Thread by @XiranJayZhao

Omg so in China "ruining a soldier's marriage" is a jailable crime but I just saw a case where a soldier wants to sue his wife for having an affair...except it's with a woman, so if he wants the charge to stick the state has to legally recognize same-sex relationships 😭😭

I highly, highly doubt it would happen or that the case would even go to court but IMAGINE if same-sex partnerships get recognized in China just so they can jail this woman for wrecking a soldier's home 😭😭😭

IMAGINE IF THIS WAS HOW IT HAPPENED

and yes if you mess around with a PLA soldier's spouse they WILL throw you in jail

article about it: scmp.com/news/people-cu…

The comments about this case are pretty overwhelmingly "WELL you can't jail someone for something you refuse to admit exists ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

Some more details: the women were living together while the soldier was deployed, then he found chat logs of them calling each other wifey and talking about having a kid via surrogacy overseas -

- but this isn't illegal unless the court rules that two non-related women can have a relationship more intimate than friendship, which Chinese law doesn't currently recognize.

HOWEVER the dude told the women he'll try and sue anyway unless they give him 200k RMB (27K USD) -

- SO they can actually counter-sue him for extortion. I saw this case cause one of them asked a popular lawyer for advice

they're still in the threatening to sue each other stage so idk how this will pan out, but if I were the lawyer I'd go for the Gal Pal defense so fast

And btw the lawyer's first reaction was to say the women wouldn't be liable because it's state policy to not recognize same-sex relationships but then he kind of backtracked bc the state is also really keen about protecting soldiers. So even he isn't sure how a court would rule