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> authorities have alleged that Mr. Hohn was illegally transporting ammunition

Is this all they managed to come up with? The bar for saber rattling is low these days.

Yeah, and to add to that, it appears that while airsoft guns are technically very restricted to the point of being non-practical in China, there is no reason to believe that the pellets themselves would be restricted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_in_airsoft#China

From that link, the law seems to be fuzzy enough that they can selectively enforce whatever they want.

Right. Thousands of people get detained for dumb reasons every day, in countries around the world. It’s only when China is involved that this somehow becomes the sinister, cynically strategic, premeditated work of a hive mind.

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