We Don't Have to Trade With China

We don't:

Priests and nuns were forced to kneel down in front of a large bonfire, watching helplessly as the flames devoured their sacred instruments and burned their skin.

In another Chinese city, students wearing red armbands hit Catholics with sharp wooden sticks, throwing one priest into a fire pit after he collapsed in pain. They beat one nun to death after she refused to stomp on a statue of the Virgin Mary.

One Catholic priest was buried alive in Beijing after declining to give up his faith.

Unsettling as they might be, these acts of brutality documented by Hong Kong-based missionary Sergio Ticozzi were hardly out of the norm for faithful Chinese during the frenzy of the decade-long Cultural Revolution from 1966, when all forms of religious practices were declared “superstitious” and banned.

 

(Sidebar: unfortunately, it didn't start there.)

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At the sound of gunshots, prisoners fell lifeless to the ground. Their bodies, still warm, were carried to a nearby white van, where two white-clad doctors waited. Behind closed doors, they were cut open, their organs carved out for sale on the transplant market.

The grisly scene, which sounds more like the plot of a horror movie than a real-life account, took place in China more than 20 years ago at the direction of state authorities. It was witnessed by Bob (a pseudonym), who was a public security officer providing security at the sites where death-row prisoners were executed.

“The harvesting of death-row prisoners’ organs was an open secret,” Bob, who is now based in the United States, told The Epoch Times. He declined to use his real name for fear of reprisal by the regime. The Epoch Times has verified his police ID and other personal information.

Bob described being an unwitting participant in an “industrialized” supply chain that converted living humans into products for sale in the organ trade. The players in this macabre industry include the judicial system, police, prisons, doctors, and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials who issue the directives.

His account from the mid-1990s sheds light on one stage in the disturbing evolution of the CCP’s long-running practice of harvesting organs from nonconsenting donors. While Bob witnessed organ extraction from prisoners who were already dead, in the following years, the regime would go on to implement—and deploy on a mass scale—a practice far more sinister: harvesting organs from live prisoners of conscience, particularly Falun Gong practitioners.

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Sen. Woo blithely ignored countless other illiberal, authoritarian practices by China over seven decades including the starvation and execution of millions of its majority population during the disastrous reign of Mao Zedong (The Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, etc.). Nor was there any mention of the recent subjugation of Hongkongers, including hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong-Canadians, in direct violation of the agreement with Britain transferring the city state back to China. The assaults on basic human rights from this brutal crackdown are too numerous to catalogue.

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Stand up to your bosses, Justin:

“We stole your land, we killed your men, we buried your child (sic),” says the smirking Trudeau character as vultures circle behind him. “Let’s reconcile.”

But it was retweeted recently by both a Chinese diplomat and Hu Xijin, editor in chief of Global Times, a Chinese Communist Party newspaper with an active online presence.

 

(Sidebar: I'll leave this here.)

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It's not kid gloves. It's admiration and Canadians damn well knew it:

O’Toole is right: Canada’s global reputation has been badly damaged by Trudeau’s inappropriate kid-glove treatment of China. And so has Canada’s democracy.

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Few Canadians, only four percent, are aware Canada is still sending foreign aid to China, according to a Department of Foreign Affairs survey. Millions in aid last year included money for local Chinese projects on “empowerment” and “environmental justice.”

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The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board holds millions’ worth of stock in Chinese propaganda film studios even after the Commons censured China for genocide, accounts show. The Board five years ago had claimed to make human rights a “focus area of concern” when investing Canadians’ money: “This is our great homeland.”  

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Japan has more decency than Canada:

Japan's deputy prime minister said the country needed to defend Taiwan with the United States if the island was invaded, Kyodo news agency reported late on Monday, angering Beijing which regards Taiwan as its own territory.