Title: Trumpian pawn
1. Donald Trump tweeted on Mar 2, 2018:
"When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win. Example, when we are down $100 billion with a certain country and they get cute, don’t trade anymore-we win big. It’s easy!"
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/969525362580484098
2. By now, however, it is obvious that "trade wars are NOT good, and NOT easy to win". Hence it won’t come as a surprise to find several Chinese nationals arrested for unsubstantiated charges in the US even before the latest arbitrary detention of the Huawei CFO. Trump seems to be using Chinese nationals as political pawns in his dangerous political game to achieve his personal political agenda.
3. As noted by a netizen in a US political forum:
"Something that everyone should take note of, if only for the concerning legal precedent it sets.
If one country can take its laws and apply it to everyone else in the world, what type of place is that going to be?
.... I'm pretty sure the U.S. laws she is being charged with don't specifically say they were designed to include foreign citizens in foreign countries anywhere in the world.
If that's how it works, imagine how many laws in other countries you are violating right now."
4. In this thread, I coin the term "Trumpian pawn" for any innocent foreigner who has become an unsuspecting victim of state-sponsored terrorism of another country.
