We Don't Have to Trade With China

A place where its wealthy and well-connected people are as without empathy as Justin Trudeau is.

That must be why he likes its "basic dictatorship":

Michael Spavor has appealed his spying conviction in China, according to a person familiar with the matter, in a case diplomatically entwined with U.S. efforts to extradite a top Huawei Technologies Co.

 

This Meng Wanzhou: 

China’s ambassador to Canada spoke with Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou Wednesday as she neared 1,000 days in her fight to avoid extradition to the United States.

According to a statement from the Chinese embassy in Ottawa, Ambassador Cong Peiwu “expressed deep sympathy” to Ms. Meng for her “arbitrary detention,” adding that China “strongly condemns the wrong actions” of Canada in this case.

“The Chinese government is firmly committed to safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese citizens and companies,” Mr. Cong said, according to the statement. “Any attempt to bully or oppress the Chinese people will be severely beaten.”

 

Beaten? Like Falun Gong practitioners?

This Cong: 

Chinese Ambassador Cong Peiwu says the U.S. has not taken any concrete measures to help Canada in its difficulties with China, while the U.S. State Department says Secretary Antony Blinken has ‘raised several cases’ of arbitrarily detained Canadian citizens.

 

Yes, get America to rein us in, Mr. Cong. 

Oh, and the other stuff they did:

Canadians’ support for trade with China fell by more than a tenth from the outbreak of the pandemic, says in-house research by the Department of Foreign Affairs. Reliance on China contractors for medical supplies also prompted Canadians to worry about “pandemic planning” in trade policy: ‘It should ensure preparedness to a great extent.’