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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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[–] TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca -3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Are you under the impression that fleeing felons under warrant in other countries are given travel documents and allowed to exit before standing trial for their crimes?

What magical world do you live in?

...and FWIW, we have people in prison right now in Canada for violation of prohibited speech laws.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Duh, he's claiming asylum obviously from being a political prisoner. You don't ask permission to leave. Canada accepts lots of asylum seekers

[–] TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca -2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So you think it would be appropriate for another country to grant asylum to a Canadian citizen, if they fled prosecution for a Section 318 or 319 offense?

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If it was a human rights violation or clearly a political arrest. Just because a country can imprision you doesn't mean it is just.

Like thr UK arresting people for having a shirt that says Peace for Palistine, or making statements about the genocide happening. That's no really about a terror thrrwt its the leaders who've made stance alligiances wanting to continue to hold power.

[–] TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Got it, so YOUR country's government has the right to decide what people can and cannot promote publicly, but other countries do not.

I see you are big on nuance...

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The importing country decides based on human rights and other criteria. Do you not know how amnesty, asylum and refugee status works?

Its why those exist to protect political prisoners.

I feel like I'm talking with a paid Chinese bot.

[–] TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Interesting take that anyone who doesn't agree with the utility of western style representative democracy must be a spy or a robot...

Do you feel like elected officials in Canada speak to the needs and desires of the working class more often than not? Do YOU feel well represented in Ottawa?

If like 80% of Canadian citizens, you were born and raised here; have you ever taken any time to consider the miraculous coincidence that the system you were born into just happens to be the "right" one? Is that just luck of the draw for you, or is it possible you've been indoctrinated?

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I wasn't born in Canada, and didn't say one country has moral right, but there are human rights and international backed asylum. Countries on either side use it all the time.

[–] TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca -3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

...and again I ask; you are 100% confident that the prevailing world order, largely established by Britain, America, and NATO more broadly, is the lens through which we should view human good?

To paraphrase what you said earlier: just because a system exists doesn't mean it's just or right.

Doesn't it seem a little suspect that a thing isn't considered "bad" or objectionable until NATO members stop doing it?

The current world order was built on centuries of racism, oppression, slavery, and foreign interference; with a helping hand from 780,000,000,000 tonnes of atmospheric CO2 emission... Maybe we shouldn't see that perspective as the moral high ground?

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You drag in so many strawman non sequitor type stuff that I can't have this conversation with you. You are likely a paid social media account trying to cause trouble based on the pattern of speech

[–] TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Questions aren't strawmen... the opposite actually. Challenging my integrity because you disagree with me IS an ad hominem attack though.

The intellectual exercise of challenging your upbringing, indoctrination, and convictions is too much for a lot of people.

Characterize me however you need to in order to avoid those uncomfortable questions about your own bias though...Have a good one.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lol. Read your replies, every one you go off on another tangent.

[–] TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago

...another reply with an emotional appeal and no cogent perspective.

[–] Wataba@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

"Homosexual escaping execution in homophobic country is breaking the law."

You're a dirty rat.

[–] TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Homosexuality is not seditious.

Get your feelings under control.

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Yes. This happens, literally, every single day across the world. We even have a word for it. Asylum

So this begs the question, what magical world do you live in?