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16 Jun, 5 tweets, 2 min read
This is one of the dudes seen at Justin Trudeau's dumpling-rolling party/Liberal fundraiser at the Vancouver home of Pan Miaofei: "Chinese-Canadian businessman Xiao Hua Gong cuts record-breaking $70m deal with NZ police over frozen assets" via @nzherald nzherald.co.nz/nz/chinese-can…
That's him, Edward Gong, on the far left
Sidebar: the other guest of honour at this shindig was Chen Yongtau, who sat next to Trudeau
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Sidebar to sidebar to sidebar: SO WHAT WAS DISCUSSED at this 2016 fundraiser?? Why, host Pan asked Trudeau to make it easier for Chinese developers to buy land in Canada. He also told Trudeau rich immigrant investors from China should be treated better theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/…

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There are two guys who routinely tag 20-50 people into conversations they then have AMONG THEMSELVES as part of a campaign to harass me. It's been going on for years. It's pathetic. It's like pleasuring yourself in a crowded room and pretending you're at an orgy Image
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This thread is getting attention, so I wanted to add a post-script: IMO, there are two reasons horrific treatment of the #Rohingya flies under the radar, both counter-intuitive in the west. 1) The concept of ethno-Buddhist hatred, which many find hard to credit, but is v real...
Exhibit A is Gen Manas, an amulet-wearing believer in Buddhist primacy, who saw Muslim Rohingya as subhuman in same way as, Exhibit B: diplomat Ye Myint Aung, who reject the idea that these dark-skinned "ogres" could possibly be connected to Myanmar scmp.com/article/669529…
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It gives me great pleasure to announce the death of Lt General Manas Kongpan, disgraced and bereft in a Thai prison, the most evil man I have encountered in 30 years of journalism...
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@SCMPNews Hundreds were dying under the most nightmarish circumstances. Skeletal men, baked to death by the tropical sun in excrement-filled hulks, as they drifted. Dying of thirst, starvation. Drowning. How many? We'll never know
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Oh, hi, you don't think China cares what Canada thinks? Well, the media chief of Citic (China's state investment gigacorp) LITERALLY BOUGHT CONTROL of a Canadian newspaper. The insane story (spoiler, he dies in a Chinese prison) is here...A THREAD: scmp.com/magazines/post…
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So, never mind the subtlety of Chinese influence on local media: Here's Citic, THE CHINESE GOVT'S OWN COMPANY, literally buying a Cdn newspaper. Look. Here's the share certificate! Image
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