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Canadian rights group joins international community calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to place human rights at the core of Canada–China relations (www.vssdm.org)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/48982152

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.

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[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The hypocrisy. I never saw all those article about Canada deepening relations with UAE who support the genocide in Sudan

[–] Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I am among the -supposedly most- here on Lemmy who don't defend UAE and any other crimes.

Comments like yours always work in one direction here on Lemmy: defending China, or at least distracting from the Chinese government's crimes by just shouting out "Gaza" or "Israel" or "UAE" or anything like that.

It never goes the other way, though. There are many posts here calling out Israel and the US and the UAE, for example (and you are free to post on your own, btw), 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 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

This is not what I talk about. I talk about canadian complicity in many genocides and human right abuses. Ton of people claim to be against human right abuses till it is shown that their countries are involved and stsrt making excuses

[–] Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Go and make the same whataboutisms to call out China, Iran, Russia. You don't do that. It's you who is making excuses, not others.

If you don't bring up new arguments, I end this discussion.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I am not a hypocrite like you with selective care about human right abuses

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I call out chinese and russian human right abuses. You are the hypocrite not me and what i said is not whataboustism. You also don't have a single argument to what I said