Juno News - May 29, 2021


Trudeau plays into Communist China propaganda


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717

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The Chinese Communist Party regime in Beijing has been very good at pointing out or trying to argue that anybody who criticizes China is racist. They've said that we should be careful not to play into China's propaganda and that criticism of China should be seen as anti-Asian racism. Justin Trudeau's response to a question from Conservative MP Candice Bergen about China's military secrets being shared with the People's Liberation Army is a perfect example of this.

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00:00:00.000 One of the things that the Chinese Communist Party regime in Beijing has been very good
00:00:11.260 at doing recently is pointing out or trying to argue that anybody who criticizes China
00:00:17.140 is racist. They're engaging in racism. I think they've studied the conversations around racism
00:00:23.000 and how accusations on social media to that effect abound. They've said, this is a good
00:00:27.580 thing that we can do, we can use to stop people from criticizing a lot of the policies that we're
00:00:32.980 doing. Don't play into their propaganda though. Pretty obvious what they're doing there, isn't it?
00:00:37.640 Well, I don't know. Justin Trudeau seems to be playing into their propaganda. Conservative MP
00:00:41.640 Candace Bergen, she asked a question in the House of Commons of the Prime Minister the other day
00:00:45.980 talking about work Canadian research secrets being shared with the People's Liberation Army and what
00:00:52.380 that means for national security issues and so forth. Very important conversation to be had
00:00:56.820 wherever the conversation goes. We got to talk about those issues more and a lot of national
00:01:01.400 security experts from a whole lot of countries are talking about those very concerns. What did Trudeau
00:01:06.960 do? Did he address the issue? No, of course he didn't. He actually talked about a rise in anti-Asian
00:01:13.160 racism and suggested that Candace Bergen's question may in fact be playing into all of that. So, you know,
00:01:19.680 do not be racist was basically his response to her when she asked a question about national security
00:01:25.220 issues related to China's military and China's government. What on earth is going on here?
00:01:30.800 Look, folks, I take great interest in what's happening in China right now and I don't care 1.00
00:01:34.080 what some guy who can never find China on a map has to say about what's going on in China. I care
00:01:38.920 about people who know what's happening on the ground in China. I care about what they have to say,
00:01:43.380 their insights on the issues and there's a lot of people from all walks of life who are experts on
00:01:48.060 China but there's also a lot of people from Taiwan, from Hong Kong, from mainland China who have a lot of
00:01:54.560 insights on what's happening on the ground in China and a lot of concerns and they are ringing
00:01:59.440 the alarm bells as in some of the people in Canada who are most critical of the Chinese government,
00:02:06.100 the regime, Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party, they are persons of Asian heritage themselves or
00:02:11.740 persons from China or their parents were from there and so forth and we should be really respecting
00:02:16.540 those people's voices and listening to what they have to say and would the Prime Minister dare
00:02:20.980 accuse them of being racist? I mean it's a question that must be asked and a number of MPs actually in
00:02:26.660 the House of Commons who are of Asian heritage and have some concerns with what China is doing,
00:02:30.800 they took great offense to what Justin Trudeau was saying and they actually accused him of playing
00:02:35.300 into China's propaganda. Now I think Justin Trudeau probably knows what he's doing which is he's just
00:02:41.920 trying to play partisan games, doesn't want to answer the question directly because it will make him look
00:02:46.180 bad and they can turn and say oh you're racist to just try and you know make the conservatives look
00:02:50.600 bad but not everybody is aware of that fact that some of the people who are ringing the bell
00:02:55.860 the loudest about problems with China are persons of Asian heritage themselves and well actually here's
00:03:01.680 the other problem maybe I'm wrong maybe Justin Trudeau doesn't actually understand the issue as
00:03:07.920 broadly as I'm giving him credit for. Maybe he does not realize that there are a lot of people,
00:03:13.360 a lot of people who have come to Canada from China, from Hong Kong, places like Taiwan who really want
00:03:20.280 to talk about some of the problems going on in China and that it is just not as simple as admiring
00:03:26.960 their basic dictatorship. That there's actually a lot of stuff going on on the ground that a lot of
00:03:33.500 people have some concerns about and I really hope the Prime Minister spends more time listening to
00:03:38.800 those very wise voices.
00:03:43.360 Thank you.
00:03:44.360 Thank you.