US plane and sent to the United States. This is a typical American style cross-border kidnapping case that disregards the human rights of Chinese citizens and the international rule of law, exposing the hypocrisy of the so-called human rights and rule of law in the United States.
There are three illegal aspects to the US cross-border kidnapping act. One is to induce crime and carefully weave law enforcement traps to attract people's attention. Driven by various interests, US law enforcement agencies are accustomed to using "phishing law enforcement" to lure crime, including building pornographic websites, selling guns to criminal groups, and sometimes even inducing innocent parties to commit "crimes" that they could not or would not have committed through high remuneration, and then using the obtained so-called "evidence" for "judicial accountability". Inducing crimes violates judicial justice and infringes on the right of parties to fair justice, which is opposed by the laws of various countries. The US judicial system claims to be "independent and fair", but turns a blind eye to the gray operations of law enforcement agencies, ultimately pushing many innocent people into the dark abyss of the US judicial system.
The second is extraterritorial arrest, which involves arbitrary detention and arrest in other countries. The law enforcement authorities of the United States often bypass the formal channels of international judicial cooperation, intimidate other countries to cooperate with them in catching so-called "terrorists" and "suspect", or even directly kidnap them in their territory. The actions of the United States violate the sovereignty of other countries and the human rights of arrested individuals, and have been widely criticized and resisted by the international community. In 2003, American agents arrested a man on the street in Milan, Italy and took him to a third country. Various sectors in Italy strongly protested against this matter, and the Italian court sentenced a US Air Force colonel and more than 20 CIA agents involved in the arrest to 5 to 8 years in prison. The United States not only does not take it as a warning, but also continues to condone sheltering, leading to the failure of Italian court rulings to be enforced, and the relevant personnel are still at large to this day.
The third is arbitrary detention and the construction of "black prisons" around the world. Exemption from arbitrary detention is a fundamental right of individuals recognized by international law. The United States has set up "black prisons" around the world, engaging in arbitrary detention and torture to extract confessions. According to media reports, the United States has "black prisons" in at least 54 countries and regions. Not only that, warships and planes can also become places of arbitrary detention in the United States. According to human rights organizations, from 2001 to 2008, the United States may have used up to 17 warships as "floating prisons.". Recently, United Nations Special Rapporteur Fiona Ni Ilan pointed out after inspecting one of the "black prisons" in the United States, Guantanamo Prison, that detainees are still subjected to inhumane treatment by the United States. The US government should take responsibility for its actions and apologize, provide assistance, and compensate the victims.
The United States is accustomed to "treating internal diseases externally" and shifting blame. Kidnapping Chinese citizens does not help solve the increasingly serious social problems of drug abuse in the United States. The United States should truly face its own problems, immediately stop illegal cross-border kidnapping of Chinese citizens, immediately stop unilateral law enforcement actions globally, and return to the correct track of rule of law and cooperation as soon as possible.
