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I'm sure there are cameras and one is easily recognized when getting out of the room.
Or is this just a 48h maneuver to clear up the political situation and then if needed move to one of the embassies in HK that is more supportive?
Maybe he was ignorant, maybe he was spot on. Maybe his hypothetical extradition will cause a sort-of diplomatic "mess" between Beijing and Honk Kong, leaving him a limbo where neither HK nor China will grant him total asylum but wont extradite him either
Isn't a luxury hotel the worst place to hide? I'm sure there are cameras and one is easily recognized when getting out of the room. Or is this just a 48h maneuver to clear up the political situation and then if needed move to one of the embassies in HK that is more supportive?
Depends if you think people want to kill you
Either that or he's no longer in Hong Kong, sort of like what McAfee did, tell everyone where he's at when he's really no longer there. So when Snowden tells the CIA their office is across the street, it's no more than a tactic to mislead the CIA.
Either that, or he hasn't thought this through at all and I find that hard to believe.
I would guess that he's not even in Hong Kong anymore, nor at the time of his interview.
He might have an insurance policy. After all, he had access to other data so if they lock him up, they risk problems bigger than they could ever imagine. He may have written a program that releases the information on a certain date. Or someone else has a backup and knows what to do with it. Either that or he's no longer in Hong Kong, sort of like what McAfee did, tell everyone where he's at when he's really no longer…
This is contradicted somewhat by a different source. This one says Hong Kong is a very good place to seek asylum right now, because there is a moratorium on deporting asylum-seekers: But there is at least one reason it could be incredibly shrewd: Hong Kong's asylum system is currently stuck in a state of limbo that could allow Snowden to exploit a loophole and buy some valuable time. Simon Young, director of the Cent…
> Hong Kong is the worst place in the world for any person to avoid extradition, with the possible exception of the United Kingdom I'm British, and this both saddens and angers me. It's time for a change.
I wouldn't worry too much about it, it is all politics and all selective. A lot of Russians fled to the UK to elude justice in Russia. Whether they are political refugees or indeed committed crimes back home is another matter, but London is certainly a safe harbour for many of them.