We Don't Have to Trade With China

And yet ... :

In its attempt to discredit him, Beijing provided details that corroborate the account of a man who survived forced partial liver and lung removal.

(Sidebar: oops.)

In a rare public response, a string of Chinese state-run outlets and police bureaus carried a lengthy article attacking a Falun Gong practitioner, now in the United States, who came forward weeks earlier to publicly tell his story of having had parts of his liver and lung forcibly removed while in the Chinese prison system.

Cheng Peiming, 59, suffered six years of torture while in detention in communist China for practicing Falun Gong, a traditional spiritual belief espousing the values of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance that Beijing has tried to eliminate through a combination of propaganda, threats, and torture over the past 25 years.

Cheng said that in prison, guards force-fed him high-concentration salt water, attached chains to his limbs and stretched him almost to his limit, and subjected him to sessions of continuous electric shocks to his genitals, the same abuses reported by many imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners.

 

 

But Justin needs this "interference":

The head of the foreign interference commission says she is still pushing the government for records after the Liberals quietly released additional cabinet documents less than three weeks before the start of new public inquiry hearings.

For months, the Trudeau government and the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference (PIFI) have been arguing over an undisclosed number of documents and redactions withheld by Ottawa over claims of cabinet confidence.