Hot Docs 2019: Ai Weiwei takes a step back to observe the rest of humanity’s flow GlobeArts
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Every state has its own policy; they won’t accept this, they won’t accept that. Is that right? You see European nations who say, “We will not even accept one,” those nations that produced refugees during World War Two, such as Czech [Republic], such as Poland. The refugee situation is not just about the people in Syria or Afghanistan or Pakistan, but rather about our society, our humanity, our understanding of compassion.
It’s not really a regional problem, it is much larger than that. If you really want to talk about solutions – not just to the refugee problem but to today’s Canada-China dispute or the U.S.-China situation – we have to re-examine our total condition globally: politics, capitalism, socialism. We have to come up with solutions to dealing with the environment, humanity. What are the most meaningful, profound values we all have to protect – it doesn’t matter what religion or society.
I function like a Chinese doctor. Feel the pulse. Canada is a brand-new society compared to others; in many ways it is quite innocent. It has its own perspective, it has new values, it is more open, more rational. It is defending the rule of law. Those are core values, and it doesn’t matter who you are dealing with, those values should be held as important. It gives Canada its own identity. Now, China, the U.S.
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