Schweden lehnte eine Untersuchung des Schiffs ab, das mit durchtrennten Ostseekabeln in Verbindung steht

I think the democratic world needs to stop applying their own rules onto countries that don’t even follow rules.

So the rule of law says evidence is needed for conviction. But:

(1) investigation is the prerequisite and part of this rule, would China ever cooperate?

(2) would China ever admit to anything? Would they ever be honest?

(3) even if convicted, would China ever accept consequences?

There’s just zero point in applying our own rules on China. Convicting them and letting them try to actively prove it’s not them would be somewhat more efficient. And it’s not like they’d do this anyways. With countries like China and Russia, the only way to truly communicate with them is by their own “language”, not ours… Besides, so many things are so obvious to everyone already. China even pretty much indirectly admits to things and just threatens the world to stop saying and caring. Normally what’s stopping the world from further disputes with them is no other than the very attractive market and workforce of China. Hopefully the world knows to decouple with them some time. The only way this world remains peaceful is when China and Russia needs the world, definitely not when the world needs them. They will always weaponize those reliance.

Criminal refused police involvement.

Maybe a couple sanctions on China will get their cooperation