Terry Glavin: Two new reports shed blinding light on China's crimes. Will the Liberals ignore them?
The Trudeau government’s reluctance to stand up to Beijing can’t be explained away by the predicament of the two Michaels, genocide expert says
Author of the article: Terry Glavin
Publishing date: Mar 10, 2021 • March 10, 2021 • 5 minute read •
Uyghur women from East Turkestan demonstrate to ask for news of relatives and to express their concern about the ratification of an extradition treaty between China and Turkey, near the Chinese consulate in Istanbul on March 8, 2021, during International Women's Day.
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Every year since 1973, the venerable American non-profit Freedom House organization has been tracking the trajectory of freedom and democracy around the world, and every year for the past 15 years, democracy has been in decline. Last year was the worst year since democracy’s global retreat began. The Freedom House report for 2020 sheds a blinding light on the culpability of Xi Jinping’s China in this state of affairs, and the complicity of countries like Canada in democracy’s worldwide rout.