Open Letter calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to place human rights at the core of Canada–China relations
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The Vancouver Society in Support of Democratic Movement is honoured to co-sign this open letter and to stand with members of the Canadian Coalition on Human Rights in China. We wish to express our deep concern regarding Prime Minister Carney’s forthcoming visit to China. At a time of escalating human rights abuses and transnational repression, we believe it is imperative that Canada’s highest political leadership place human rights at the forefront of all high-level engagement with the Chinese g

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The Vancouver Society in Support of Democratic Movement signed an open letter and to stand with members of the Canadian Coalition on Human Rights in China.

“We wish to express our deep concern regarding Prime Minister Carney’s forthcoming visit to China,” a statement reads

At a time of escalating human rights abuses and transnational repression, we believe it is imperative that Canada’s highest political leadership place human rights at the forefront of all high-level engagement with the Chinese government.

Canadian PM Mark Carney is on a state visit in China. Back in April, Mr. Carney said China is the largest threats with respect to foreign interference in Canada and is an emerging threat in the Arctic.

  • ThreeskittiesinatrenchcoatEnglish
    3·
    8 hours ago

    This kind of thing is only effective if it’s universal and I would support it on those grounds

    It’s not a whataboutism, it’s hypocrisy. At no point do I justify the actions of China or Israel, just stating the fact that harping at one while ignoring the other is hypocrisy.

    • Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
      12·
      1 hour ago

      Call it whatever you want, but these kinds of comments always work in one direction: defending China, or at least distracting from the Chinese government’s crimes by just shouting out “Gaza” or “Israel” or “UAE” or anything that.

      It never goes the other way, though. There are many posts here calling out Israel and the US, for example, but there you don’t see such comments saying, "But China’s genocide … "

      What you are doing is widespread here in the Lemmyverse. It’s some sort of “the West bad, China bad okay” stance. I call this whataboutism. It shows your hypocrisy.

      @mrdown@lemmy.world

      [Edit typo.]

      • mrdown@lemmy.world
        11·
        46 minutes ago

        If you posted a source from a human right organizations that condemn and reporting human right abuses everywhere about chinese human right abuses I would have no problem with it. But a media don’t care about canadian involvments in human right abuses everywhere except Chianese human right abuses you bet I would call out the hypocrisy.