China especially suffered from having been forced to grant 
"extraterritoriality" to the European Powers and Japan in the nineteenth 
century as the result of a series of trade treaties.  Indeed, entire 
cities fell under various European law codes.

Are we talking about "Spheres of Influence?"

If those rapists had been just Joe American, they'd have been as shit out 
of luck as the guy who got caned in Singapore a while back...they got off 
easy because they had the US Military backing them.

it was in singapore??  oh man, i feel stupid...!

But this sort of attitude is hardly unique to the US...this sort of thing 
happens all the time all over the world when citizens of the more 
powerful nations commit a crime in some nation whose laws they consider 
"unfair" or "barbaric".

all too true.

signed, phoneynt
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