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Subject: Re: [OT] Have you ever been critical of the Chinese government?
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:14:26 -0400
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On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 15:55:35 -0700
The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:25:16 -0400, shawn
> <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
> 
> >Yes, there's the potential of that happening but unless you are
> >actively protesting the CCP it is unlikely they care enough to arrest
> >foreigners passing through the country. It's going to stir up more
> >trouble for no real benefit. This is more likely meant to give their
> >people in countries like Canada more authority (cover) to go after
> >Chinese citizens who live in Canada and are protesting the Chinese
> >government.  
> 
> It's not just citizens of the PRC but anyone of Chinese ethnicity.
> 
> It's for this reason several Canadian Confucius Institutes have been
> closed as the Canadian government believes that as opposed to simply
> teaching French or German (as the Alliance Francaise and Goethe
> Institutes do) there's an intelligence recruitment operation and
> propagandizing taking place there - especially the ones that were
> based either on campuses or in close geographic proximity to campuses.
> It has also been suggested that 3rd and 4th generation Canadian
> Chinese have been targetted particularly those with family in HK or
> elsewhere in China. Despite that roughly 30% of ALL Canadian
> immigrants are from the PRC (and another 20-25% from India neither of
> which are currently "democracy friendly")

I was with you until you implied that India was not a democracy. Care
to explain? I know that Modi is a Hindu nationalist but he hasn't
suspended elections or blocked opponents from running in elections as
far as I know.


-- 
Rhino