China executes French national convicted in 2010 for drug trafficking

I remember this being part of regular announcements on board of every domestic Indonesian flight I've been on.

It greatly depends on the drugs trafficked, but Singapore doesn't f*** around with the law. You could get lucky though if you're like [this guy](https://www.channelnewsasia.com/cna-insider/producers-inside-maximum-security-inmates-filming-2628021).

[Still have mine](https://imgur.com/a/Tfx42Gn) I’ve been back a couple times since and their arrival cards are digital now - it certainly makes for a conversation piece

Same! I was about to say this; was in Singapore in Feb 2018 and very vividly remember the airhostesses handing us the immigration arrival cards about 30 mins before landing, and I immediately took a picture cause of how prominent the BIG RED LETTERS were saying they execute drug traffickers. Still have the pic on my cloud hahaha.

I received a text message from my country’s foreign affairs ministry when I landed in Singapore saying don’t agree to carry any kind of package, the penalty is death

Too late to even bother printing it at that point.

Yeah I think it’s an extreme punishment and don’t support it, but you can’t say you weren’t warned. They are very serious about it in a lot of Asia. That’s just the way it is and you know the risks when you do it

What does that have to do with china?

I like that warning, straight to the point.

Singapore isn't in China though, so...

It’s “Death for drug traffickers under Singapore law”

But the problem is that any drug quantity will qualify as drug trafficker

Scary. Not for those that do so voluntarily… But for that one person or two that will be framed by someone with their own personal reasons.

Yep. Former colleague of mine smuggled in some Class A drugs, got a colossal sentence and then died alone in a shithole prison thousands of miles away from home - an absolute waste of a life.

Daily reminder to not traffic drugs at all

There goes my plans for today

I remember seeing what happened to Britney Grimer or whatever her name was and people being like “this could happen to anybody! it’s just a weed pen, she didn’t know” and thinking to myself “how the f*** could you not know?!”

I wouldn't recommend smuggling drugs to them, but I don't think Korea or Japan execute you for it. Maybe in extremely severe cases? Korea hasnt executed anyone in 30 years.

Seems logical. There's only one problem: drugs can be planted to use you as a political bargaining chip if your nationality is convenient at the moment. So maybe just don't travel to autocratic countries at all, especially if you are a person of some "value". It's called hostage diplomacy. One of the more famous examples is Mark Swidan. 

What if a drug mule dumps drugs in your travel bag?

History strikes back. My assumption is that the entire sinosphere has a really negative view of drugs ever since the opium wars with Britain, it gained the reputation of ruining entire nations and all of their populations. But like another commenter pointed out, there is a well-known uncomfortable truth with executions in China but also wider Asia: Modern China basically never executes white people despite on paper them having committed the same crimes as other Chinese and Asians, if not worse. So in essence, a white persons life is more valuable than an Asian persons life in the eyes of an Asian government. This silent admission is brewing in lots of Asian countries with death penalties since forever and it makes their own countrymen deeply angry because its a double-standard that both Western governments and Asian governments hold up. Asian governments do not want to jeopardize relations with Western countries because executing a white person is extremely grave while executing an Asian person with a Western passport is not that big of a deal. And Western countries always drum up "rule of law" but then definitely stop at the death penalties for white people and try to enforce exceptions for them even though the local laws are clear on this. They want to bend the local rules for white people.

They’ll throw you away in Aus but we legally don’t have any capital punishment.

I'm laughing at the comments defending drug dealers. Just don't traffic drugs, how hard is that😂😂😂

Reminds me of a Korean-American miscer that trafficked in some weed to South Korea back when and got a few years of hard jail for it. I don’t remember any specifics, but it sounded like a rancid time.

For anyone that doesn’t know, the ultra simplified version: Britain wanted Chinese goods but couldn’t pay for shit so they started selling Opium. Cue mass drug addiction, a couple Opium Wars with Britain, Eight Nation Alliance to stop China after they got sick of being walked all over, a couple Sino-Japanese wars, and a tens of millions dead, a couple rebellions and a revolution here and there, the collapse of the Qing Dynasty that mind you less than a century ago to this point was one of the richest countries on the planet, and then founding of the Republic of China, a couple civil wars, and ultimately the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Aka the Century of Humiliation Yeah no shit why modern day China f****** hates drugs

You have Britain to thank for that too. The opium wars, the century of humiliation… China does not forget.

But have you considered that the people who do this are stubborn and dumb?

damn why did nobody think of this before

Meh, it's a great way to make money. The risks are way overblown. Live a little!

How about trafficking *all* the drugs to *every* country?

What a great idea! Wow i bet anyone reading this immediately stopped selling drugs 😲

It's reported elsewhere he was born in Guangzhou, China. Not sure which is true, but certainly if he was born in China he had even less excuse for not understanding the laws of the country and how they treat dual citizenship. In general, on crime and punishment matters, China treats anyone born in China as a Chinese citizen, regardless of whether they've later acquired another citizenship.

Actual dual citizens, or citizens that are 100% from a single other nationality but look Asian?

The other huge drug traffickers, responsible for the fentanyl epidemic (Sackler family) live a happily rich life in USA

Except ciggies!

Because the death penalty doesn't really work as a deterrent. And the demand for drugs of some sort is a pretty consistent thing with humanity throughout the globe and throughout history

For reference, China has 100s of drug related executions per year in a country of 1.4 billion and still 50,000-ish drug related deaths. The US somehow has 70,000-ish fentanyl overdose deaths alone (!) in a county of 340 million.

You don't want the death penalty? Simply don't traffic drugs.

"Is the death penalty for drug trafficking a good idea? No." Why?

Death sentence is possible “thanks” to the European constitution we voted against… EDIT: I revisited the text since then. I remembered wrongly as it was in case of intervention during a terrorist attack (not after a trial) and some fine prints about war exceptions. Since 2004 there have been some laws specifically confirming death sentence is banned in the EU (protocol 13). Sorry for the wrong comment

French is welcome to change their law to execute drug trafficker.

This person committed the crime in PRC, so he will be tried by PRC law. French law has no effect in a foreign country. It’s France’s choice to not have capital punishment, so if there’s a difference in punishments it’s their own problem

You know what, we Europeans generally hold the United States to a higher standard than autocratic, one party, states. As we do with all Western democracies  Perhaps we shouldn't be doing that any more with the US. But that says more about the state of America than it does about European Listnookors.

Yeah? Whats your point?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_strikes_on_alleged_drug_traffickers_during_Operation_Southern_Spear > as of 25 March 2026, at least 163 people had been killed (including 3 who are missing and presumed dead) in at least 47 strikes on 48 vessels and the US had made its first strike on a land target within Venezuela. There is not enough uproar here.

Wait until China invades Taiwan and the Listnook circle jerk moves on to India.

I doubt an uproar, listnookors have always mentioned to stay out of countries that arrest for petty things. Look at that basketball girl in Russia... thc in an enemy country is plain stupidity.

Chinese people will probably support that. Drugs are not good