Comment by jszymborski
9 months ago
China hasn't threatened to make Canada a Chinese province so given no friendly alternative, I'd 100% buy the Chinese model.
9 months ago
China hasn't threatened to make Canada a Chinese province so given no friendly alternative, I'd 100% buy the Chinese model.
and a whole lot of stuff coming from the US to Canada, is just transhipped made in China products, so Canadians could do well from establishing new supply chains......aaaaand reversing that trend:)
China is the Nazi Germany of our time. USA has a long long way to go before that no matter how much you hate the orange man.
Given Tibet, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Xinjiang, that is possibly the worst example you could have chosen.
First, it's not an example I'm replying directly to the question.
Second, as a Canadian, I'm primarily concerned with the sovereignty of my country. Given both powers are expansionist, I'll take the one that isn't personally threatening me.
As mentioned in my previous comment, given a choice to deal with a non-expansionist, free democracy, I'd much quicker patronize them.
China is operating police stations in your country [1,2], subverting your elections [3,4], and got you to pass a trade agreement tilted wildly in their favor [5,6]. If you're worried about real sovereignty, your top current threat is China, that will happily pull the strings while letting you have sovereignty in name only.
[1] Why are Chinese police operating in Canada, while our own government and security services apparently look the other way? - https://web.archive.org/web/20220926120429/https://www.thegl...
[2] Canada police probe alleged Chinese 'police stations' in Montreal - https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-police-probe-a...
[3] CSIS documents reveal Chinese strategy to influence Canada’s 2021 election - https://web.archive.org/web/20230217155126/https://www.thegl...
[4] CSIS documents reveal a web of Chinese influence in Canada - https://web.archive.org/web/20230227134241/https://www.thegl...
[5] Canadian governments are locked in for a generation. If Canada finds the deal unsatisfactory, it cannot be cancelled completely for 31 years. China benefits much more than Canada, because of a clause allowing existing restrictions in each country to stay in place. Chinese companies get to play on a relatively level field in Canada, while maintaining wildly arbitrary practices and rules for Canadian companies in China. - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/fipa-agreement-with-china-wha...
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada-China_Promotion_and_Rec...
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I can't wrap my head around how your comment is relevant at all.
Any of those places a place in Canada?
Nor has the US. One particular person in the US has talked about that. I don't particularly see how it's justified to take it out on a country of 300 million people when the vast majority of them aren't responsible for what you object to.
The leader represents the country because the votes of the citizens put him in power. Nobody else in the US government with a similar amount of power has rejected or denied the 51st state rhetoric. This is what worries Canadians: nobody is stopping the American president. There are no checks and balances.
It's not just one guy it's THE one guy that really matters. And a majority of voters picked that guy.
I guess I’ll be the “technically” guy and point out that’s not true. Trump has more votes than any other candidate, but the majority of voters were for Harris or 3rd party.
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It's only the president of the United States vaguely threatening war against another country. It's not like his opinion matters or anything.