Chinese dissident who fled to South Korea by dinghy arrives in Canada
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this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2026
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Kind of hard to cross the Pacific in a dinghy. I'm sure his first target was "any civilized country".
mustve been hell of a pacific current.
Let's hope for him that China won't be able to fuck with his life too much in Canada; though at least AFAIK they don't just assassinate people on foreign soil like Russia does.
I remember how they used Chinese international students to harass that Uyghur girl in UoT for speaking up against genocide.
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.
That's scary...
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.
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...
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.
Yes, let's hope the best. Canada ranks among the Western countries most targeted by the Chinese government (as per Citizen Lab and other reports). Important ethnic Chinese organisations have been effectively taken over by Beijing, as have most Chinese language media. Chinese embassies and consulates monitor the Chinese ethnic community and coordinate United Front activities.
Addition:
... For 15 years, Eric worked for the 1st Bureau at China's Ministry of Public Security, a unit that specializes in surveillance of dissidents abroad. He previously told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. that he spied on a Japanese-based cartoonist and a YouTuber exiled in Australia. Often, he said, his cover was working for real companies in the countries where he was deployed — companies that collaborated with China's secret police.
For example, while on assignment in Cambodia, his cover was with the Prince Group, a multibillion-dollar conglomerate with interests in real estate and financial and consumer services. (The company did not reply to messages from Radio-Canada.)
they don’t just assassinate people on foreign soil like Russia does
And Indea.
sure, Don't go to BC and don't go to Waterloo, Ontario and stay far away from Spadina in Toronto.