Vancouverite fervently supporting Beijing’s crackdown on Hong Kong democracy is awarded Queen’s Platinum Jubilee medal
Wife of the Richmond Mayor was also awarded the same medal.
A Vancouver businessman and a fervent supporter of Beijing’s crackdown on Hong Kong’s democracy was granted the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee medal in Canada, according to Mingpao, a Chinese language media in B.C..
Pak Hang Tse 谢伯衡 (2nd from left), president of Sun Wah Foods Ltd.新华食品有限公司 and founding president of the Hong Kong Canadians on Hong Kong Situation Association 香港会, received the medal from Senator Yonah Martin (2nd from right) on November 12, 2022.
The event was held in Richmond city hall. Christine Brodie, the wife of Richmond mayor Malcolm Brodie, was also granted the same medal.
It is said that the medal is to recognize the recipient’s contribution to the Canadian government and the community.
What contribution has Tse made to Canada? Let’s dig into the Chinese-language media.
Pak Hang Tse 谢伯衡: a Canadian born and raised in Hong Kong, but fervently supports Beijing’s crackdown on Hong Kong’s democracy
Pak Hang Tse is a businessman and community leader in the Greater Vancouver area. According to a report by Rise Weekly, Tse was born and raised in Hong Kong, and immigrated to Canada more than 40 years ago.
Tse is the president of Sun Wah Foods Ltd., a company that imports Asian food into Canada.
In 2014, the year of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Umbrella Movement, Tse established the Hong Kong Canadians on Hong Kong Situation Association 加国港人关注港情协会 or 香港会. Ever since that, he’s seen speaking in support of Beijing on many occasions on behalf of Hong Kong Canadians.
On July 15, 2017, the Hong Kong Canadians on Hong Kong Situation Association hosted an event in Vancouver to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to mainland China.
The event was co-organized by CONCORD Pacific, a real estate company. China’s Consul-General Liu Fei attended the event. Liu and Tse were in the centre of the group photo.
In June 2019, when massive protests broke out in Hong Kong as a response to China’s proposed extradition bill, 200+ Chinese Canadian organizations published a joint-statement in major newspapers in Canada, condemning the protesters and supporting Beijing. The joint statement was led by the Chinese Benevolent Association of Vancouver (CBA), and Tse’s Hong Kong Canadians on Hong Kong Situation Association signed its name right after the CBA.
Two months later, after multiple reports of the Hong Kong police’s brutal assaulting and arresting protestors, 200+ Canadian organizations held another news conference to voice their support for the Hong Kong police.
In the summer of 2020, when China cracked down on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests through the legislation of the National Security Law (NSL), Tse’s Hong Kong Canadians on Hong Kong Situation Association and Hilbert Yiu’s CBA again helmed a joint statement to support the draconian National Security Law. 360+ Chinese Canadian organizations signed on the statement.
What’s more, in July 2020, Tse and Yiu on behalf of their organizations, even started a petition in Canada calling on the Canadian government to support China’s National Security Law, two weeks after Canada suspended its extradition treaty with Hong Kong and sanctioned some Chinese officials.
On Sept. 9, 2020, Tse had an interview with Rise Weekly, saying the riots in recent years in Hong Kong were due to the flawed British administration before 1997.
In July 2020, Tse told TCN News the National Security Law was ‘completely necessary, and the protesters wanted to destroy HK’s prosperous development.
On March 14, 2021, Tse had an interview with China News Service, a CCP mouthpiece that focuses on influencing overseas Chinese. Tse told CNS that after Hong Kong returned to mainland China, Hong Kong people enjoyed democracy and freedom that were never impossible before 1997 under British rule.
In June 2022, Tse went to the Chinese Consulate-General to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to Beijing. The event was hosted by the Chinese Consulate General in Vancouver. China’s Consul-General Tong Xiaoling 佟小玲 welcomed a bunch of Canadian politicians and community leaders, including B.C. MLA George Chow 周炯华, MP Parm Bains 白恩斯, Richmond mayor Malcolm Brodie 马保定, former MP Alice Wong 黄陈小萍, etc..
In September 2022, thousands of Hong Kongers went to the British consulate in HK to mourn the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, and the death of Hong Kong’s freedom and democracy.
One of the mourners there was arrested by the police for ‘sedition’, according to a clause of the National security law. How did he carry out the sedition? He played the song “Glory to Hong Kong” on a harmonica at the vigil.
Two months after that, Mr. Pak Hang Tse, a Hong Kong Canadian who repeatedly cheered for Beijing’s destruction of Hong Kong, was granted a Queen’s Platinum Jubilee medal.
Certainly, the Queen can rest in peace now.