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Good on ya: Australia is bravely showing Canada the pain and promise of a principled approach to Beijing
A report by Amnesty International described Ottawa’s approach as “piecemeal and largely ineffective,” while witnesses before the Commons Special Committee on Canada-China Relations have described police and counterintelligence operations in similarly scathing terms.
Canada, it is true, has come under severe pressure by the Chinese government due to the matter of Huawei’ CFO. Two Canadian citizens, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, remain prisoners of the regime, nearly two years after their abduction. Restrictions have been placed on Canadian exports of beef and canola.
But Australia has been subject to all this and more. Its citizens have been victims of Chinese “hostage diplomacy” and a long list of its exports have either been hit with tariffs or effectively banned from the Chinese market.
Indeed, Australia has been “spearheading the crusade against China” in the United Nations and other international forums. Despite the fact that Australia has just two-thirds Canada’s population, and is far more dependent on Chinese trade.
Solidarity with our Australian cousins is the bare minimum that should be expected.
Source: The Globe and Mail #Nov22
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-good-on-ya-australia-is-bravely-showing-canada-the-pain-and-promise/
#CanadaChina #Australia #China
A report by Amnesty International described Ottawa’s approach as “piecemeal and largely ineffective,” while witnesses before the Commons Special Committee on Canada-China Relations have described police and counterintelligence operations in similarly scathing terms.
Canada, it is true, has come under severe pressure by the Chinese government due to the matter of Huawei’ CFO. Two Canadian citizens, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, remain prisoners of the regime, nearly two years after their abduction. Restrictions have been placed on Canadian exports of beef and canola.
But Australia has been subject to all this and more. Its citizens have been victims of Chinese “hostage diplomacy” and a long list of its exports have either been hit with tariffs or effectively banned from the Chinese market.
Indeed, Australia has been “spearheading the crusade against China” in the United Nations and other international forums. Despite the fact that Australia has just two-thirds Canada’s population, and is far more dependent on Chinese trade.
Solidarity with our Australian cousins is the bare minimum that should be expected.
Source: The Globe and Mail #Nov22
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-good-on-ya-australia-is-bravely-showing-canada-the-pain-and-promise/
#CanadaChina #Australia #China
The Globe and Mail
Opinion: Good on ya: Australia is bravely showing Canada the pain and promise of a principled approach to Beijing
The land Down Under may be getting beat down for standing up to China, but that punishment is coming for the rest of the West, too – whether the Trudeau government chooses to stop being a docile naif or not
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Swedish Website Publishes #PoliticalCartoon, Mocking the "Unsportsmanlike behaviour by Beijing"
A satirical cartoon drawn by artist Niklas "Kludd-Niklas" Eriksson was published on a Swedish website Kinamedia.
The cartoon goes with the title "Unsportsmanlike behaviour by Beijing," referring to how the Chinese Community Party (#CCP) deployed different means to silence the country's own top tennis athlete #PangShuai.
As one of the most well-known female tennis player from China, Pang in early November 2021 disclosed on social media that CCP's former Vice Premier #ZhangGaoli had coerced her into sex at his home, in the presence of his wife. The social media post was soon removed and Pang has not been seen in public since then.
Source: KinaMedia #Nov22
https://kinamedia.se/2021/11/22/satir-osportsligt-av-peking/
#Scandal #MeToo #SexualAbuse #Tennis #VicePremier
A satirical cartoon drawn by artist Niklas "Kludd-Niklas" Eriksson was published on a Swedish website Kinamedia.
The cartoon goes with the title "Unsportsmanlike behaviour by Beijing," referring to how the Chinese Community Party (#CCP) deployed different means to silence the country's own top tennis athlete #PangShuai.
As one of the most well-known female tennis player from China, Pang in early November 2021 disclosed on social media that CCP's former Vice Premier #ZhangGaoli had coerced her into sex at his home, in the presence of his wife. The social media post was soon removed and Pang has not been seen in public since then.
Source: KinaMedia #Nov22
https://kinamedia.se/2021/11/22/satir-osportsligt-av-peking/
#Scandal #MeToo #SexualAbuse #Tennis #VicePremier