Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday (March 27) that the Chinese Communist Party‘s sanctions against two U.S. officials and a Canadian lawmaker are unacceptable, and he vowed to continue defending human rights.
Beijing‘s sanctions were announced after the U.S., European Union, U.K. and Canada imposed sanctions earlier this week against Communist Party officials and an entity in the West for violating the human rights of Uighur Muslims and other minorities in China’s Xinjiang region.
Trudeau called the Chinese Communist Party’s sanctions “unacceptable action. Trudeau tweeted, “We will continue to work with our international partners to defend human rights around the world.”
The targets of the CCP sanctions include Michael Chong, a Canadian Conservative MP and vice chair of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development (FAAE), the eight-member FAAE Subcommittee on International Human Rights, and Gayle Manchin, chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, vice chair Tony Perkins (R-AZ).
On February 22, Canada’s Parliament voted to pass a bill that would have found the Chinese Communist Party guilty of mass extermination of the Uighurs in Xinjiang. Zhuang Wenhao was one of the sponsors of the bill.
In an interview with New Tang Dynasty on March 18, Chuang expressed his hope that the Canadian government would recognize the motion and work with its allies to strengthen economic sanctions against the CCP.
Zhuang Wenhao said that the CCP’s human rights violations against vulnerable groups are not the only human rights violations committed by the CCP. For example, there have been unacceptable violations of Falun Gong, long-violated Tibetans, other ethnic minorities, and rights in Hong Kong, international treaties have also been violated, as well as threats and illegal detentions of Canadian citizens.
“The Chinese Communist Party poses a threat, an impact on Canadian citizens, companies, and a threat to our fundamental values, and will also pose a threat to the values that are prevalent within the United Nations system.” He said.
The Chinese Communist Party’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it is banning the people concerned and their immediate families from entering China as well as Hong Kong and Macau, and prohibiting Chinese citizens and institutions from dealing with them, effective immediately.
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