主题：【文摘】中国10次拒绝英国交涉 明日将处死英国毒贩 -- 真理

This is comment from the Independent reader, which is intelligent and says all...

"I wouldn't call the Chinese savages. It's a bit of a strong word. One thing I respect them for is that they apply their laws evenly and consistently no matter who breaks them. Their laws may seem barbaric to the wet-liberals here in the UK because of how WE'VE watered down our laws. It's not just China who impose the death sentence on drug smuggling you know. Most of Asia impose it, so does the Middle East. You gonna convince all them to scrap the death sentence when the authorities there know much of the global drug trade passes through their provences?

Also, it looks like a lot of people here simply do not understand how the Asian mind works over there. The Chinese HAD no option but to pass and carry out the death sentence and resist pressure from the west. To do so otherwise would incurred the "loss of face" syndrome and showing weakness to the west. Politically, that would not be acceptable due to the amount of international publicity it received and it would have opened up a nasty legal loophole in the Chinese justice system.

If the newspapers hadn't reported it so much and our government jumping up and down over it, the poor sap may have stood a chance of getting his sentence commuted to life after discussions and a payment of some kind between his family & the Chinese authorities to buy his life.

It all failed because people tried to apply Western logic to Eastern culture. Now that it's been carried out, the it's all moot and that's all I'm saying on the subject.

BTW, Here in the UK our laws are all over the place, full of loopholes and are never consistent when applied to the same crime by different people. Generations of meddlesome governments and weak-willed judges have seen to that and I don't have any respect for the UK legal system due to that."

why doesnt "Great Britain" get its own affairs in order before commenting on another countrys judicial system......especially a british justice system so farcical that its almost a pantomime.Oh and as Dirk says,the days of China having to listen to Britain are long gone.Its like swatting a pesky mosquito.