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Canada-China Relations committee Thank you for this opportunity to testify before the committee. It's really an honour and a challenge to follow the witnesses who offered such powerful, expert views last week and this morning, in particular in highlighting the ongoing critical developments in Hong Kong that will
August 17th, 2020Committee meeting
Sharon Hom
Canada-China Relations committee I won't say everything I could say, Mr. Williamson, but thank you so much for that question. Hong Kong is indeed the golden goose, but Beijing does not keep that golden goose on a free-range farm. That's number one. Unless the renminbi replaces the U.S. dollar as the major curre
August 17th, 2020Committee meeting
Sharon Hom
Canada-China Relations committee Mr. Harris asked this morning about how we move China into a rules-based system and about how we get China moving more to where we want it to go.
August 17th, 2020Committee meeting
Sharon Hom
Canada-China Relations committee I think the question is not where we want it go. It's how we support Hong Kong people to get the Hong Kong government to be where they want it to go. It's not what the U.S., the west, or the multilaterals want; it's what we want. I think that's the question.
August 17th, 2020Committee meeting
Sharon Hom
Canada-China Relations committee Thank you. On July 5, Human Rights in China released a bilingual, annotated version with initial comments on the law, and we can send you that. We are now preparing an updated annotation on surfacing all of the translation problems, with comments. We'll be happy to send you that
August 17th, 2020Committee meeting
Sharon Hom
Canada-China Relations committee Thank you. I wasn't casting any imperialist intentions on anyone through those questions, but, apropos of the question, which is relevant, as of July 7, 2020, there were 15,246,481 people who had participated in 1,096 protests. This is all being documented and tracked on a regul
August 17th, 2020Committee meeting
Sharon Hom
Canada-China Relations committee I can't presume to be inside the mind of authoritarian General Secretary Xi Jinping, but clearly Taiwan was in the minds of the Chinese leaders in 1984. The whole idea of one country, two systems was so that Taiwan would be convinced that this was the solution to the reunificatio
August 17th, 2020Committee meeting
Sharon Hom
Canada-China Relations committee I need to retire for real so that I can reflect on the whole experience of the past many years. Just quickly, one thing that's very important from the training work I did on the mainland is that you need to build the personnel infrastructure. You don't just build rule of law wi
August 17th, 2020Committee meeting
Sharon Hom
Canada-China Relations committee That's a terrific question and a terrific place to look. Canada was involved in many legal exchanges, rule of law exchanges, just like the U.S. and just like the EU. In those legal exchanges, if you're going to engage and do something helpful, then think about technical support.
August 17th, 2020Committee meeting
Sharon Hom
Canada-China Relations committee Thank you, Mr. Genuis. I'm so sorry I missed meeting with you in February when I was speaking in Vancouver. I'm so glad I get to finally see and meet you, and I hope we have some follow-up opportunity. First, there are actually downstream positive effects for everyone in the mov
August 17th, 2020Committee meeting
Sharon Hom
Canada-China Relations committee I agree with Mr. Kaeding that they should be as broad as possible on targeted individuals, and those would be individuals who are in the United Front, in the police, in the administration of the the Hong Kong SAR. I also want to direct you to the fact that extensive lists of in
August 17th, 2020Committee meeting
Sharon Hom
Canada-China Relations committee I think that if we say that 7.4 million people in Hong Kong are quite diverse, certainly over a billion people are also quite diverse—
August 17th, 2020Committee meeting
Sharon Hom
Canada-China Relations committee You should keep in mind that when you see mainlanders being interviewed on public TV, you should be aware of what they can say. Of course, some of them actually do believe in wolf-warrior diplomacy, but I also believe that when anyone is speaking on TV, any forced confession will
August 17th, 2020Committee meeting
Sharon Hom
Canada-China Relations committee I'm not an economist or an expert on any of those things. We haven't taken any really strong position on general sanctions, because I think that requires expertise beyond that of human rights. However, one of the Confucius Institutes that is about to close down exports lobster to
August 17th, 2020Committee meeting
Sharon Hom
Canada-China Relations committee I'm urging you to pay attention to the situation of those who choose to remain or can't leave. That's what I meant.
August 17th, 2020Committee meeting
Sharon Hom