Anastasia Lin is an extraordinary beauty queen. She is also an actress. And a human-rights advocate.
Last year, she was crowned Miss World Canada. But the international competition was held in China — and the dictatorship blocked her from coming. They declared her “persona non grata.”
She earned that designation from these monsters: She has spoken out against their crimes — their persecution, their killing, their organ-harvesting — and has acted in films depicting those crimes.
After she was crowned Miss World Canada, her father, who still lives in China, was subjected to terrible pressure. Evil is the regime that breaks up families, or tries to. Evil is the regime that holds a population in the grip of lies, and tries to smash any truth-teller.
At the Oslo Freedom Forum, I recorded a Q&A with Anastasia Lin. For that podcast, go here. She has profound things to say about, among other subjects, the West’s constant appeasement of the Chinese Communist Party.
Do we have to be complicit in the CCP’s crimes? No. It’s that we choose to.