Thursday, March 28, 2024

Biden Defends China’s ‘COVID Freedom’ Protests, but Not US and Canadian Ones

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ANALYSIS – The massive protests against the communist Chinese dictatorship and its draconian anti-COVID repression continue.

And so does the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) crackdown.

As these Chinese ‘freedom protests' grow and spread, hypocritical Western leaders, who until recently pursued their own less harsh COVID crackdowns and vaccine mandates, are showing their support.

Among them, .

A Monday White House statement in response to anti-lockdown demonstrations that swept through major Chinese cities reads:

We think it's going to be very difficult for the People's Republic of to be able to contain this virus through their zero COVID strategy. We've long said everyone has a right to peacefully protest, here in the and around the world. This includes the PRC.

Sadly, while he could be far more aggressive in his response to China's COVID repression, Biden was doing just the opposite with earlier Canadian and American COVID crackdown protests.

's authoritarian overkill in response to Canadian truckers was particularly egregious.

An unquestionably authoritarian move, it received criticism from the left, right and center.

The leftist Canadian Civil Liberties Association called Trudeau's actions “unnecessary, unjustifiable and unconstitutional.” 

Reason Magazine's J.D. Tuccille said at the time that Trudeau had a “bad case of China-envy.”

Yet, Biden wholeheartedly backed Trudeau's repression.

As Reason explains:

The urged the Canadian to use whatever means it had to reopen border crossings barricaded by the so-called “Freedom convoy” and get a handle on the protests.

That's according to revelations of an ongoing Canadian inquiry into Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's unprecedented invocation of Canada's Emergencies Act.

Why was Biden so gung-ho about Trudeau's crushing of the peaceful trucker freedom protests?

Reason argues that, in part:

Biden embraced an expansive view of his executive powers to effectively mandate vaccines for millions of Americans. That contributed to his support for the suppression of Canadian anti-mandate demonstrations.

Reason added: “The only people who seem to support Trudeau's use of emergency powers against peaceful protestors are the prime minister himself—and the Biden White House.”

And Biden's strong backing of Trudeau's repression makes his current defense of China's protests all the more laughable.

It also erodes his moral authority to lecture the Chinese government now on the right of the people to peaceful protest.

As Reason concludes: “It's also a lesson in how restrictions on freedom in one country can damage it everywhere.”

When America allows the crushing of political dissent at home and promotes repression by its liberal northern neighbor, it not only hurts us, it fuels more repression among our enemies.

This only helps authoritarianism grow globally. ALD

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Paul Crespo
Paul Crespohttps://paulcrespo.com/
Paul Crespo is the Managing Editor of American Liberty Defense News. As a Marine Corps officer, he led Marines, served aboard ships in the Pacific and jumped from helicopters and airplanes. He was also a military attaché with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) at U.S. embassies worldwide. He later ran for office, taught political science, wrote for a major newspaper and had his own radio show. A graduate of Georgetown, London and Cambridge universities, he brings decades of experience and insight to the issues that most threaten our American liberty – at home and from abroad.

2 COMMENTS

  1. This is just what a traitor does. It is impossible for a leopard to change his spots or a Biden to be anything but a thug. Biden has determined to make America into a third world sh1thole and he is doing a very good job. Why wouldn’t he condemn everything American and make a mess of the government? There are really no words strong enough to describe my contempt for this ahole and I will never stop calling this guy by the names he deserves. Time to take out the trash, America!

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