>I'm just pointing out that China has literally all the cards >here, so the school/family/gov't lawyers need to give them >whatever they want, because China has proven in the past >they'll lock foreigners up to make an example-- and it's a >pretty cut-and-dry case in this situation. It'll all depend on >how lenient the folks in China choose to be-- so everyone >needs to give them a reason to feel like being lenient.
Is the case really that “cut-and-dry” at this point? Do we even know what actually happened?