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A FedEx pilot was arrested by Chinese authorities

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New York (CNN Business)A FedEx pilot was recently detained by Chinese authorities in Guangzhou, a city in southern mainland China. It's the latest in an escalating conflict between the shipping company and the Chinese government. The Hong Kong-based pilot, Todd Hohn, was trying to board a commercial flight home after making a delivery to mainland China, when he was arrested after a luggage search, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing a family lawyer for Hohn. FedEx (FDX)… (www.cnn.com) More...

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Jackx9
Don Quixote 13
You can cross China off my bucket list.
whip5209
Ken McIntyre 3
And to think I was planning a trip to Hong Kong this year. I'm staying away from China. Plenty of other places in the world. Not even going there to change planes.
COYOTEHUNTER
COYOTEHUNTER 6
Doesn't this just sound like another day in politics.
People just being used as pawns...
TorontoJeff
Jeff Phipps 7
We have 2 Canadian citizens on China's death row on trumped up charges because we executed an arrest warrant on a Huawei executive. China has been off my bucket list for decades.
Jeraboam
Jeraboam 2
The arrest was made at the request of the US government which then exasperated the situation by taking months to come up with the official extradition documents. Canada has been attacked with trade sanctions since and now the executive is fighting the court rulings and the Canadian government and judicial systems are dragging out the process at a huge cost to our farming, mining and manufacturing industries.
karandjoh
John Reilly 0
Is that "exacerbated?" "Exasperated" isn't a bad way of descibing it, though.
TorstenHoff
Torsten Hoff 4
So they arrested him for carrying inert, small plastic Airsoft pellets? Talk about trumped up charges.

Rusted69
Tim Lamborn 2
681 airsoft pellets, someone actually counted them! I’m glad I stopped going there.
HunterTS4
Toby Sharp 5
definately sum ting wong with this.
jbsimms
James Simms 4
Ho Li Chit no Wi Tu Lo.....
ADXbear
ADXbear 1
Prob life for real Ammo
sgbelverta
sharon bias -8
These pellets couldn't have been purchased in any other Country and not transported through China? Did he deserve to be arrested? No. Was that a stupid action? Yes.
btweston
btweston 1
What?

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