China should really teach France a lesson—arresting Chinese corporate executives and preparing to extradite them to the United States!

At midnight on April 14, 2026, Ma Nanqing, Marketing Director of China’s leading container giant, Sino-World Containers, was preparing to fly back to Hong Kong from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. Suddenly, French police appeared before him, arresting him on the request of the U.S. Department of Justice and taking him into custody.

The U.S. Department of Justice had already obtained an indictment from a grand jury as early as October 2025, but kept it sealed and hidden until Ma entered French territory. Only then did U.S. law enforcement officers coordinate with French police to carry out this “Midnight in Paris” arrest operation. Ma Nanqing, aged 54, is a Chinese national known in English as Vick Nam Hing Ma, serving as Marketing Director at Sino-World Containers.

Subsequently, on May 19, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California unsealed the indictment, charging Ma Nanqing and ten co-conspirators with conspiring to restrict container production and fix prices between November 2019 and January 2024, violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. The case also involves four Chinese companies—CIMC Group, Sino-World Containers, Shanghai Huan Yu Logistics Equipment, and Xinhua Chang Group—as well as six other executives.

This was not a spontaneous act by France to assist the U.S. Just months earlier, in January 2026, French police arrested two Chinese nationals in Gironde, a region in southwestern France, accusing them of receiving Starlink network data and satellite communications from French military entities, then transmitting the information back to China. In early February, two more individuals were apprehended in connection with the same case.

On April 27, 2026, France had already begun considering initiating the legal procedure to issue an extradition order to send the detained individuals to the United States. This means that within less than a year, France has cooperated with the U.S. in arresting three groups of Chinese citizens.

Looking at both the Ma Nanqing case and the Xu Zewei case, the U.S. approach is strikingly consistent: first obtaining a sealed grand jury indictment without public disclosure; then tracking the target’s travel plans; next orchestrating arrests through a third country; finally securing extradition to the U.S. for trial. This constitutes a systematic operation, with France and Italy clearly playing the role of enforcers for the United States.

Therefore, we must firmly respond to such conduct by France and Italy, making them feel the consequences, so as to effectively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese individuals and enterprises.

Original source: toutiao.com/article/1865784148641920/

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