Xi Jinping threatened Trudeau in public. Chinese Canadian leader says it’s all Canada’s fault

Ding, a Rogers Communications employee, blames it on the Canadian PM, Canadian media, Canadian foreign policy, and the Canadian people.

In our previous post, we mentioned that Chinese Canadian commentator Guo Ding丁果 claimed the Canadian media and intelligence agency’s discussion of foreign interference to be “witch-hunting” and would harm Canada’s national interests. Some of our readers were very intrigued by this “nearly-impossible-to-achieve” argument and hoped to read more about Ding’s thought process. So here we are posting the full text of his opinion piece. It is translated by the DeepL Translator with slight editing for grammar.

English Translation of Ding’s opinion piece 

Headline: Why did Trudeau flip-flop?
Author: Guo Ding 丁果
Publication date: Nov. 26, 2022
Platform: Rise Weekly 高度 website.
Original post link: https://riseweekly.com/2022-11-trudeau/

At the same time, we also provided a few comments.

Text like this is from Guo Ding’s piece. 

(Text like this is our comments.)

The world is entering a state of chaos. The Bali G20 summit that would affect the international order and the world economy in general, including a more-than-three-hour-long China-US leaders meeting, ended up being surprisingly stolen of the limelight by two sideline talks between the leaders of China and Canada that lasted less than fifteen minutes.

In addition, the English-language media in Canada focused on the discussion of Chinese President Xi Jinping's "rebuke" of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, worsening the already frozen Canada-China relations, but did not seriously discuss the "great power diplomacy" of Canadian PM Trudeau, especially what went wrong with his China policy. This is a "failure of responsibility" of the Canadian mainstream media, and an important sign of the decline in the quality of the English-language Canadian media.

(When the world is shocked by Xi Jinping’s rudeness and social faux pas,  Ding claims it’s the Canadian PM’s fault, and the English media talking about Xi’s rudeness worsened the Canada-China relations, therefore the media failed their responsibility. 

In other words, if the English media chose not to discuss Xi's rudeness, it would have filled its responsibility and the Canada-China relations would not worsen.)

Firstly, Trudeau's diplomatic status with China’s president has been reduced to the point where he could only get informal conversations on the sidelines at G20, a rare diplomatic tragedy since the days of Trudeau's father, Trudeau Sr. No matter how much the Prime Minister and the English-language mainstream media play up Canada's confrontation with China and Canada's insistence on value-based tough stance toward China, the fact remains that Xi Jinping held a three-hour-plus summit conversation with the U.S. President Joe Biden. While the U.S. is the power that leads the siege of China, and Canada clearly obeys Washington, but the United States gets a much higher diplomatic treatment (before China) than Canada.

(Right. Canada and U.S. have to compete for favour before China and its supreme leader Xi Jinping. Apparently Canada lost in this competition at G20. Shame on Trudeau!)

Australia and New Zealand, two other members of the Five Eyes alliance, have been given the status of talking formally with China. These two countries also participate in the U.S.-lead siege of China, but they obtained China’s respect. Why the difference? Shouldn’t Canada think about it? Obviously, Trudeau botched Canada’s relations with China and didn’t get the diplomatic respect that Canada should have. Should the Canadian public opinion hold Trudeau accountable and give him a performance review?

(Besides Canada and the U.S., all the countries in the Five Eyes alliance should compete for favour from China in order to be given the status of a formal conversation with China. If China decides not to give this status to another country, the head of state of this country botched the China relations, and should be punished.)

What is even more worrying is the phenomenon of "racial discrimination" in the English-language Canadian media, in which some people deliberately extend the fire of confrontation between the West (especially Canada) and China, to the Chinese Canadian community, blurring the line between the Chinese Canadians (including Chinese public representatives, entrepreneurs and community leaders) and the Chinese government, and using the label of “national security” to cover up their racial discrimination and demonise the Chinese community. During Trudeau's "leaked" conversations with China’s leader, the "evidence" of Chinese interference in Canada's elections looms large. Before that there were media reports that 11 Canadian candidates and 13 campaign staffers had been linked to Chinese funding. The Canadian PM's accusations at G20 against China undoubtedly "confirmed" the media reports in the most authoritative way. The problem is that China denied the allegations, but the "political witch hunt" in Canada has begun, setting off a storm of recriminations by the Canadian opposition and the media.

(Criticising the Chinese government equals racial discrimination against Chinese Canadians. Classic CCP talking point. )

What's more, on Sunday, Nov. 20th, Trudeau told reporters in Tunis "I have no information, nor have I been informed of any federal election candidate, who received any money from China". This flip-flopping has turned public opinion about Trudeau's complaint to the Chinese leader against Beijing's interference in the Canadian election into a "Rashomon". Logically, Trudeau's confession on the 20th hit hard at the bad journalist who had the audacity to invoke the intelligence agency's "deep throat" to create a buzz. But one has to ask, did the media lie? Or did PM Trudeau lie?

(The English media quoted Canadian intelligence to report on Canada’s national security. How dare you, English media! Your report made an impact on Canadian society and challenged China, so you are a bad journalist. Also, Trudeau said he wasn’t aware of the allegations candidates took the money, he didn’t say he wasn’t made aware of the interference, though some try to spin it that way.)

Anyway, with the global media hype, the level of criticism against China is increasing in the Canadian government and the public, and the accumulated resentment between China and Canada are getting deeper and deeper, and the percentage of mutual distrust among the people has reached a record high. However, what's most worrying is the Chinese Canadian community are worried that the deterioration of Canada-China relations will worsen the racial discrimination in Canada that arose during the pandemic, and make more than one million Chinese people to be the scapegoat of the declining relations between the two countries. The populist showmanship of PM Justin Trudeau is not only harming Canada's diplomatic and national interests, but is also fueling the media and civil society's "discrimination against Chinese" and "demonization of Chinese public representatives. Is this not an important wake-up call at a time when the notorious Chinese Immigration Act reached its 100th anniversary of enactment?

(Trudeau brought up Canadians’ concerns that a foreign country might have interfered in Canada’s elections. This is racism against (Chinese) Canadians! 

Shame on you Trudeau! You should never ever say anything that would make China’s top leader unhappy, otherwise you are to be blamed. In addition, the English media’s diligent report on Canada’s national security should also be blamed, because trying to find whether a foreign country has interfered in Canada’s politics would make (Chinese) Canadians worry.

All in all, whether China has interfered in Canada's elections should not be investigated by the intelligence agency, nor should it be reported by the media, or be discussed by the public, or brought up by Canada’s leader to China. Otherwise, it is racism, and Guo Ding will blame the Canadian media, the Canadian intelligence agency, the Canadian politicians, and the Canadian public. The only one that will always be exempted from blame is China.)

Who is Guo Ding 丁果?

• Guo Ding is the producer of OMNI BC Mandarin News, a program under Rogers Communications. 

• Ding is one of the members of the B. C. premier’s Chinese-Canadian Community Advisory Committee. 

• Ding is the founding president of Canada Committee 100 Society (CCS100, 加拿大华裔百人会), a non-profit organization. In December 2021, Canada Committee 100 Society received $20,000 from the B.C. government to host 10 public engagement sessions for Chinese-speaking communities to provide their thoughts on race-based data collection.

• Ding is a productive commentator and many of his Chinese pieces have been published in Rise Magazine, or its WeChat channel “Rise Weekly”. Ding has a long track record of defending Beijing when there are conflicts between China and Canada, or when China is criticized by the international community for its human rights violations. 

• Ding often claims himself to be a good friend of B.C. Premier David Eby.