We Don't Have to Trade With China

A communist country that has a history of oppressing its own people makes zero impression on the West:

The communist regime in China has become more active on both Twitter and Facebook to spread propaganda and disinformation in order to silence international condemnation of its persecution against Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang, according to a recent report.

The disinformation campaign was a joint effort between Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials, China’s state-run media, and pro-CCP online actors, according to a report published by think tank Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) on March 30.

The CCP is committing genocide against Uyghurs in China’s far-western Xinjiang region, subjecting them to forced sterilization, forced abortion, torture, forced labor, and the removal of children from their families. Additionally, the communist regime has detained more than one million Uyghurs in internment camps.

Beijing has defended these camps as “vocational training centers.” On March 31, at a daily briefing, Hua Chunying, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry, defended the genocide charge as an “allegation [that] maligns China’s ethnic policy and Xinjiang’s development and progress.”

While CCP officials and China’s state-run media can openly spread their messages on Facebook and Twitter, ordinary Chinese do not have access to the platforms as both are banned by the regime.

 

Also banned: 

Four intruders barged into the printing plant of the Hong Kong edition of The Epoch Times in the early hours of April 12, damaging computers and printing equipment. The attack is believed to be the latest effort by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to silence The Epoch Times. 

In an attack on the same facility in November 2019, four masked men set fire to two printing presses. The perpetrators behind the arson attack have remained at large. 

Cheryl Ng, a spokeswoman for the Hong Kong edition, said the intrusion was characteristic of the CCP and had the aim of silencing an independent outlet from reporting on topics that are taboo to the communist regime.

 

We all know who really runs this country:

The Trudeau government is being blasted for kowtowing to Beijing’s dictators once again, and I have to say, those doing the blasting are right.

This time the furor was triggered over the pressuring of a prestigious Canadian institution to not give an award to Taiwan’s president for fear of upsetting China’s government.

According to a story in Politico, with sources in both Ottawa and Washington, the Trudeau government threatened to pull funding and other supports from the prestigious Halifax International Security Forum if they gave an award to Tsai Ing-wen, the president of Taiwan.

Citing multiple sources, Politico said the fourm, one of the most prestigious in the world, was set to award the John McCain Prize for Leadership in Public Service to Tsai when the Trudeau government made the threat.

 

 

Was it something he said?:

China’s competition watchdog is adding staff and other resources as it ramps up efforts to crack down on anti-competitive behaviour, especially among the country’s powerful companies, people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. ...

On Saturday, the watchdog slapped a record $2.75 billion fine on Alibaba after an antimonopoly probe found the e-commerce giant had abused its dominant market position for several years.

 

Yeah, of course it did.