We Don't Have to Trade With China

The new boss is the same as the old boss:

Last month, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand returned from a cordial meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing to declare that China, no longer a “disruptive global power,” was to be viewed in Canada as a “strategic partner” in a dangerous world. “There are going to always be challenges in any relationship,” she said, referring to China’s punishing tariffs on Canadian soybeans, yellow peas and certain fisheries products, and Canada’s efforts to stop China’s dumping of steel and flooding the Canadian market with its overproduction of electrical vehicles.

It helps to recall that Carney developed intimate ties with Chinese officials during his years as head of Brookfield Asset Management, backing China’s efforts to elevate the Yuan to rival the U.S. dollar, and praising Xi Jinping’s focus on the development of Artificial Intelligence — a focus the Chinese surveillance state has deployed to manipulate and manage Chinese public opinion. After his meeting with Xi Jinping — the first between Canadian and Chinese leaders in eight years — Carney said he was looking forward to working more closely with supreme leader Xi to “help build a more sustainable, inclusive international system.”