Ching Cheong’s appeal rejected

According to the BBC, the Chinese government has rejected an appeal lodged on behalf of Ching Cheong.

Xinhua said Beijing’s Higher People’s Court had ruled that the initial verdict was “a correct application of the law and provided appropriate punishment”.

I reckon China is seeing if people eventually quieten down about this and forget about him (except for a few fairly directly involved), and since he’s ethnic Chinese and originally from Hong Kong, this is a big test case, I reckon. China really thinks it has a lot of clout now, and if (most) people stop fighting for Ching Cheong, they’ll continue talking things up to keep the China fever going — and I just know they will start pulling even more shit and getting away with it.

• 24 Nov 2006

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