A Chinese political dissident who fled to South Korea last month in a dinghy has arrived in Canada. His friend announced the news on social media on Saturday.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/55297201

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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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  • TimothyOilpants@lemmy.ca
    14·
    2 days ago

    …and again I ask; you are 100% confident that the prevailing world order, largely established by Britain, America, and NATO more broadly, is the lens through which we should view human good?

    To paraphrase what you said earlier: just because a system exists doesn’t mean it’s just or right.

    Doesn’t it seem a little suspect that a thing isn’t considered “bad” or objectionable until NATO members stop doing it?

    The current world order was built on centuries of racism, oppression, slavery, and foreign interference; with a helping hand from 780,000,000,000 tonnes of atmospheric CO2 emission… Maybe we shouldn’t see that perspective as the moral high ground?

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
      41·
      1 day ago

      You drag in so many strawman non sequitor type stuff that I can’t have this conversation with you. You are likely a paid social media account trying to cause trouble based on the pattern of speech

      • TimothyOilpants@lemmy.ca
        13·
        1 day ago

        Questions aren’t strawmen… the opposite actually. Challenging my integrity because you disagree with me IS an ad hominem attack though.

        The intellectual exercise of challenging your upbringing, indoctrination, and convictions is too much for a lot of people.

        Characterize me however you need to in order to avoid those uncomfortable questions about your own bias though…Have a good one.