- Sep 19, 2020
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Summary: Reconsider travel to Mainland China due to the arbitrary enforcement of local laws, including in relation to exit bans, and the risk of wrongful detentions.
Americans should not be getting wrongfully detained in China. The Admin should do something more than a travel advisory.
- Advisory comes after a 78-year-old U.S. citizen was sentenced to life in prison on spying charges in May
- China recently passed a broadly written counterespionage law
- Advisory warns: U.S. citizens in China 'may be detained without access to U.S. consular services or information about their alleged crime'
- China had no immediate response to the travel advisory on Monday.
US warns Americans against traveling to China
The U.S. recommended Americans reconsider traveling to China because of arbitrary law enforcement and exit bans and the risk of wrongful detentions.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Americans should not be getting wrongfully detained in China. The Admin should do something more than a travel advisory.