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In the few weeks since Carney’s visit to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other communist leaders, Canadians have learned that the new strategic partnership announced between the two countries was much more than trade negotiations related to canola and EV cars. There were multiple agreements made and MOUs signed that have established police and law enforcement cooperation in the name of “public safety and security,” increased access for Chinese media and communications in Canada, and alignment on government policy for climate change objectives and global governance agendas, including Canada’s recognition of the One China Policy.
Former Canadian ambassador to China, David Mulroney, questioned Carney’s deal making with Beijing, as the government seems to be willfully ignoring serious issues of foreign interference in Canada and dismissing China’s longstanding strategic foreign affairs objective of pulling Canada away from its traditional allies.
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Mulroney warns of the real possibility of the country becoming a “vassal state” of China. In a post this week on X, Mulroney stated: “Our relationship loop with China is now in its See No Evil phase, in which the government pretends that interference is inevitable and can be managed. This will last until interference becomes so egregious and corrosive that it’s impossible to ignore. Give it a year or so.”
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The wisdom of the Carney Liberals to advance new, more entangled relations with the CCP is being brought into question almost daily with new revelations about what the deals may contain and new facts emerging about how nefarious the CCP activities have been in Canada. This is an unfolding story that just this week featured two major news items, which reflected new light on the Canada-China strategic partnership. First, Conservative MPs Micheal Chong and Frank Caputo called on the government to release the details of the MOU on intelligence sharing between China’s Ministry of Public Security and Canada’s RCMP. The government has deemed the MOU “confidential” and does not intend on releasing any details to MPs. This is disconcerting for Garry Clement, former national director of the RCMP’s proceeds-of-crime program, who advises in an Epoch Times interview that the new police agreement may potentially permit the CCP to “capitalize on intelligence,” and this can jeopardize Canada’s credibility with its allies, with the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, and with diaspora groups, who already are unnerved with CCP police stations operating in Canadian cities.
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A second breaking news story this week is a published report that details how the CCP is directing espionage and foreign interference operations throughout western democracies, and Canada is a particular target. The report’s investigation identifies 575 Beijing-linked organizations that are active in Canada: “the Party’s weapon that it uses to expand control and influence without force.” In response, the MLI held a quickly arranged news conference in Ottawa at which Christopher Coates, its foreign policy and national security director, stated, “The question is no longer whether this is happening. The question is whether Canada is prepared to respond with the seriousness that the evidence demands.” Indeed, that is the question.
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We need to make our relationship with China closer to “neutral”, as our relationship with the US is forced to become more adversarial.
Yeah, they’re seeming pretty comparable as partners these days. The US is much closer, but we still can do business with China, or play them off of each other by giving them both a fairly equal chance.
Mandatory mention of Europe.
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China’s atrocoties against Uyghurs, Tibetans, and other minorities within the country, its increasingly aggressive behaviour against its Asian neighbours on land and at sea, transnational repression and political interferences in Canada (Canada is among the most targeted countries worldwide by China in that respect), death threats by Chinese officials against officials of other governments (Japan) and even entire populations (Japan, Australia), … the list is too long for a comment here …
And that is nothing compared to the usa attrocities and canadian complicity with them . Even the Iraq war we were pretending to be against it while we shared inteligence with the american. We also have our weapons in both Sudan and Gaza
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That’s always the same empty propaganda rant.
China’s invasions happened long time ago, but the genocides in East Turkestan, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia are not only still going on but have been intensified in the recent decade.
And it’s not the ‘ruling class’ that wants a free Tibet but the Tibetans.
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Yeah, in some ways the US is worse. China loves stability, the US actively undercutting it right now. They’ve both become nationalist bullies, so that’s a wash. The one thing the US has going for it is that there’s still a kind of preponderance of democratic structures and liberal values left. If they fully go away, like a lot of us on Lemmy are expecting, being close by (geographically and, if it matters, culturally) will be their only advantage.
Over the long term it’s possible China will shift towards democracy as well. Their story is just beginning.
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Sure, and Everbody Loves Marineland™. Or some other such marketing copy.
Happy lunar new years. I’m celebrating, you may or may not be, as a poser.
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The USSR would have too, if they had any - they weren’t just faking it.
Since you’re clearly just trolling for a reaction now, I may or may not respond further.
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