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🚨 “I’m going to shoot all of you!” Canada Must Treat a Death Threat on a Toronto Sidewalk as a Crime
A free country is judged by what it allows on an ordinary street. Circulating video from Toronto shows a man wearing a People’s Republic of China flag patch confronting Falun Gong practitioners at a public display, grabbing banners that read “Stop Persecution of Falun Gong” and “Stop CCP Transnational Repression,” and leaving poles and signs on the ground. On the original audio, he can be heard saying: “The Ethnic Unity Law is now in effect. I’m going to shoot all of you.”
That is not political argument. It is an alleged death threat, delivered in Canada, against people exercising a Charter right to worship and to protest. A Chinese statute has no force on a Toronto sidewalk. A man invoking Beijing’s law as a license to execute believers in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance is importing a police-state slogan onto Canadian soil.
Toronto Police Service should preserve every second of the original audio, identify the speaker, and determine whether the words meet the Criminal Code test for uttering threats, alongside possible assault and mischief. The Ontario Attorney General and federal public-safety officials should not treat this as a noisy quarrel between “community groups.” If the speaker is linked to United Front work or consular direction, that belongs in an RCMP and CSIS file.
Canada already knows the pattern: harassment of Falun Gong practitioners, pressure on families, and hoax bomb threats that disrupted Shen Yun in Toronto this year. A filmed threat to have people shot is the moment when “awareness” must become enforcement.
Investigate the video. Transcribe the audio. Charge whoever broke the law. Give the targeted practitioners a public accounting. A democracy does not prove its values by lecturing Beijing. It proves them by making clear that “I’m going to shoot all of you” is a crime in Canada, not a talking point from another country’s statute book.
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[ Field Footage ] When Peng Liyuan stepped into view during Xi Jinping’s Washington visit, the protesters did not hesitate. “Down with the Communist Party! Xi Jinping step down!” The chants were loud, public, and exactly the kind of words that vanish inside China.
Then the professionals went to work. Unidentified men mixed into the crowd began shoving, punching, and spraying pepper spray into faces to kill the slogans. Bodies hit the grass. Flags tangled. The scene looked less like diplomacy and more like a cleanup crew protecting an image that cannot survive open air.
A first couple that needs hired fists and chemical spray to mute a few voices in an American park is not projecting strength. They are advertising fragility. Tonight they will sleep in a luxury hotel after a state dinner. The question is whether the people who require violence to keep a slogan from reaching their ears can actually close their eyes. Power that travels across an ocean yet still panics at a handful of shouted words does not look as unshakable as the official photographs insist.
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[ Margin Notes ] If nobody captioned this video “Washington D.C.,” you’d swear it was a Pyongyang children’s mass games rehearsal. Matching blue uniforms, tiny U.S. and Chinese flags waved in perfect unison, identical smiles while Peng Liyuan stands watching. Hope Chinese School kids hitting every note of “Song and Smile” with the same precision North Korean schoolchildren use to praise the dear leader. Cultural diplomacy or just another tightly choreographed youth spectacle? The first ladies applaud on cue. Soft power never looked so rehearsed.
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“Americans are robbers.” That is what a pro-CCP group blasted through loudspeakers in the heart of Washington, D.C., while Xi Jinping was being hosted at the White House.
Not in Beijing. On American streets, near the National Mall, in front of an EPA building, as Falun Gong practitioners held a peaceful protest. The same group then rushed the protesters and ripped down their banners. Li Huahong assaulted one female Falun Gong practitioner, who was injured. Police pinned Li to the ground, cuffed her, and arrested her after she attacked the woman and then resisted.
Li is no random agitator. For years she has run a Flushing, New York sidewalk operation recycling official CCP slander against Falun Gong, the same propaganda Beijing used to justify mass imprisonment, torture, and forced organ harvesting. Today she brought that operation to the U.S. capital: physical assault, stolen banners, and a 1960s Mao-era children’s song calling Americans “robbers” and “bandits.”
This is not “counter-protest.” It is transnational repression on American soil. The Chinese Communist Party exports intimidation. It uses proxies to silence critics wherever they stand. When its leader visits, the enforcers travel with him. They do not just argue. They assault a woman holding a banner and drown out free speech with loudspeakers blasting hatred against the country hosting their boss.
A foreign regime’s agents cannot be allowed to beat a peaceful female protester and publicly denounce Americans as thieves in Washington while their leader is received at the White House. That is an insult to U.S. sovereignty and a test of whether America still defends the First Amendment when the attacker is aligned with Beijing.
Federal authorities must investigate this fully: who organized the group, who paid for the loudspeakers, who directed the violence, and how deep the coordination runs. Police made an arrest. That is the start, not the end.
If Beijing can send people to assault a woman and broadcast “Americans are robbers” in the U.S. capital, no critic of the CCP is safe, anywhere. This cannot be tolerated.
ACI — Aric Chen | Insights
🚨 “I’m going to shoot all of you!” Canada Must Treat a Death Threat on a Toronto Sidewalk as a Crime
A free country is judged by what it allows on an ordinary street. Circulating video from Toronto shows a man wearing a People’s Republic of China flag patch confronting Falun Gong practitioners at a public display, grabbing banners that read “Stop Persecution of Falun Gong” and “Stop CCP Transnational Repression,” and leaving poles and signs on the ground. On the original audio, he can be heard saying: “The Ethnic Unity Law is now in effect. I’m going to shoot all of you.”
That is not political argument. It is an alleged death threat, delivered in Canada, against people exercising a Charter right to worship and to protest. A Chinese statute has no force on a Toronto sidewalk. A man invoking Beijing’s law as a license to execute believers in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance is importing a police-state slogan onto Canadian soil.
Toronto Police Service should preserve every second of the original audio, identify the speaker, and determine whether the words meet the Criminal Code test for uttering threats, alongside possible assault and mischief. The Ontario Attorney General and federal public-safety officials should not treat this as a noisy quarrel between “community groups.” If the speaker is linked to United Front work or consular direction, that belongs in an RCMP and CSIS file.
Canada already knows the pattern: harassment of Falun Gong practitioners, pressure on families, and hoax bomb threats that disrupted Shen Yun in Toronto this year. A filmed threat to have people shot is the moment when “awareness” must become enforcement.
Investigate the video. Transcribe the audio. Charge whoever broke the law. Give the targeted practitioners a public accounting. A democracy does not prove its values by lecturing Beijing. It proves them by making clear that “I’m going to shoot all of you” is a crime in Canada, not a talking point from another country’s statute book.
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[ Margin Notes ] If nobody captioned this video “Washington D.C.,” you’d swear it was a Pyongyang children’s mass games rehearsal. Matching blue uniforms, tiny U.S. and Chinese flags waved in perfect unison, identical smiles while Peng Liyuan stands watching. Hope Chinese School kids hitting every note of “Song and Smile” with the same precision North Korean schoolchildren use to praise the dear leader. Cultural diplomacy or just another tightly choreographed youth spectacle? The first ladies applaud on cue. Soft power never looked so rehearsed.
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The Chinese Communist Party preaches "win-win cooperation" and "shared future" while its photographers treat the White House as occupied ground. A male CCP cameraman shoves an American female reporter aside in the rush toward the Oval Office.
This is no accident. It is the Party's muscle memory: control the image, push aside dissent, and label it protocol. At home they disappear journalists; abroad they simply elbow them.
Red carpets and pandas cannot hide the same authoritarian instinct. The CCP demands the world admire the official photo while it keeps shoving everyone else out of the frame.
This follows earlier clashes between U.S. and Chinese photographers during the arrival ceremony.
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[ Field Footage ] CCP-affiliated personnel generate chaos wherever they operate. On 24 September 2026, Xi Jinping’s traveling press corps shoved, shouted and refused Secret Service instructions while jostling for position at the White House. Video shows reporters physically grappling and blocking paths minutes before the arrival ceremony.
The identical pattern appeared four months earlier in Beijing. During Trump’s state visit, Chinese journalists charged into a bilateral meeting, knocking down and trampling a White House staffer who was left bruised and shaken. American officials called it a “s***show” and later warned their counterparts not to treat others the same way.
Whether in Washington or Beijing, the traveling Chinese media treat access as a physical contest rather than a professional exercise. The recurring disorder reflects habits formed under a system that prizes force and crowding over courtesy or rules. The result is the same on both sides of the Pacific: disruption that undermines official events and exposes a clear difference in conduct.
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[ Field Footage ] CCP-affiliated personnel generate chaos wherever they operate. On 24 September 2026, Xi Jinping’s traveling press corps shoved, shouted and refused Secret Service instructions while jostling for position at the White House. Video shows reporters physically grappling and blocking paths minutes before the arrival ceremony.
The identical pattern appeared four months earlier in Beijing. During Trump’s state visit, Chinese journalists charged into a bilateral meeting, knocking down and trampling a White House staffer who was left bruised and shaken. American officials called it a “s***show” and later warned their counterparts not to treat others the same way.
Whether in Washington or Beijing, the traveling Chinese media treat access as a physical contest rather than a professional exercise. The recurring disorder reflects habits formed under a system that prizes force and crowding over courtesy or rules. The result is the same on both sides of the Pacific: disruption that undermines official events and exposes a clear difference in conduct.
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This Was Not America Kneeling. It Was America Choosing the Terrain.
On Wednesday night at Joint Base Andrews, America did something it almost never does. The president walked onto the tarmac and personally received the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Red carpet. Honor guard. Anthems. Flyover. Beijing will replay the footage until the pixels peel off.
Do not be fooled by the theater. Yes, this was not America kneeling, it was America choosing the terrain.
Xi Jinping is not a normal guest. He is an unelected dictator who rules by fear at home and coercion abroad, building the fastest military expansion in modern Chinese history while turning the world’s second-largest economy into a weapons system of supply chains, rare earths, and political warfare. Protocol is a tool. Great powers use it when unmanaged collision is more dangerous than managed pressure.
Look at the board, not the handshake. Strategic cooling with the principal rival denies Beijing the gift of American distraction. Farm purchases are a lever, not charity. Energy chokepoints still sit on the world’s oil throat, and the intelligent move is to deal with the patron, not pretend China is a bystander. That is the oldest logic in strategy: freeze the distant giant long enough to settle the nearer knife.
Taiwan is not on the table. The island is the lock on advanced chips and the first island chain, economic security, technological security, homeland security. You do not pawn the lock because the burglar arrived in a motorcade.
Beijing will call the tarmac respect. It is closer to containment with manners. The dictator can have the photograph. America should keep the strategy.
⬇️ For the fuller reading, reciprocity, transnational repression, midterms, Iran, and why the greeting is a box, not a bow, click the long essay below.
Aric’s note: The video is a related news segment from the Evening News I anchor.
Do not be fooled by the theater. This was not America kneeling. It was America choosing the terrain.
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Do not be fooled by the theater. This was not America kneeling. It was America choosing the terrain.
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🚨 “I’m going to shoot all of you!” Canada Must Treat a Death Threat on a Toronto Sidewalk as a Crime
A free country is judged by what it allows on an ordinary street. Circulating video from Toronto shows a man wearing a People’s Republic of China flag patch confronting Falun Gong practitioners at a public display, grabbing banners that read “Stop Persecution of Falun Gong” and “Stop CCP Transnational Repression,” and leaving poles and signs on the ground. On the original audio, he can be heard saying: “The Ethnic Unity Law is now in effect. I’m going to shoot all of you.”
That is not political argument. It is an alleged death threat, delivered in Canada, against people exercising a Charter right to worship and to protest. A Chinese statute has no force on a Toronto sidewalk. A man invoking Beijing’s law as a license to execute believers in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance is importing a police-state slogan onto Canadian soil.
Toronto Police Service should preserve every second of the original audio, identify the speaker, and determine whether the words meet the Criminal Code test for uttering threats, alongside possible assault and mischief. The Ontario Attorney General and federal public-safety officials should not treat this as a noisy quarrel between “community groups.” If the speaker is linked to United Front work or consular direction, that belongs in an RCMP and CSIS file.
Canada already knows the pattern: harassment of Falun Gong practitioners, pressure on families, and hoax bomb threats that disrupted Shen Yun in Toronto this year. A filmed threat to have people shot is the moment when “awareness” must become enforcement.
Investigate the video. Transcribe the audio. Charge whoever broke the law. Give the targeted practitioners a public accounting. A democracy does not prove its values by lecturing Beijing. It proves them by making clear that “I’m going to shoot all of you” is a crime in Canada, not a talking point from another country’s statute book.
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That woman, Lina Li, has now spoken out for the first time in the attached video. She described protecting the banners when her chin was cut. Only afterward did she feel the blood.
“The (PRC) Ethnic Unity Law is now in effect, I could shoot you!” When did a Toronto sidewalk become CCP territory?
On September 22, a man wearing a PRC flag on his jacket tore down Falun Gong banners outside the Chinese Consulate, shoved practitioners, and screamed that he would kill them and shoot them. He told a woman standing on Canadian pavement that the ground itself belonged to Beijing.
That woman, Lina Li, has now spoken out for the first time in the attached video. She described protecting the banners when her chin was cut. Only afterward did she feel the blood. Fellow practitioner Nora Geng, kicked while filming, said the attacker showed no fear of police and used language about “separatism” that does not sound like a random passerby. Toronto Police are investigating. They should finish the job.
This is not a neighborhood quarrel. It is the latest export of a 27-year campaign. Since July 1999 the Chinese Communist Party has tried to erase Falun Gong, a spiritual practice grounded in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. Inside China that campaign has meant prisons, torture, and the well-documented harvesting of organs from prisoners of conscience. Outside China it has become transnational repression: family members threatened back home, practitioners followed, banners slashed, and hoax bomb threats used to cancel Shen Yun performances, including in Toronto this year.
The method is consistent. A foreign statute is invoked on a free street as if it had force of law. A public sidewalk is declared “Chinese territory.” Death threats are delivered in daylight, then the suspect flees. The message is not subtle: even in Canada, even under the Charter, even in front of cameras, you can be punished for believing what Beijing forbids.
Canada has already seen the pattern. Elderly practitioners assaulted. Displays vandalized. Relatives in China used as leverage. Diplomatic missions and United Front networks have long treated diaspora communities as extensions of Party discipline. When a man can claim the right to execute people on a Toronto sidewalk and walk away, the problem is no longer “awareness.” It is enforcement.
Toronto Police should preserve every frame and every second of audio, identify the speaker, and test the words against the Criminal Code on uttering threats, assault, and mischief. The Ontario Attorney General and federal public-safety officials should treat this as more than a noisy dispute between “community groups.” If the attacker is linked to consular direction or United Front work, that belongs in an RCMP and CSIS file.
A democracy is not judged by how loudly it lectures Beijing. It is judged by whether “I will kill you” remains a crime when the victim practices a faith the Party hates. Charge the suspect. Give the practitioners a public accounting. Make clear that Chinese law ends at China’s border, and that Canadian law still begins on a Toronto sidewalk.
ACI — Aric Chen | Insights
@TorontoPolice @TPSOperations @ONAttorneyGen @Safety_Canada @rcmpgrcpolice @csiscanada
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If he’s a “diplomat”, he should be PNG’ed back to the communist regime where they suppress speech and anti-Chinese Communist Party voices.
If not, that sounds like a death threat to me, which the last time I checked was a criminal offence per Section 264.1(1)(a).
"The (PRC) Ethnic Unity Law is now in effect. I'm going to shoot all of you." He can be heard saying this at 01:18 here:
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[ Margin Notes ] The Chinese Communist Party chairman Xi Jinping has just arrived in the United States for a high-stakes state visit. In a rare break from protocol, President Donald Trump personally met him on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews.
The first question on many minds: Does the leader of China still walk with that distinctive duck-like waddle? The slightly unsteady, side-to-side gait that has sparked persistent rumors about his physical condition.
And once again, his wife Peng Liyuan appears by his side, functioning as the most stylish walking aid in international diplomacy. The couple moves carefully down the aircraft stairs, her hand providing the necessary support.
Grand welcome ceremonies featuring military honors and a state dinner lie ahead. But some things never change. The waddle continues. The first lady remains the unofficial crutch.
I watch closely as the diplomatic theater unfolds. This visit is only just beginning.
— Aric
Two of the Chinese companies under consideration for Xi Jinping's delegation to Thursday's White House state dinner sit on the Pentagon's list of firms it links to China's military. CATL was added in January 2025. BYD was added in June.
Reuters reported last week that Xi planned to bring companies facing US sanctions, blacklists or regulatory pressure, and that China's commerce ministry was the one contacting them. So the companies weren't deciding whether to go. A ministry was calling them.
On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Xi will probably arrive for his first Washington visit in 11 years without an executive delegation at all, citing people familiar with the plans, who said things could still change. NPR had earlier reported that Beijing asked for more than half of the roughly 100 seats at the dinner to fit its business leaders, and that the White House pushed back.
The 2015 visit is the comparison I keep coming back to. Jack Ma traveled with Xi to Washington state that September and stood in the group photo at a tech forum alongside Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos. In October 2020, Ma gave a speech in Shanghai criticizing China's financial regulators. Beijing halted what would have been Ant Group's record stock listing days later, and Ma dropped out of public view for nearly three months.
A Chinese founder on a state trip is not a free agent pitching American investors. He sits at the table because the Chinese Communist Party put him there, and on this trip, by one source's account, Beijing wanted that table to include companies the Pentagon has flagged for military ties.
Asked about the delegation, China's foreign ministry told the Journal it had no information to provide.
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“The (PRC) Ethnic Unity Law is now in effect, I could shoot you!” When did a Toronto sidewalk become CCP territory?
On September 22, a man wearing a PRC flag on his jacket tore down Falun Gong banners outside the Chinese Consulate, shoved practitioners, and screamed that he would kill them and shoot them. He told a woman standing on Canadian pavement that the ground itself belonged to Beijing.
That woman, Lina Li, has now spoken out for the first time in the attached video. She described protecting the banners when her chin was cut. Only afterward did she feel the blood. Fellow practitioner Nora Geng, kicked while filming, said the attacker showed no fear of police and used language about “separatism” that does not sound like a random passerby. Toronto Police are investigating. They should finish the job.
This is not a neighborhood quarrel. It is the latest export of a 27-year campaign. Since July 1999 the Chinese Communist Party has tried to erase Falun Gong, a spiritual practice grounded in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. Inside China that campaign has meant prisons, torture, and the well-documented harvesting of organs from prisoners of conscience. Outside China it has become transnational repression: family members threatened back home, practitioners followed, banners slashed, and hoax bomb threats used to cancel Shen Yun performances, including in Toronto this year.
The method is consistent. A foreign statute is invoked on a free street as if it had force of law. A public sidewalk is declared “Chinese territory.” Death threats are delivered in daylight, then the suspect flees. The message is not subtle: even in Canada, even under the Charter, even in front of cameras, you can be punished for believing what Beijing forbids.
Canada has already seen the pattern. Elderly practitioners assaulted. Displays vandalized. Relatives in China used as leverage. Diplomatic missions and United Front networks have long treated diaspora communities as extensions of Party discipline. When a man can claim the right to execute people on a Toronto sidewalk and walk away, the problem is no longer “awareness.” It is enforcement.
Toronto Police should preserve every frame and every second of audio, identify the speaker, and test the words against the Criminal Code on uttering threats, assault, and mischief. The Ontario Attorney General and federal public-safety officials should treat this as more than a noisy dispute between “community groups.” If the attacker is linked to consular direction or United Front work, that belongs in an RCMP and CSIS file.
A democracy is not judged by how loudly it lectures Beijing. It is judged by whether “I will kill you” remains a crime when the victim practices a faith the Party hates. Charge the suspect. Give the practitioners a public accounting. Make clear that Chinese law ends at China’s border, and that Canadian law still begins on a Toronto sidewalk.
ACI — Aric Chen | Insights
@TorontoPolice @TPSOperations @ONAttorneyGen @Safety_Canada @rcmpgrcpolice @csiscanada
🚨 “I’m going to shoot all of you!” Canada Must Treat a Death Threat on a Toronto Sidewalk as a Crime
A free country is judged by what it allows on an ordinary street. Circulating video from Toronto shows a man wearing a People’s Republic of China flag patch confronting Falun Gong practitioners at a public display, grabbing banners that read “Stop Persecution of Falun Gong” and “Stop CCP Transnational Repression,” and leaving poles and signs on the ground. On the original audio, he can be heard saying: “The Ethnic Unity Law is now in effect. I’m going to shoot all of you.”
That is not political argument. It is an alleged death threat, delivered in Canada, against people exercising a Charter right to worship and to protest. A Chinese statute has no force on a Toronto sidewalk. A man invoking Beijing’s law as a license to execute believers in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance is importing a police-state slogan onto Canadian soil.
Toronto Police Service should preserve every second of the original audio, identify the speaker, and determine whether the words meet the Criminal Code test for uttering threats, alongside possible assault and mischief. The Ontario Attorney General and federal public-safety officials should not treat this as a noisy quarrel between “community groups.” If the speaker is linked to United Front work or consular direction, that belongs in an RCMP and CSIS file.
Canada already knows the pattern: harassment of Falun Gong practitioners, pressure on families, and hoax bomb threats that disrupted Shen Yun in Toronto this year. A filmed threat to have people shot is the moment when “awareness” must become enforcement.
Investigate the video. Transcribe the audio. Charge whoever broke the law. Give the targeted practitioners a public accounting. A democracy does not prove its values by lecturing Beijing. It proves them by making clear that “I’m going to shoot all of you” is a crime in Canada, not a talking point from another country’s statute book.
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Canada has a CCP problem.
It’s time we stop ignoring it.
🚨 “I’m going to shoot all of you!” Canada Must Treat a Death Threat on a Toronto Sidewalk as a Crime
A free country is judged by what it allows on an ordinary street. Circulating video from Toronto shows a man wearing a People’s Republic of China flag patch confronting Falun Gong practitioners at a public display, grabbing banners that read “Stop Persecution of Falun Gong” and “Stop CCP Transnational Repression,” and leaving poles and signs on the ground. On the original audio, he can be heard saying: “The Ethnic Unity Law is now in effect. I’m going to shoot all of you.”
That is not political argument. It is an alleged death threat, delivered in Canada, against people exercising a Charter right to worship and to protest. A Chinese statute has no force on a Toronto sidewalk. A man invoking Beijing’s law as a license to execute believers in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance is importing a police-state slogan onto Canadian soil.
Toronto Police Service should preserve every second of the original audio, identify the speaker, and determine whether the words meet the Criminal Code test for uttering threats, alongside possible assault and mischief. The Ontario Attorney General and federal public-safety officials should not treat this as a noisy quarrel between “community groups.” If the speaker is linked to United Front work or consular direction, that belongs in an RCMP and CSIS file.
Canada already knows the pattern: harassment of Falun Gong practitioners, pressure on families, and hoax bomb threats that disrupted Shen Yun in Toronto this year. A filmed threat to have people shot is the moment when “awareness” must become enforcement.
Investigate the video. Transcribe the audio. Charge whoever broke the law. Give the targeted practitioners a public accounting. A democracy does not prove its values by lecturing Beijing. It proves them by making clear that “I’m going to shoot all of you” is a crime in Canada, not a talking point from another country’s statute book.
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On the original audio, he can be heard saying: “The (PRC) Ethnic Unity Law is now in effect. I’m going to shoot all of you.”
@TorontoPolice @TPSOperations @ONAttorneyGen @Safety_Canada @rcmpgrcpolice @csiscanada
Charge whoever broke the law. Give the targeted practitioners a public accounting!
That is not political argument. It is an alleged death threat, delivered in Canada, against people exercising a Charter right to worship and to protest. A Chinese statute has no force on a Toronto sidewalk. A man invoking Beijing’s law as a license to execute believers in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance is importing a police-state slogan onto Canadian soil.
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"The (PRC) Ethnic Unity Law is now in effect. I'm going to shoot all of you." He can be heard saying this at 01:18 here:
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🚨 “I’m going to shoot all of you!” Canada Must Treat a Death Threat on a Toronto Sidewalk as a Crime
A free country is judged by what it allows on an ordinary street. Circulating video from Toronto shows a man wearing a People’s Republic of China flag patch confronting Falun Gong practitioners at a public display, grabbing banners that read “Stop Persecution of Falun Gong” and “Stop CCP Transnational Repression,” and leaving poles and signs on the ground. On the original audio, he can be heard saying: “The Ethnic Unity Law is now in effect. I’m going to shoot all of you.”
That is not political argument. It is an alleged death threat, delivered in Canada, against people exercising a Charter right to worship and to protest. A Chinese statute has no force on a Toronto sidewalk. A man invoking Beijing’s law as a license to execute believers in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance is importing a police-state slogan onto Canadian soil.
Toronto Police Service should preserve every second of the original audio, identify the speaker, and determine whether the words meet the Criminal Code test for uttering threats, alongside possible assault and mischief. The Ontario Attorney General and federal public-safety officials should not treat this as a noisy quarrel between “community groups.” If the speaker is linked to United Front work or consular direction, that belongs in an RCMP and CSIS file.
Canada already knows the pattern: harassment of Falun Gong practitioners, pressure on families, and hoax bomb threats that disrupted Shen Yun in Toronto this year. A filmed threat to have people shot is the moment when “awareness” must become enforcement.
Investigate the video. Transcribe the audio. Charge whoever broke the law. Give the targeted practitioners a public accounting. A democracy does not prove its values by lecturing Beijing. It proves them by making clear that “I’m going to shoot all of you” is a crime in Canada, not a talking point from another country’s statute book.
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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has shown principled diplomacy by standing with Ukraine while addressing threats closer to Japan. In her first meeting with President Zelenskyy at the United Nations, she pledged continued Japanese support and sanctions against Russia more than four years into the war. That reliability matters when donor fatigue is growing.
Ukraine’s defense of sovereignty against a larger neighbor that uses force to change borders is not an isolated European issue. It closely resembles the Chinese Communist Party’s military pressure on Taiwan, militarization of disputed seas, and economic coercion against countries that refuse to accept its hierarchy. Beijing’s retaliation after Takaichi stated that a Taiwan contingency could be a survival-threatening situation for Japan—export restrictions and diplomatic pressure—follows the same pattern of punishing independence.
Takaichi has treated the two theaters as linked. She has highlighted Russia-China-North Korea military cooperation and insisted that security in Europe and the Indo-Pacific cannot be separated. Japan has maintained energy and humanitarian aid to Ukraine while strengthening its own defenses and alliances.
International unity remains essential. Divided democracies invite further aggression. Supporting Ukraine and deterring coercion against Taiwan rest on the same principle: force and intimidation must not rewrite borders or political systems. Coordinated aid, sanctions, and credible deterrence send one clear message.
Takaichi’s clarity toward Beijing and consistency toward Kyiv offer a useful example. The international community should match that resolve rather than hoping problems stay contained. Collective action today is far less costly than crisis tomorrow.
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'It is clear that, for over a decade, the Liberal government has progressive-ly mutated the Canadian state into a slavish vehicle for the national interests of communist China'
Thrilled to share my debut with @NEWSMAX:
"Canada: China's Northern Orient"
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Two of the Chinese companies under consideration for Xi Jinping's delegation to Thursday's White House state dinner sit on the Pentagon's list of firms it links to China's military. CATL was added in January 2025. BYD was added in June.
Reuters reported last week that Xi planned to bring companies facing US sanctions, blacklists or regulatory pressure, and that China's commerce ministry was the one contacting them. So the companies weren't deciding whether to go. A ministry was calling them.
On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Xi will probably arrive for his first Washington visit in 11 years without an executive delegation at all, citing people familiar with the plans, who said things could still change. NPR had earlier reported that Beijing asked for more than half of the roughly 100 seats at the dinner to fit its business leaders, and that the White House pushed back.
The 2015 visit is the comparison I keep coming back to. Jack Ma traveled with Xi to Washington state that September and stood in the group photo at a tech forum alongside Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos. In October 2020, Ma gave a speech in Shanghai criticizing China's financial regulators. Beijing halted what would have been Ant Group's record stock listing days later, and Ma dropped out of public view for nearly three months.
A Chinese founder on a state trip is not a free agent pitching American investors. He sits at the table because the Chinese Communist Party put him there, and on this trip, by one source's account, Beijing wanted that table to include companies the Pentagon has flagged for military ties.
Asked about the delegation, China's foreign ministry told the Journal it had no information to provide.
ACI — Aric Chen | Insights
[ Margin Notes ] As the saying goes, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is most likely a duck. No matter how he is packaged, Xi Jinping remains the party boss of the evil Chinese Communist Party. He is not the leader of a normal country. Not a single word he says can be trusted. Do not be fooled by him.
— Aric
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