Commentary Recently, a minor row erupted on Twitter over some comments made about Spain’s shameless extradition of 94 Taiwanese citizens to China in June 2019. Those in favor came up with the usual questions: What are the options? Why should they not be sent back? Their basic assumption, taking Beijing’s word for it, is that those who were extradited were regular criminals and that Spain should not act as a “safe haven” for criminals in refusing to send them back. If this sounds familiar, it’s because it is the most common tactic used by Beijing whenever a country raises some resistance to sending dissidents back to China. But the recent warnings issued by Britain’s Foreign Office to Hong Kong dissidents exiled in the country and UK citizens critical of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) show that resistance is necessary now more than ever. The warnings issued to these Hong Kong activists, …