Snowden will never be safe. all he is for these countries, is a bargaining chip. Countries want him because they will use him to get some type of concession from the U.S.    China, in bad faith, allowed him to leave. His passport was revoked by the US, the extradition process was started. China's whole excuse that the US didn't file the papers properly, so they let him go, is a LIE. Even in good faith, the normal procedure would be to keep him there solely because of the request in the first place, regardless of any errors.     Why did china do this? because they already got what they wanted from snowden: copies of all the US data he stole. They're not spending any more resources on dealing with this issue.     People should be PISSED at china's backhanded response. But that's OK china, because if you ever need a favor or need someone extradited....guess what....we're going to point back to snowden and BAM, there isn't going to be anything you can cry about! And trust me, it WILL come back around to that as some point in the future. Then we'll be the ones laughing in china's face, and they won't be able to do anything but sit there and take it.     Here's snowden in a nut shell:    bought by china to be a double agent, deliberately gets himself transferred to the NSA branch in hawaii, which just so happens to do all the surveillance on china, starts leaking documents here and there for his new chinese handlers, NSA starts investigating snowden for possible espionage and gets close to having enough evidence to arrest him, snowden knows the NSA is investigating him and close to catching him, panic's and flee's to china and releases public statements about PRISM under the guise of being a whistleblower, when in reality his real target was to leak information the US had about china, to his chinese handlers. chinese handlers then get a copy of all the data he stole while in hong kong, then send him on his way out of the country to be someone elses problem.     You think russia will protect him? think again. Russia will negotiate some demands from the US, and BAM...snowden is sent back to the states to face charges.    snowden is not a hero. he's a double agent that sold himself to the chinese, who promptly kicked him to the curb. now he has NOTHING left but to continue the lie that he is a hero.     let this be a lesson to all double agents out there: your handlers don't give a DAMN about you. once they get what they want, you're useless to them. the saddest part of it all, is they kicked snowden to the curb without even paying him for his services to them! what an idiot.