Subject: Re: Dope?
Why?

Because it's the legal underpinning of placing him in custody, that's why.

We would be aghast if some other country marched into the U.S. with their military if they wanted to capture one of our domestic criminals that is on the distribution/consumption end of an international drug cartel, and would (correctly) regard that as a gross violation of international law.

Are we harboring terrorists, laundering money, shipping oil in violation of all these rules you keep citing and running drugs into the country that's invading?

Amazing how the context never plays into these things...

But if China says that Lai Ching-te isn't the lawful head of the government of Taiwan, and proceeds to invade the country in order to capture him, the international community would (presumably) not accept that justification and would respond to China the way it would to any other act of naked territorial aggression. Now, though, that gets juuuuuuuust a bit harder...because China can point to our actions in Venezuela as an example of how such a military action can be justified if the person: i) isn't really a head of state; and ii) engaging in crimes that they claim affect their national security (however implausible that claim is).

LOLOLOLOLOL. Sure.
1. China doens't give a crap about "rules"
2. They don't regard Taiwan's government as legit in any way. Fortunately, everyone else does.