Convicted felon President Trump’s regime this week extradited to Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping’s regime an ICE detainee, identified only by his surname Han, suspected by cops in of trafficking drugs, the Wall Street Journal reports without any further detail whatsoever.
Just that ICE agents acting on a tip arrested the guy and put him on a plane back home. The rest of the story’s about how this is a token of cooperation ahead of the two autocrats’ summit in Beijing next month. Nothing so much as a hint as to the evidence against the man, like if ICE found him with 50 lbs of fentanyl in the trunk of his car, if he’d been caught in a sting operation, or any hint as to his politics – if any. That information’s kind of important since, well, the guy’s 100 percent going to be executed and it would help to know what was used to make a determination that he should be sent to certain death in China. It would be pretty fucked up, to say the least, if Han’s not a drug smuggler but a Shen Yun choreographer whose “drug” is simply mesmerizing dance productions.
Not that Shen Yun are a paragon of human rights and decency but you get the point. This is fucking twisted that the Trump regime lets the Journal pick up the news instead of providing a full account to the public of how Han was arrested and what was the probable cause to execute a warrant on him, that Americans can feel at least confident enough that the guy’s a drug dealer, not a dissident.
The fact that it’s coming from Xinhua and not DHS first is itself a big red flag as it flies in the face of years of MAGA propaganda about Chinese cartels supplying fentanyl to the US. Why they hell wouldn’t they want to parade this guy as the “WORST OF THE WORST” for Fox News etc, make a big show of deporting him if he really was trafficking the shit across international borders?
In related-enough news, Bloomberg reports that Xi on Friday continued his purge of the ChiCom Party’s Politburo, sacking Ma Xingrui, former party secretary of China’s western Xinjiang region, placing him under investigation for “severe violations” of laws and something something “party discipline,” also according to a Xinhua article that also did not say what the hell Ma did to piss off Xi.