One critic says the spot looks \u0027suspiciously\u0027 like it was meant to propagate China\u0027s position at a time of international outcry over the law
There’s no direct evidence that Chinese officials had anything to do with the ad. But China has generally stepped up its efforts in recent years to try to influence foreign countries like Canada and their Chinese diaspora.
Various human-rights organizations and Western governments have lambasted the law, saying it will crush the freedoms that set Hong Kong apart from mainland China. The United States has imposed strict sanctions in response. It goes on to dismiss the protests in Hong Kong in much the same way Beijing has done — as violent and led by secessionists.
It said it supported the new law as a way to promote the “stability and prosperity of Hong Kong,” equating the move with former prime minister Pierre Trudeau’s controversial imposition of the War Measures Act in 1970s Quebec after FLQ terrorist acts.
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