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Canada Say No To China Due To HK Asylum Seekers
Kuting Feng
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Beijing has warned Canada not to grant political asylum to Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters. China labels them as criminals. Saying that if Canada were to take them in, Beijing would consider it an act of interfering with its internal affairs.
On Thursday, China’s ambassador to Canada, Cong Peiwu urged Canadian officials to support China's crackdown. Saying:
“If the Canadian side really cares about the stability and the prosperity in Hong Kong, and really cares about the good health and safety of those 300,000 Canadian passport-holders in Hong Kong, and the large number of Canadian companies operating in Hong Kong SAR [Special Administrative Region], [Canada] should support those efforts to fight violent crimes.”
But Canada’s foreign affairs minister, François-Philippe Champagne, called the Chinese ambassador’s message “totally unacceptable and disturbing”.
Champagne explained that he's “instructed Global Affairs to call the Ambassador in." He said that's: "to make clear, in no uncertain terms, that Canada will always stand up for human rights and the rights of Canadians around the world.”
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