Canterbury Mornings

University of Canterbury professor Anne-Marie Brady is a specialist in Chinese politics.She joins Chris Lynch to discuss her decision to co-sign an open letter to The Communist Party of China.Listen to the interview above.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------An open letter to Chinese citizens and friends of China at home and abroad from parliamentarians, academics, advocates and policy leaders.The current global crisis has been caused by the regime so many of you have been tolerating or supporting for decades.On 2 April 2020, a group of one hundred Chinese establishment scholars wrote an open letter decrying the “many critical voices politicising the COVID-19 pandemic”. They stated that “(at) this stage of the pandemic, the exact source and origin of COVID-19 remain undetermined, but these questions are unimportant and finger pointing is demeaning and hurtful to everyone”. They also argued against what they alleged is the politicising of the ep