Every Tuesday for a number of weeks a man named Tzu Tsai Cheng has been remanded in custody for another week at Bow Street magistrates' court. Cheng is a member of the World United Formosans for Independence, and was taken unconscious from an airliner at Heathrow Airport at the beginning of September while in the process of being extradited from Sweden to the USA. The US Government is now seeking to have him extradited from Britain. Under British law no person can be extradited for "political" crimes, but nevertheless the Home Office has wide powers of discretion. As in the case of Rudi Dutschke, the State can deem Cheng an 'undesirable alien" and ship him off to America if it so chooses.
There is obviously more at stake, however, than simply the political activity of Cheng himself (who was convicted in New York of conspiring to assassinate Chiang Kai-shek's son). For example, the US Government waited a year before they asked Sweden for mus extradinon. This can only be explained in the light of Nixon's visit to China and the subsequent attempts to appease the Chiang Kai-shek regime.
There is just a chance that an African country may grant Cheng asylum. If this is the case. then whether or not the Government chooses this option will depend largely on how much an 'example' is going to be made of this case in the light of growing emphasis on the whole question of 'international security" following Munich.
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