We Don't Have to Trade With China

We've emboldened the octopus enough:

Thousands of Hong Kongers have already made the sometimes painful decision to leave behind their hometown and move to Britain since Beijing imposed a strict national security law on the Chinese territory last summer. Their numbers are expected to swell to the hundreds of thousands.

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The Canadian government received a first indication of a Canadian dual-national prisoner in Hong Kong being required to make such a declaration on January 18, said Christelle Chartrand, a spokesperson for Global Affairs. “We are aware of more such incidences involving dual national of other countries,” she said.

Canada has expressed its concern to the Hong Kong government and is seeking additional information from local authorities on any changes to the treatment of dual nationals.

Rather, the Liberals are dragging their feet instead of standing up to their Chinese bosses.

That's right - apologise to your bosses:

Canada said it regretted a “misunderstanding” after China lodged a formal complaint over a diplomat’s order of a custom T-shirt displaying the word Wuhan, the city where the COVID-19 pandemic first emerged, over the emblem of hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan.

The logo of the American group is a stylized “W.” Reports of the T-shirt order circulating on China’s Twitter-like Weibo described it as depicting a bat, without mentioning Wu-Tang Clan. Many scientists suspect bats to have been a reservoir for COVID-19 before it jumped to humans.

It was not immediately clear how images of the T-shirt logo, which the Canadian Embassy said was created early last year, came to circulate on Chinese social media.

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China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi warned the Biden administration not to cross Beijing’s “red line” in a half-hour speech on the evening of Feb. 1.

“The United States should stop interference in the affairs of Hong Kong, Tibet, and Xinjiang,” Yang said, calling the issues regarding the three regions China’s “internal affairs.” He made the remarks while speaking at a virtual event hosted by New York-based nonprofit the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.

Yang added: “They constitute a red line that must not be crossed. Any trespassing would end up undermining China-U.S. relations and the United States’ own interests.”