Foreign affairs minister says China executed four Canadians

[JoeB131]

What a former generation experienced shouldn't be the impetus to persecuting another generation of citizens. You can remember and learn from the history, but you can't live in this history.

They seem far too willing to execute Canadians in particular which has to be very unsettling for Canadian authorities. Nations don't respect us as they once did, this much is clear.

Or just don't go over there and sell drugs. That's a crazy idea.

 

[JoeB131]

It only comes up the moment, these former suppressors or war-criminals - try to lecture China whilst trying to use occurrences in China to destabilize the country. Japan is one of these and therefore also gets regularly bashed by South and North-Korea.

 

[JoeB131]

 

[Crepitus]

I'm not so sure about that. China doesn't allow "duel citizenship". This is something my wife and I have discussed: if she becomes a US Citizen in two years, she will have to give up her Chinese citizenship.

China doesn't recognize it. They considered these prisoners to be Chinese citizens.

I am not condoning what they did, just correcting the OP.

 

[ThirdTerm]

Joly says the families have asked the government not to provide any details of the identity of the four individuals.

The four spent some time in Canada to obtain Canadian citizenship but they are ethnically Chinese. If they were white Canadians, they would be freed.

China's embassy in Ottawa has confirmed executions of four dual Canadian-Chinese citizens for drug offences.

China executes 4 dual Canadian citizens despite Ottawa’s plea for clemency

China’s embassy in Ottawa has confirmed executions of four dual Canadian-Chinese citizens for drug offences.

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