extraterritoriality

I understand that western powers in China and Japan insisted that there subjects / citizens could not be tried by local courts. There was an incident in 1784 where a British ship firing a salute killed two men on a fishing boat. The Chinese had the gunner executed! Apparently that lead for calls...

I noted in the US Ambassador to Libya's death thread that several people mentioned that the US Embassy was US sovereign territory. This is not meant to rehash the events of that thread, but to point out that this is a common misconception. Embassies are not considered sovereign territory of the...