To raise her profile and gain experience, she ran for and won the title of Miss World Canada in 2015. But she wasn’t allowed a visa to re-enter China for the final Miss World pageant. Her presentation at the Canadian pageant had been on how China harvest organs from prisoners.
Lin has been on the front pages of global newspapers, given talks at Oxford and other universities, met with leading politicians and worked in the film industry, all while getting out the message China’s leaders are infiltrating the West and bullying dissenters.
One of the accusations the Chinese Communist Party and its backers make against anyone who tries to speak out is they are fomenting anti-Chinese racism, said Lin. But while aware any ethnic group can be stereotyped, she said “Chinese leaders do it to try to shield themselves from being scrutinized for their brutal human-rights abuses in China. They claim they’re Chinese people’s protector. But it’s the biggest hypocrisy.”
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