China thinks it can arbitrarily detain anyone. It is time for change | Michael Caster

The lack of global outcry over the detention of two Canadians virtually guarantees the next such case Canada's foreign minister, Chrystia Freeland, has called China's detention of Canadian citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor a "worrying precedent" but for many China watchers it is all too familiar. It reminds us of the detentions of other foreign citizens, such as Canadian Kevin Garratt, Briton Peter Humphrey, Sweden's Gui Minhai, or Taiwanese Lee Ming-che, and that over the years China h...