An Important Note

China does not like it when Canadians question or oppose Chinese state-run businesses taking over Canadian companies, even calling such opposition "immoral":

Beijing’s envoy says it is “immoral” for Canadians to oppose takeovers of their companies by Chinese government-controlled businesses and is denouncing national security scrutiny of these acquisitions.

Chinese ambassador Lu Shaye levied these accusations earlier this week at a symposium on his country’s $1-trillion Belt and Road Initiative to build infrastructure across Asia and Africa and Europe – an event also featuring a senior Canadian government official from the department of Global Affairs.

Mr. Lu, speaking to an Ottawa audience, urged Canada to “adjust its mindset” and embrace the idea that Beijing’s state-owned enterprises are not a national security threat.

He added said it’s futile to “demonize” state-run businesses – which in some cases receive direct or indirect subsidies from Beijing – because they comprise such a significant feature of the Chinese economy.

“Some people in Canada regard Chinese-state owned enterprises as monsters,” Mr. Lu said. “These people attempt to weaken the competitiveness of Chinese enterprises by defamation. These approaches are immoral and will be in vain.”

National security agencies in both Canada and the United States have previously warned that companies owned or partly owned by the Chinese government are not merely profit-seeking operations, but are also prone to passing on information or technology to Beijing and taking business decisions that could conflict with Canadian interests and serve the agenda of the ruling Communist Party of China.

More than 30 Chinese state-owned enterprises listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange have added the Communist Party to their corporate structures over the past year, giving a formal governance role to the entity that heads China’s authoritarian state as President Xi Jinping seeks more influence over these firms. 

Sarah Taylor, director-general of North Asia and Oceania at Global Affairs, shared the stage with Mr. Lu Tuesday night in Ottawa, but did not challenge or address the envoy’s toughly worded criticism. 

Conservative foreign affairs critic Erin O’Toole said Ms. Taylor’s silence was reminiscent of what happened in 2016 when China’s visiting foreign minister publicly berated a Canadian journalist in front of then-foreign affairs minister Stéphane Dion.

To reiterate:

The communist government of China, which kills female infants, disregards bioethics as "Western", forcibly returns North Korean defectors, jails its own dissidents, demolishes churches and threatens war in the Pacific, wags its finger at a country it assumed would play ball. Gobsmacked by the sheer audacity of the Canadian population to complain about the Chinese state assuming control over Canadian-owned businesses, official mouthpieces don't seek to quiet such fears with verifiable information but quell them with admonishments.


To quote:

Mr. Lu, speaking to an Ottawa audience, urged Canada to “adjust its mindset” and embrace the idea that Beijing’s state-owned enterprises are not a national security threat.

Is that an order to disregard this? :

Huawei, the Chinese smartphone giant which has seen its ambitions to break into the U.S. market curbed by U.S. concerns about Chinese espionage, was dealt another blow as Best Buy made plans to stop carrying its phones.

Or this? :

Beginning in 2010, C.I.A. sources in China began disappearing; a dozen were reported executed and several more imprisoned. What had seemed a major success in establishing a network of C.I.A. spies inside China had been turned into a devastating intelligence failure. The C.I.A. and F.B.I., suspecting a mole, went on a secret hunt.Mr. Lee, who had been stationed in Beijing, emerged as a prime suspect. When he stepped off a flight in New York on Jan. 15, he was arrested by the F.B.I. and charged with unlawfully retaining documents related to the national defense.

How much "adjusting" is needed?


Is it like currency-adjusting or steel-dumping?


But I digress ...


Mr. Lu Shaye, Beijing's mouthpiece, was assured by Justin's unending love of China's "basic dictatorship", the rewards of catering to Chinese businessmen and now Sarah Taylor, the director-general of North Asia and Oceania at Global Affairs, whose silence - one is reminded - was akin to Stephane Dion's:

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said it was “irresponsible” of a journalist from the web outlet IPolitics to ask about human rights and the jailing of a Canadian, Kevin Garratt, who is charged with espionage.

Wang appeared visibly angry as he delivered the scolding in the lobby of Global Affairs headquarters at a joint news conference with Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion.

“Your question is full of prejudice and against China and arrogance … I don’t know where that comes from. This is totally unacceptable,” Wang said through a translator.

"And I, for one, welcome our new Chinese communist overlords."

So, in conclusion, do not incur the ire of the Chinese communist state by opposing its globalist designs or questioning it in any way.


One should remember what happened the last time someone did that:

Jesus: still way bigger than Xi Jinping.

(谢谢 beaucoup)