Commentary
Portugal’s failure to even attempt to use leverage to secure the safety of its own citizen—a teenager who was detained, held incommunicado, and later sentenced to prison in a secret trial—illustrates European failure to understand the nature of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and how to deal with it effectively.
As I recently wrote, Portugal is set to reverse recent changes around Europe, which has generally gotten tougher on China when it comes to extraditing people, as China’s already weak legal safeguards have weakened further under Xi Jinping’s rule, and its human rights record has gotten even worse….