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Interpol Begs Beijing For Information On Europe's Top Cop

Following reports that Interpol chief Meng Hongwei, 64, had been "taken away for questioning" by Chinese disciplinary authorities almost immediately after arriving in China last week, Bloomberg reported that the supranational law-enforcement agency had formally asked Beijing for "a clarification" about Meng's status.

Meng, who is also a deputy minister for public safety in China though he had been living with his family in Lyon, France, where Interpol's headquarters is based, was reported missing by his wife earlier this week, prompting prosecutors in France to open an investigation. That investigation is continuing despite confirmation that Meng is being held by the Chinese government.

"Interpol has requested through official law enforcement channels clarification from China’s authorities on the status of Interpol President Meng Hongwei," Juergen Stock, secretary general of the organization based in Lyon, France, said in a statement. "Interpol’s general secretariat looks forward to an official response from China’s authorities to address concerns over the president’s well-being."

Meng is also China's deputy minister of public security and has 40 years of experience in policing and public safety. His experience includes stints working on narcotics enforcement and counter-terrorism, according to Interpol’s website. While many at Interpol feared Meng would abuse his position to encourage foreign governments to extradite Chinese dissidents living abroad, instead, he appears to have taken an interest in cybercrime enforcement since his election in November 2016. His term is set to expire in 2020.

Meng's family hasn't received any information about his status since he left France on Sept. 29. Nobody from the French of Chinese governments returned Bloomberg's request for comment.

While the exact justification surrounding Meng's capture remains murky, the South China Morning Post reported that Meng may be the latest target of the Chinese government's anti-corruption campaign.

If true, this is clearly bad news for Meng and his family, and brings to mind the fate of another prominent Communist Party official, Bo Xilai, a former municipal party chief known for his crackdown on organized crime and corruption. Bo was stripped of his status and eventually sentenced to life in prison. Others who have been prosecuted under Chinese President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption crackdown have suffered an even worse fate.

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I hate cell phones and only have one because this place is fitted for a landline.

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I hate cell phones and only have one because this place is fitted for a landline.

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Uh, did you mean ISN'T fitted for a landline??


I trust China about as far as I trust Russia. Which is only slightly less than our own Federal Glubberment.

I still think an AI programmed by another AI is going to be the answer to all governments. True, we'll have to get through that rough period of time where humankind is enslaved by giraffe first, but I think we'll be better off in the long run. (wonders if anyone will get the reference...)

If AI is going to happen eventually anyway, I've decided to embrace the idea

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I hate cell phones and only have one because this place is fitted for a landline.

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Uh, did you mean ISN'T fitted for a landline??


I trust China about as far as I trust Russia. Which is only slightly less than our own Federal Glubberment.

I still think an AI programmed by another AI is going to be the answer to all governments. True, we'll have to get through that rough period of time where humankind is enslaved by giraffe first, but I think we'll be better off in the long run. (wonders if anyone will get the reference...)

If AI is going to happen eventually anyway, I've decided to embrace the idea

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Why did Bill Clinton push for NAFTA?

And this was in an era when there was a vigorous anti-NAFTA campaign by H Ross Perot. Perot left us with the phrase "giant sucking sound", which described exactly what happened to jobs in the USA (700,000 jobs lost, due to NAFTA). Later, Clinton would say that NAFTA was the greatest mistake I've ever made.

Democrats are no better than Republicans when it comes to protecting our manufacturing capacity. They'll sell us down the river just as fast as the GOP. The "regrets" that come afterwards don't stop them from doing the same thing, or worse, even faster and harder in the future. Obama not only wants the TPP, he want to abrogate Congress' negotiating authority by trying for a "fast track" around Congress.

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Anybody but me wish we could do the TPP treaty again. What a fuck up pulling out was. Once again Sig proves herself to be nothing more than a commie moron.

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Philippines tells China to mind its own business over maritime drills

MANILA (Reuters) - China has no business telling the Philippines what it can or cannot do within its waters, Manila's defence ministry said on Wednesday, rejecting Beijing's opposition to its ongoing coastguard exercises.

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In a statement, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson congratulated the China National Space Administration on the Zhurong rover’s pictures.

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