Bangkok doing Beijing's bidding
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Thailand recently deported two Chinese dissidents, even though they had been recognised as refugees by the UN. "We don't arrest anybody and send them back, but these two illegally entered Thailand and we had to arrest and send them back," explained Prime
Don’t you just love his logic?
Here’s what Chinese officials love: errant Chinese who are trying to escape persecution being sent back. Meanwhile Thailand can expect Beijing’s gratitude for being a good vassal state.
Sounds like North Korea, doesn’t it? When North Koreans risk their lives to swim across the swift and freezing Yalu River to escape their horrible country, guess what the Chinese do when they catch them? They send them right back to the snake pit.
While Chinese with fat wallets are welcomed in other countries, their poorer compatriots – often from ethnic minorities – are picked up and immediately sent back to be punished.
Kip Keino
