We Don't Have to Trade With China

Haven't we surrendered enough of our national dignity and economy to people to persecute their own people and the North Koreans, too?:

Training Chinese troops at Canadian bases. Our allies disagreeing. Secret documents not kept secret. The two kidnapped Canadians. There was literally nothing about it that wasn’t newsworthy. The CBC didn’t try to spin them. They tried to hide them. And they did.

 

These Chinese troops: 

A February 2018 tweet by the Canadian Army shows Canadian soldiers participating in winter training in China with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), and Canada extending an invitation to China to take part in the same training in Petawawa, Ont., at a future date. Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said during question period on Dec. 10 that the engagement was part of a cooperation initiative signed with China back in 2013.

But what caught the attention of Canada-China relations observers the most was internal government documents obtained by Rebel News under an access to information request showing Global Affairs’ push for the Department of National Defence (DND) to maintain military engagement with China. The documents, spanning late December 2018 to May 2019, showed Global Affairs giving this advice after Beijing had just arrested Canadian citizens in early December 2018 following Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.

The documents show that DND cancelled the trainings after pressure from the United States over security concerns.

The guidance in early 2019 from Global Affairs to continue military engagement stood in contrast with interpretations some made of another set of internal Global Affairs documents from late 2019 released by the parliamentary committee on Canada-China relations in February 2020.

To wit: when Justin declared his undying love for a country complicit in the sexual slavery of North Korean women, Canadians thought it was cool.

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Because China's feelings are precious to us:

A top foreign affairs official says China’s history of lashing out means that “sensitive matters” in a long-running espionage case before Canada’s courts should be kept away from public discussion.

Federal prosecutors are seeking to seal documents and close coming courtroom hearings in the criminal case of Qing Quentin Huang, an Ontario shipbuilder who was charged in 2013 with violating the Security of Information Act by allegedly trying to communicate Canadian naval secrets to China.

New public disclosures about this criminal case “would inflame tensions between governments of Canada and China and would necessarily provoke a response harmful to bilateral relations and Canadian interests,” writes Weldon Epp, a Global Affairs Canada director-general who now runs a bureau of 60 civil servants. He writes that the coming courtroom hearings in the case “could risk causing harm to individual Canadian lives.”

 

That is total bullsh-- and he knows it. China does not value the sanctity of human life.

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Then there is no need for industrial espionage in Canada, is there?:

And he said his 2011 role as a delegate to Beijing’s People’s Political Consultative Conference was purely as an observer and to introduce “fresh air” to the Communist Party advisory body.

Wu said an October article in the National Post outlining his alleged China connections — quoting from some of those Chinese-language articles — had damaged him “physically, mentally, spiritually.”

In fact, he said in an interview Tuesday, his limited affiliations with universities in China have helped bring top-notch students and research expertise to Canada.

 

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The Chinese regime exploited vulnerabilities in the global mobile telecommunications network to conduct “mass surveillance” on Americans, according to a recent report by a cyber research firm.