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A Chinese political dissident who had fled to South Korea last month in a dinghy has arrived in Canada, his friend said on social media on Saturday.

Dong Guangping was aboard a 3.3-meter (10.8-foot) inflatable boat in the waters off a western South Korean island in May when he was detained by South Korea’s coast guard for allegedly violating the country’s immigration law. It was his fourth known attempt to flee China.

Appearing at a court hearing in South Korea, he told reporters that he hopes to go to Canada to reunite with his wife and daughters, who have already been resettled there, according to South Korean media.

In a post Saturday on X, his friend Sheng Xue, a Chinese Canadian activist, said Dong had landed in Toronto following an Air Canada flight on Friday.

“He just had a big bowl of noodles with eggs, tomatoes and shrimps,” she wrote in the post, adding that she has spent more than 10 years trying to get him out of China.

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If they live in the regions that had the Chinese "police" stations, they might get harassed. A friend of mine had a mainlander room mate till the Chinese police kept showing up and "urging" him to return home. One day he was just gone.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's scary...

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

There were a lot of articles last year about the Chinese police stations across Canada.

China tells their citizens they are Citizens of the World and have to obey Chinese policy even if they don't live in the homeland. Which includes no negative info about the homeland. They will threaten people, or their family back home to get compliance.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I remember reading about that. Everyone else seems to have amnesia though because whenever I bring it up they think I'm just being racist.

It's not surprising though, since we live in a world devoid of nuance. I guess I can't critique an oppressive nation-state actor for harassing an entire ethnicity which they think belongs to them. Apparently that's so racist of me...

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

Same issue here actually. A few people said I was being racist, even though I'd linked many news articles describing how these office fronts were setup across Canada and the investigation Canada took into complaints of China operating this way against Canadian residents.