Canada-China Relations committee  There are a lot of ways they can do it. Indirectly, they can appoint a board of directors, as China has done with South China Morning Post. Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, bought the South China Morning Post and appointed a pro-China board of directors. As a result, they have pr

Canada-China Relations committee  I want to give you an example. There was an article by Bloomberg a few weeks ago documenting how Huawei got to where they are today. They stole technology from Nortel through 20 people who had leaked all the technology, whether intentionally or not. They also purchased the rest o

Canada-China Relations committee  I just want to say that every single pro-Hong Kong rally that was peaceful was met with counter-demonstrations, organized probably by the Chinese consulates and also a lot of international students, or even Canadian residents, who are what we call “Ferrari-driving students”, who

Canada-China Relations committee  I want to defer to Avvy Go on this. I think she's more of an expert in terms of the legality as to what a high commissioner can do in Hong Kong.

Canada-China Relations committee  I will speak to that.

Canada-China Relations committee  I believe that, as of July 1, the Hong Kong people have it worse than the Chinese citizens in mainland China. This is an anecdote, but this is something very true. In the past, I have not seen as much censorship and self-censorship imposed on Chinese citizens as we can see in Hon

Canada-China Relations committee  I will go first.

Canada-China Relations committee  On behalf of the Toronto Association for Democracy in China, I wish to thank the committee for this series of hearings on the situation in Hong Kong. For too long, we believed that China would abide by international rules of engagement and diplomatic civility as far as respect f