We find it odd that a person holding a Swiss passport, traveling with Swiss diplomats, gets plucked off a train and disappears on his way to Beijing. This was not the first time he has disappeared. The first one, in 2015, was from his vacation home in Thailand where he was kidnapped and returned to
China. He was only one of several this happened to. His crime was well-known; he was selling banned books in Hong Kong. The Swiss don’t seem to mind, and gave him sympathetic citizenship. We can’t hardly blame them.
It goes to what the Chinese have always done, recruit spies, encourage repatriations, and influence those Chinese who live outside China to behave. Never mind that they are citizens of another country. They are still expected to behave the way China wants. This is a thought we might have when remembering the numbers of Chinese who have been allowed to buy US citizenship or green cards to become resident aliens. While we are redoing immigration policies we should do away with the idea that someone from another country can have loyalty to more than one country. Dual citizens are not loyal to both countries. In the case of China, they are not allowed to be.
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