An elderly Canadian man uses a hammer to break the door sign of the Chinese Communist Consulate General in Vancouver, Canada, March 22, 2021. (Twitter video screenshot)
Recently, the Consulate General of the Chinese Communist Party in Vancouver, Canada has been attacked twice by unidentified people in a ventilated manner. The door sign of the Chinese Consulate was splashed with unknown liquid and graffiti was also painted. According to public opinion, the deliberate concealment of the outbreak of pneumonia and the use of hostage diplomacy to pressure the Canadian government have led to a growing anti-communist sentiment among Canadians.
Recently, Vancouver police released surveillance footage from the Chinese Consulate in a manhunt for suspects in two recent incidents.
According to Chinese media reports, the first incident occurred on March 22 this year. On that day, an elderly man driving a dark-colored Ford car appeared outside the Consulate General. The man got out of the car and walked straight up to the Consulate General’s door sign, spitting at it, then using a cup to splash an unknown white liquid on it, and smashing it with a hammer.
The man can be seen on the surveillance video footage holding out two pieces of paper that appear to have protest words written on them and deliberately showing them to the surveillance camera. When a car drove out of the Consulate General, the man deliberately blocked it with his own car and spat at the other car.
(Screenshot of the surveillance video released by Vancouver police)
(Screenshot of the surveillance video released by Vancouver police)
Vancouver police reported that the man involved was about 70 years old, with white hair, a thin build, wearing dark clothes, pants and shoes, and a dark baseball cap.
The second incident occurred around 3 p.m. on April 4. A middle-aged man carrying a dark duffel bag left the scene shortly after spraying some paint on the Consulate General’s door sign.
The suspect was described by Vancouver police as fat, about 30 to 40 years old, wearing a gray hooded shirt with a “Batman” design on the front and dark-coloured pants and shoes.
(Screenshot of surveillance video released by Vancouver police)
Deutsche Welle reported in mid-May 2020 that Canadians’ goodwill toward the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) dropped steeply in 2018, and what little goodwill remained plummeted in a “free-fall” after the outbreak of the CCP virus (COVID-19) spread around the world.
On December 1, 2018, Canadian police arrested Meng Wanzhou, vice chairman and chief financial officer of China’s Huawei, at the request of the U.S. government’s judicial agency for mutual assistance, which had requested her arrest on charges of bank fraud in Vancouver. In retaliation, the Chinese government then arrested Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor on charges of espionage as a means of pressuring the Canadian government to release Meng unconditionally.
This “hostage diplomacy” has caused a great deal of resentment among Western democracies, and Canadians’ favorable opinion of the Chinese Communist Party immediately dropped to 38% from 48% the previous year, and has declined year after year since then.
Following the outbreak of the CCP pneumonia epidemic in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, the Chinese Communist authorities concealed the epidemic, causing it to spread rapidly around the world, with Canadians also suffering. At the same time, Canadians’ favourable opinion of the Chinese Communist Party has accelerated.
A poll released by the Angus Reid Institute, a polling organization, on May 13, 2020, showed that 85% of respondents at that time had a negative view of the CCP; as many as 88% said the CCP could not be trusted on human rights and the rule of law; 78% opposed Huawei’s participation in Canada’s 5G infrastructure; and another 76% of respondents believe that human rights and the rule of law are more important than economic opportunities when dealing with the Chinese Communist Party.
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