Juno News - December 01, 2019
Justin Trudeau is too afraid to speak up on Hong Kong and Huawei
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Summary
Pressure is mounting on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to speak up on the Hong Kong democracy movement and the Huawei 5G network in Canada, two of the biggest issues that have been on his mind since the election of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
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Pressure is mounting for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to do something or even just say something
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on two of the biggest issues related to the China file. Hong Kong democracy movement,
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a huge issue now around the world, particularly since they had those district council elections
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and pro-democracy anti-Beijing candidates won a whopping 90% of the seats there. Now that's
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sort of equivalent to local city councilors so they don't have a say on the national level and
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there's really not much democratic lever that gives the people of Hong Kong responsibility
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for their national politics. They can't elect a sort of president or prime minister to see them
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completely segue away from China as much as it seems they would like that but they won the seats
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that they could. A lot of people celebrating this around the world, politicians from around the world
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including President Donald Trump making it clear that he stands with the people in Hong Kong,
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hasn't always done the most perfect tweets and messages on it. I would have preferred he said
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some things differently. Democrats also standing up for that. Republicans, bipartisan backing of this
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issue. And then we have Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who seems like the Sunnyways agenda tells you
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there isn't a single progressive cause out there he will not immediately virtue signal over
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except for this. Relative silence. I mean it's like it's like getting blood from a stone. There's been
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a couple little muted comments here and there but that's about it. This great champion of all
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things liberal values, well he's MIA on the Hong Kong file. Is it really just because he's that
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nervous about the China file, doesn't know what to do, is so flummoxed by it, does not want to
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ruffle feathers? Their new ambassador, Kong Pei Wu, we talked about this before, he said at a media
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round table on Canadian soil that Canadians should together denounce the pro-democracy activists. Man,
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this guy has some cojones. And real national leadership would see someone in the liberal
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government saying, hey buddy, pull back the leash on that. Are you kidding us? No thank you. Not on our
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watch. Not in this country. Don't say things like that. We reject those calls. Instead, he's getting a
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free ride. And just like the former Chinese ambassador to Canada, it seems like he can say
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whatever he wants with impunity. He's also saying, Huawei, you got to accept it. We've been hearing
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that more and more. The former ambassador saying it, the current one saying, look, you know, don't
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cause any more trouble in the Huawei file. Meanwhile, we had Richard O'Brien, who's Trump's national
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security advisor, attending a conference in Halifax last weekend here on Canadian soil saying, guys,
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you've got to reject Huawei. The calls just increase. Oh, and by the way, there was that
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defector from the Chinese government. I mean, we're talking about defectors here. I mean, this is like
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Cold War scenario again. A defector from China making his way over to Australia, bringing a lot
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of knowledge and files with him. And one of the things he said is that, yes, the Chinese government
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does mobilize listed companies, meaning corporations that are not state-owned enterprises, or they're
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supposedly not state-owned enterprises. Well, looky here. Apparently, they do get some of them to do
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their bidding. Dare I say, could Huawei be one of them? Well, that is what has been alleged, a concern
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that has been raised by many. So again, going back to the Liberal government, Ralph Goodale, former
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public safety minister, he had said before the election that the decision would be made after the
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election. Did you mean imminently after? How soon after? Bill Blair has the file now. Is he going to rise
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to the occasion? They keep saying, we will look at all the facts. We will do a full study of it all.
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Okay, fine. We don't want to rush these things. We don't want to be hysterical here, but we kind of
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have a lot of facts here. And I think the facts show it's not worth the risk. Are we going to see an
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announcement from soon? They should be banning Huawei. Maybe we'll see a soft announcement late
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Friday at 5pm saying, uh-oh, we've actually accepted Huawei into the construction of our 5G
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grade. Lots of pressure on for Justin Trudeau to finally speak up on either of these issues,
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Hong Kong or Huawei. Seems like he's too afraid to do either.