China’s Economic Miracle Was Built on Mass Displacement. If you think the CCP will treat foreigners better than its own people, when it extends its power over you, please think again: Dimon Liu’s warning to Canadian Parliament, warns Dimon Liu Dimon Liu, a China-born, Washington, D.C.-based democracy advocate who testified in Parliament to the Canada’s House of Commons committee on International Human Rights on December 8, 2025, about the human cost of China’s economic rise.
Liu argues that the Canadian government should tighten scrutiny of high-risk trade and investment, and ensure Canada’s foreign policy does not inadvertently reward coercion.
Liu also warns that the Chinese Communist Party [CCP] could gain leverage over Canadians and treat them as it has done to its own subjugated population—an implied message to Prime Minister Mark Carney, who has pledged to engage China as a strategic partner without making that position clear to Canadians during his election campaign.
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If you have ever wondered how China managed to grow so fast in such a short time, Charles Li, former CEO of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, has the answers for you. He listed 4 reasons: 1) cheapest land, 2) cheapest labor, 3) cheapest capital, and 4) disregard of environmental costs … “The cheapest land” because the CCP government took the land from the farmers at little to no compensation. “The cheapest labor,” because these farmers, without land to farm, were forced to find work in urban areas at very low wages …
One well known incident of eviction occurred in November 2017. Cai Qi, now the second most powerful man in China after Xi Jinping, was a municipal official in Beijing. He evicted tens of thousands into Beijing’s harsh winter, with only days, or just moments of notice. Cai Qi made famous a term, “low-end population” (低端人口), and exposed CCP’s contempt of rural migrants it treats as second class citizens.
“The cheapest capital” is acquired through predatory banking practices, and through the stock markets, first to rake in the savings of the Chinese people; and later international investments by listing opaque, and state owned enterprises in leading stock markets around the world.
Chinese Communist officials often laud their system as superior. The essayist Qin Hui has written that the Chinese communist government enjoys a human rights abuse advantage. This is true. By abusing its own people so brutally, the CCP regime has created an image of success, which will prove to be a mirage.
Now is not the time to fall for fearmongering.
I surmise that much of this alarmism around China is to promote continued dependency on the US.
Look at where a friendly relationship with the US has left Canada.
Canada is strong enough to stand on its own two feet. It doesn’t need to be a vassal of the US or China.
But it absolutely can do business with both countries in ways that are domestically beneficial. In fact it would be wise to.
Every empire commits human rights abuses. The US was built on and is expanding their abuses now. The West had no issue building empires on human and drug trafficking (colonialism). Morality is absolutely a factor when we think about who we do business with but it certainly is not the only factor. If we claim it to be the only factor then we are hypocrites.
This is not fearmongering. The Chinese government considers a large part of its own citizens as “low-end population,” as second-class citizens. China’s economic development came and still comes at the expense of the majority of its people, and they pursue similar politics abroad.
And colonialism is a factor of its own as I have already written. This must be dealt with, sure, but it’s not hypocritical if you hold the Chinese government accountable for its crimes against humanity. There is much evidence for this.
Yeah I don’t love that though many Western nations especially the US have a de facto second and third tier population through historical subjugation and predatory capitalist practices (African Americans and Indigineous people come to mind). My overall point being no empire is really “good” and so morality is only one consideration when doing business with a nation. The US entered multiple illegal wars and is committing war crimes in the Carribean today but that does not stop its allies and others from continuing to do trade with them.