Playing the \u0022racism card\u0022 is not going to forestall the inevitable reckoning. So we should all just grow up and get on with it.
Beijing’s hyperactive United Front Work Department expends massive resources in cultivating deep ties to the super-rich elements in the Mandarin bloc, while at the same time bullying and intimidating the diaspora’s reformists, Uyghur refugees, pro-democracy Hongkongers, Falun Gong adherents and defenders of Taiwanese autonomy.
This is a lashing-out tactic Beijing’s emissaries routinely employ in order to shut people up — express concern about Beijing’s unseemly influences in the establishment circles of a western country and you’re a racist. It’s a grossly dishonest defence mechanism that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau himself stoops to deploy as a matter of routine.
Last month, following an explosive report that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service had warned Trudeau’s senior campaign officials that Don Valley North MP Han Dong was a “witting affiliate” of a Beijing-funded election-campaign network, rather than confirm or deny the reports: “One of the things we’ve seen unfortunately over the past years is a rise in anti-Asian racism linked to the pandemic, and concerns being arisen around people’s loyalties.
While this idea appealed to some historically illiterate white “social-justice” hobbyists, ethnic Chinese activists who are targeted by the United Front’s intimidation tactics, and others who spent years fighting for head tax redress, were less than impressed. The veteran Vancouver campaigner Bill ChuThis advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
The reports “have been based on selectively leaked classified documents from anonymous sources” that should be understood as rumours, Woo says. A deep-state plot, in other words. “And what of the revelations? They are based largely on the observation that Canadian politicians, myself included, have had interactions with Chinese officials in the country.”Article content
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