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The Globe and Mail column, “Let’s free ourselves of the U.S. and forge closer ties with China”, by Julian Karaguesian and Robin Shaban, reveals a troubling lack of historical awareness and strategic judgment.
Marketed as a call for Canadian economic independence, it amounts to an argument for deeper dependence on an authoritarian regime that uses coercive diplomacy, illicit finance and political interference to erode democratic sovereignty.
Canadians should reject the notion that closer alignment with Beijing strengthens our independence. The opposite is demonstrably true.
The authors praise China’s economic dynamism and technological progress but ignore the context in which these gains were made. They are not the result of fair-market innovation, but of systematic intellectual property theft, forced technology transfers and vast state subsidies that distort global competition.
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Proposing deeper technological engagement with a regime known for embedding backdoors in products like Huawei hardware, which Canadian security agencies have flagged as a national security risk, and for weaponizing supply chains is dangerously naïve. This isn’t innovation; it’s strategic infiltration that introduces unacceptable risks into Canada’s economic infrastructure.
Equating Canada’s alliance with the U.S. to strategic subservience misrepresents the nature of cooperation in a rules-based international order.
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Beijing has made clear it does not operate as a predictable or principled partner. Its use of retaliatory diplomacy — such as the politically motivated detention of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, bans on Canadian agricultural exports and the expansion of United Front influence operations (covert and overt efforts by the Chinese Communist Party to sway public opinion and policy abroad)—demonstrates a pattern of intimidation.
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Replacing that [U.S.] alliance with exposure to a regime that jails dissidents, manipulates international institutions and conducts cyberespionage on Canadian citizens is not diversification. It’s submission.
Canada should not trade the open architecture of the Atlantic alliance for Beijing’s authoritarian opacity. Strategic autonomy cannot be built on intimidation and coercion. We must engage the world, but with eyes open and principles intact.
@Tiger666@lemmy.ca
This is, of course, rubbish.
That aside, I am not sure what you want to say with this and your other statements.
Should Canada ignore the U.S.’ bullying and coercion now?
Or only China’s bullying and coercion?
Shouldn’t Canada improve its democratic institution ‘to not fool ourselves’?
Just business as usual as if nothing happened?
You seem to actively post pleas to keep Canada accepting US propaganda on who Canada’s enemies should be.
Canada is currently supporting a US war/murder rampage on Venezuela that has no valid pretense. It fully validates any lie the POTUS makes up to attack anyone, which he is using against Canada right now.
Scumbags who write and promote such Op Eds do so to force Canada to only rely on investment blessed from their/our colonial master, and we must all die waiting for it to happen as our only option.
So should Canada ignore the U.S.’ bullying and coercion now? Or only China’s bullying and coercion?
Canada, as US colonial lapdog, has history of bullying China. Canada should stop bullying China and get closer to humanist world. It is ONLY by distancing from US on militarism that US can reduce its overall evil, or at least treat Canada as a better slave for cooperation with its evil.
How did Canada do that?
Canada has supported anti-China policies for a very long time. Longer than it has been Canada, in fact. What club is Canada part of? What is the opium wars? Let’s talk about Hong Kong. Boxer rebellion anybody? Please stop swallowing American and Western propaganda and think for yourself.
Huawei VP arrest, Philippines defense pact, following US orders on EV tariffs with no contact whatsoever with China. All of the baseless US propaganda against China getting repeated. Foreign interference absolute BS, compared to CIA allegiance of every political party leader. The absolute evil of this Op Ed, or your previous posted one, that Canada must continue lap dog yapping at China to DETER it from responding to Taiwan lap dog provoking war on China. The BS that China might want Arctic resources means we must build military centered around fighting humanity in Arctic instead of inviting China to make investments we have no intention to. It’s all abhorrent demonic traitorous evil to anchor ourselves to a sinking US ship.