Additionally, Mr Chan is the patron of the Kampung Chai Chee Citizen Consultative Committee and the Bukit Timah Community Club Management Committee, and serves as a member of the resource mobilization and partnership committee of the charity organization SPD.
The People’s Association announced in a statement on February 2 that he had resigned from all grassroots appointments.
From April 2011 to May 2019, Mr Chan wrote approximately 30 articles for Singapore’s Chinese-language news outlet Lianhe Caobao, mainly in his capacity as Kowloon Club chairman.
Most of them were published as part of Zaobao’s regular column in the Crossroads section, of which he was one of the guest contributors. One article appeared in the opinion section and his other on the paper’s forum page.
Zaobao editor Goh Xin Teck said: “Crossroads aimed to promote understanding and integration of new immigrants into the community and promote mutual understanding between Singaporeans. This section he discontinued publication in 2019.”
Additionally, “Mr. Chan’s writings often include his personal reflections and insights gleaned through his real estate profession, as well as his work on immigration, such as the assimilation of new immigrants into the local society.” It also includes problems,” he added.
In October 2019, Mr Chan received a warning from police after he moderated a public meeting to discuss protests over Hong Kong’s extradition law without permission.
In an earlier interview with China Headlines New Media, Zhang said being abroad exposes him to a variety of voices about China, adding that China is often at a disadvantage in the battle of public opinion. Ta.
He said that different news organizations have different positions, and there are differences in coverage of the same news.
“For example, despite China’s outstanding and exemplary contribution in the global fight against the coronavirus, a growing number of foreign news media discredit China’s fight against the disease.”
He also said the West was distorting the truth about China, calling China’s diplomatic style “wolf warrior diplomacy” and using terms such as “debt trap” to describe the Belt and Road Initiative. He pointed out that it was.
“Western media has seriously undermined China’s credibility. I believe we cannot rely solely on official messages delivered by Chinese diplomats in public.”
“We must focus more on mobilizing righteous people abroad to speak out for justice and join us in spreading the truth and exposing the hypocrisy of fake news in the West. be.”
He added: “We believe that it is more persuasive, more effective, and therefore very important, for us to point our weapons at them.”