Trudeau Didn't Stand Up to China, Is Not Standing Up to China and Will Never Stand Up to China

The coward is a willing accomplice to Canada's ruin and sale to that global octopus.

But don't take my word for it:

Canada owes no debts to its allies, including the United States, for their help in standing up to China and bringing the Meng Wanzhou-two Michaels affair to a close, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

 

Yes, you moron, about that:

What we know for sure, despite official denials, is that the men’s liberation was a closely co-ordinated arrangement that depended on a plea deal in the United States to settle criminal charges against Meng, the Chinese telecom executive, whose arrest infuriated China’s central government.  

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Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou entered into a plea deal (a “deferred prosecution agreement”) with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sept. 24. According to the statement released from the DOJ Office of Public Affairs, Meng “has taken responsibility for her principal role in perpetrating a scheme to defraud a global financial institution.” In admitting her crimes, including knowingly making false statements about Huawei’s operations in Iran (which is under U.S. trade sanctions), she agreed “not to commit other federal, state or local crimes.”

If she subsequently commits any of these acts, she would be subject to apprehension and prosecution for the deferred crimes listed in the agreement.

And by the way, the U.S. extradition request to Canada that was initiated by the Trump administration was rescinded, allowing Meng to return in triumph to China in exchange for two Canadians being held there, pending trials on trumped-up charges. The DOJ sees no harm and no foul.

(Sidebar: now, give Huawei what it wants, Justin. There's a good lap dog.)

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It would be churlish to question Barton’s “service and commitment” in Canada’s effort to cajole Chinese strongman Xi Jinping into releasing Kovrig and Spavor. Xi ordered them kidnapped in a tantrum over Canada’s December 2018 detention of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. Justice Department extradition request. 

(Sidebar: this Dominic Barton.)

But that effort was quixotic, it was bound to fail, and of course it did. And that failure can’t be pinned on Barton. At the same time, despite the Liberal spin machine, neither can Barton be credited with having had anything of consequence to do with the Mikes’ return to Canada after 1,019 days of captivity on September 24. His role was mostly that of a consular officer and an extravagantly-credentialed flight attendant on the Royal Canadian Air Force Challenger that landed in Calgary that night with Kovrig and Spavor aboard.

What Minister Joly would not want remembered about the whole saga and its denouement is that nothing the Trudeau government did, including the circulation of a petition among UN member states opposing hostage diplomacy (the petition didn’t even mention China) can be credited for the Mikes’ release. U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration doesn’t deserve any credit for it either, but at least Biden’s people aren’t claiming any. 

 

(Sidebar: this Joly who parroted the lie that both Michaels were, as China claimed, guilty of a crime and not hostages. Stupid b!#ch. What does one expect from a debutante?) 

Justin can be a bald-faced liar as long as he wishes because no one will ever challenge his feverishly egotistical version of events.

Now, it's back to China running Canada, as usual.

This China:

The Conservative leader pulled his party’s MPs from the committee last spring to protest the Liberal government’s refusal to hand over unredacted documents related to the firing of two scientists from Canada’s highest security laboratory.

 

(Sidebar: rather, Erin O'Toole has no desire to get to the bottom of this crime of epidemiological proportions.) 

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Citing unreasonable delays in a national-security case, a judge has stayed the eight-year-long criminal prosecution of a man accused by CSIS and the RCMP of trying to leak state secrets to China.

Justice Michael Dambrot of the Ontario Superior Court said he would release his reasoning in the coming days.

Pending an appeal, the decision Wednesday ends Canada’s marathon prosecution of Qing Quentin Huang, an Ontario shipbuilding engineer. In 2013, he was charged under the Security of Information Act (SOIA) after authorities alleged he was caught on tape trying “to communicate to a foreign entity information that the Government of Canada was taking measures to safeguard.”

Experts say this marks the first time that the principle of a timely trial has scuttled criminal charges involving allegations of the leaking of state secrets. Legal rights giving crime suspects access to trials without unreasonable delay were first affirmed in Canada’s 1982 Charter of Rights. They were bolstered through a Supreme Court of Canada ruling five years ago.

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Twenty years later we can only begin to describe how wrong the assessments were about China and how damaging this single decision has been to the global economic order. China and the Chinese Communist Party have regressed in all areas of human rights and democratization. The U.S. and others have labeled China as practicing genocide against China's Uyghur minority populations and reports of organ harvesting in China continue. Its regressive actions against the freedom movement in Hong Kong and threats against Taiwan are only the top line examples that show China has not become more like us.

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Liberal MPs yesterday said any federal boycott of China-made pandemic masks might breach trade treaties. Opposition members on the Commons government operations committee tried and failed to pass a motion recommending federal agencies use only Canadian-made products: “Get rid of the Chinese masks, okay?”

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China is pressuring German car parts giant Continental to stop using components made in Lithuania, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, amid a dispute between Beijing and the Baltic state over the status of Taiwan.

 

(Sidebar: this honey-badger called Lithuania.)

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The former chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry Department accused of hiding Chinese ties had admitted to taking tens of thousands of dollars from China, video footage presented in federal court on Dec. 17 shows.

The footage, shot during an interrogation by federal investigators of nanoscientist Charles Lieber, was played for jurors on the fourth day of the trial regarding Lieber’s alleged false statements about China funding.

The 62-year-old Harvard professor had maintained that he didn’t take payments from a Chinese university, except for compensation of his travel costs to China. But he shifted his story quickly after FBI agents Robert Plumb and Kara Spice presented him with copies of evidence, including a bilingual contract he signed with the Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in 2011.

“That’s pretty damning,” Lieber, dressed in a blue jacket, told the agents at the campus police station during a three-hour interrogation, which took place on the day of Lieber’s arrest nearly two years ago, local media outlets reported. “Now that you bring it up, yes, I do remember.”

 

I'll bet you do.