cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/55297201
A Chinese political dissident who had fled to South Korea last month in a dinghy has arrived in Canada, his friend said on social media on Saturday.
Dong Guangping was aboard a 3.3-meter (10.8-foot) inflatable boat in the waters off a western South Korean island in May when he was detained by South Korea’s coast guard for allegedly violating the country’s immigration law. It was his fourth known attempt to flee China.
Appearing at a court hearing in South Korea, he told reporters that he hopes to go to Canada to reunite with his wife and daughters, who have already been resettled there, according to South Korean media.
In a post Saturday on X, his friend Sheng Xue, a Chinese Canadian activist, said Dong had landed in Toronto following an Air Canada flight on Friday.
“He just had a big bowl of noodles with eggs, tomatoes and shrimps,” she wrote in the post, adding that she has spent more than 10 years trying to get him out of China.
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According to you?
Your moral code should define the legal codes for all humankind? Do you not believe in the right to self-determination?
It’s a little more than some rando on Lemmy that says that what happened to him is wrong, y’know. What happened to him is a clear violation of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights—Article 19, if I’m not mistaken. That means that a good chunk of the world agrees that it’s wrong.
…And a good chunk of the world has colonial capitalism and centuries of out-group exploitation to thank for whatever prosperity their nation enjoys. Also, a good chunk of the world’s high-idealed systems would undoubtedly crumble under the weight of 1,400,000,000 people.
I’m not saying that everything China does is how I would like to see things done; but I suspect we could agree that letting dissension fester until radicals storm your houses of government and compromise your elections isn’t a workable solution either.
As a secular humanist, I have to weigh the casualties of a system against the good it provides its body populace. With most liberal western democracies currently facing extreme wealth disparity, working class desperation, and some level of existential crises over ideological extremism; maybe we should reserve some level of judgement until WE have lifted 800,000,000 people out of poverty.
I’m not sure that any of the ongoing experiments in absolute individual liberty are going particularly well…
Yet you seem to think the current Chinese government’s legal code should define morality for all humankind? lol
hes a tankie of course.
Where did I say that?
Also, morality is entirely subjective.