Denouncing the Chinese Communist Government is in no way a denunciation of the people of China. The Left tends to conflate matters of Principle with racial intolerance because Principles are foreign to its empty Ideology. Nothing better illustrates this fact than the ludicrous infatuation of Canada’s current Prime Minister with the totalitarian government of China.
I understand that style and substance overlap. But they are not synonymous. I would argue that while Trump’s style is certainly obnoxious, the substance of what he says has far more merit than the articulations of his Canadian counter part who, while certainly more obsequious and photogenic, is a simpleton of the very first order. Yet 99% of my Canadian friends absolutely loathe Trump while remaining relatively silent about the truly moronic aspects of Trudeau’s “progressive” dementia.
This is a man who famously said a few years back: “There’s a level of admiration I actually have for China.” What he was referring to was its government’s ability to get things done quickly and effectively. Of course, you simpleton, when a government has no respect for the Rights of the Individual, when each citizen is but a pawn in its “collectivist” plan, it is going to out perform those regimes subject to the messy actualities of Democracy!
Apparently the fact that “collectivism” inevitably entails the oppression if not annihilation of millions of dissenting Individuals is a paradox beyond the understanding of the average, simple-minded Socialist.
Since 1999 the Falun Gong, a peaceful spiritual movement founded in the early 90s, has been relentlessly persecuted by the Chinese Communist government, its goal of personal enlightenment seen as a threat to that government’s quest to make the State the source of all meaning and value. As of 2008, at least 3000 practitioners of the religion had been beaten, starved or tortured to death in labor camps designed to “re-educate” them. Their oppression continues to this day.
As does the oppression of the Uyghurs, a Turkic speaking ethnic minority in Northwest China whose numbers in “re-education” camps are at this moment somewhere in the vicinity of 1,000,000! Mostly Muslims, they too represent a threat to the atheistic hegemony of Communism.
In Hong Kong, recently ceded back to China, it is not Religion but its citizens’ love of that Personal Freedom engendered during British rule that has incited the authorities to their Draconian suppression of peaceful protests. As Oct. 1 marked the 71st anniversary of the installation of Chinese Communist Rule, thousands took to the streets of Hong Kong to express their disapproval, approximately 90 ending up in jail as a result of their “illegal” actions. Given that the Left habitually characterizes Western Civilization as the most oppressive force in all of history, I find it delightful that Hong Kong’s protestors frequently bear signs imploring their former British rulers to please, please come back!
The numbers cited above, of course, are nothing compared to the 45 million who were worked, starved or beaten to death in the 4 years following Mao’s Great Leap Forward which was initiated in 1958.
On the environmental front, while Canada is responsible for .04% of the earth’s marine pollution, China’s Yangtse River alone produces 55% of it!
But Canada continues to treat China as a treasured Friend!
Did you know that 38 municipalities in Canada are “twinned” with Chinese cities [Ottawa with Beijing, Montreal with Shanghai, Markham with Wuhan, etc., etc.] in an obvious symbolic gesture of solidarity?
Did you know that in mid July the Canadian government awarded a 6.8 million dollar contract to a state owned Chinese company to supply security equipment for 170 Canadian embassies worldwide?
Did you know that in early February, as awareness of the Corona Virus began to grow, Canada gifted approximately 16 tons of personal, protective equipment such as masks, gloves and goggles to the Chinese government, while just a few weeks later our medical community was lamenting our lack of the very same?
When that alt-Right monster Ezra Levant published his book “China Virus” which dared to criticize that country, Amazon, unhappy with its contents even though it was on its best sellers list, de-platformed it, though ultimately reinstating it a few months later.
And of course Canada’s two Michaels, imprisoned by Communist authorities in Dec. of 2018 for no justifiable reason whatsoever, continue to rot in their Chinese jail cells!
Can you imagine the outrage should any “conservative” express sympathy for the beliefs and policies of Hitler’s Nazi Germany? Chinese authorities brazenly lied to the World Health Organization which asserted on Jan. 14 that it had been assured there was no evidence of person-to-person transmission of the Corona Virus, indeed which told the world in early Feb. that there was no need for widespread travel bans. Only on Mar. 12 did it admit the dangers of what was a full blown pandemic.
How many thousands of lives were put in jeopardy by China’s duplicity? How vile is a regime which puts its economy and international reputation ahead of the welfare of the rest of the species? But that our current Prime Minister refuses to distance himself from the Chinese government is hardly an anomaly. As Communism represents the most radical expression of the Left’s infatuation with the notion of Government imposed Social/Economic Justice, it is granted almost universal exemption from rational scrutiny. Joe Biden celebrates China; indeed his son Hunter has profited mightily from his investments there. That those investments are with a regime only slightly less repulsive than that of Nazi Germany does not seem to be an issue with the idiot Left!