The Chinese Embassy in Ottawa on Tuesday lectured Canada on its supposed hypocrisy for denouncing China’s ruthless suppression of the Hong Kong democracy movement in 2019, but using comparable iron-fisted techniques to smash the Flexibility Convoy protest movement in 2022.
Over the past few days, the Canadian police utilized pepper spray, stun grenades along with batons to strongly distribute “Flexibility Convoy” demonstrators that had actually dominated downtown Ottawa. The Canadian government called the demonstrators “a risk to democracy”.
— ChineseEmbassyOttawa (@ChinaEmbOttawa) February 22, 2022
“Back in 2019, when extreme components attacked the cops and wantonly interfered with public order in Hong Kong, the Canadian side asserted that it will “stand loudly and clearly for human rights all around the world” and wantonly slammed, maligned and smeared the Hong Kong police force,” the Chinese embassy recalled.
Cops face off with demonstrators participating in a protest arranged by truck chauffeurs opposing vaccine requireds on Wellington St. on February 19, 2022 in Ottawa, Ontario. (Alex Kent/Getty Images)
“In the eyes of some individuals in Canada, comparable protests and presentations must be described differently in different locations. In Hong Kong, they are a ‘human rights motion,’ but in Canada they are ‘a danger to democracy.’ Such stark double standard is inappropriate,” the embassy snidely concluded.
< img src ="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2022/02/GettyImages-1371366311-e1645615827482-1024x769.jpg"alt="OTTAWA, ONTARIO-FEBRUARY 18: A demonstrator is collared as the authorities start to separate a protest organized by truck chauffeurs opposing vaccine requireds on February 18, 2022 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada The drivers have utilized vehicles to form a blockade that
has actually obstructed numerous streets near Parliament Hill. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has actually conjured up the Emergencies Act in an effort to try to put an end to the demonstration that has nearly paralyzed a part of downtown Ottawa for 22 days. (Image by Scott Olson/Getty Images) “width=”1024″height= “769”/ > A demonstrator is apprehended as the cops begin to separate a protest organized by truck motorists opposing vaccine requireds on February 18, 2022 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) A Few Of the Canadians responding to China’s needling were eager to see their Freedom Convoy crackdown and raise them a Tiananmen Square massacre, while others dismissed China’s old rhetorical technique of drawing ethical equivalence in between its vicious political repression and the justice systems of more civilized nations. Chinese propagandists are constantly excited to take on controversies related to crime or cops operate in Western nations and tout them as proof that democracy is no less unfair than Beijing’s fascism.
After China imposed its high-handed “national security law” on Hong Kong to stamp out the democracy movement in 2020, Canada ended up being a popular location for Hong Kong refugees, especially Vancouver and Toronto.
Beijing and its puppet government in Hong Kong are progressively concerned with the “brain drain” brought on by gifted and flourishing Hong Kong residents leaving to Canada and other destinations.
Paradoxically, a few of these former Hong Kong citizens initially supported the stern measures taken versus the 2019 protesters, much as numerous Canadians support shutting down the Flexibility Convoy motion by any methods required– however the Hongkongers soon found out that crackdowns against dissent have a method of spreading, “emergency” steps become permanent, and today’s unassuming resident can quickly end up being tomorrow’s “insurrectionist.”