And it doesn't care who knows it or who points out the utter immorality of trading with this oppressive octopus:
Our current federal government got that spectacularly wrong with our former man in Beijing, John McCallum, who famously said upon his appointment as Canadian ambassador to China that his policy was “more, more, more” — whatever China wanted, McCallum wanted more of it. ...
Six days after the first coronavirus case arrived in Ontario in January 2020 — a passenger from Wuhan, China — president Donald Trump restricted flights from China to the U.S., barring non-citizens from arrival. That mightily upset China, so Trudeau took China’s side, not imposing flight restrictions for another six weeks.
While the American administration was launching Operation Warp Speed to produce a vaccine in less than a year — despite the entire public health bureaucracy saying that it simply could not be done — the federal government’s main vaccine strategy was designed to help China portray itself as the solution, not the source, of the global pandemic.
How a joint venture with CanSino, part of the vast apparatus of the Chinese armed forces, would advance Canadian interests was never clear. Sometimes there is no fig leaf large enough to shroud naked appeasement, and so the federal Liberals had to drop that foolish project.
On the matter of allowing Huawei to siphon off Canadian data by providing 5G infrastructure, the federal Liberals were too timid even to follow the lead of our chief allies. Our ambassadors in London and Canberra were likely reminded that their country was China, too. So the decision to exclude Huawei was off-loaded to Canada’s own telecommunication companies. ...
The same is being done on the question of whether Canada should participate, 1936 style, in the Beijing winter Olympics next February. That decision has been off-loaded to the sports federations, though it is likely that a quiet word will be had about our athletes declining invitations to tour the concentration camps where Muslim minorities are interned. ...
Appeasement of China has been a multi-generational, bipartisan affair in Canada, which reached its nadir during the post-Tiananmen rehabilitation of the Chinese communists by Jean Chrétien. But that same rot is well advanced in the current government, the disease of appeasement being planted at the very beginning.
Peter Harder was appointed head of transition for the Trudeau government after its 2015 election victory. Harder, a former deputy minister of foreign affairs and just about everything else, also served as president of the Canada China Business Council, which serves as a sort of volunteer auxiliary to the Chinese foreign ministry. It was to the CCBC that outgoing Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil recently submitted what must be presumed his job application for some lucrative Chinese lobbying work, grovelling with the best of them. After all, when it comes to kidnapping foreign nationals and covering up a global pandemic, McNeil takes the McCallum line: “Let’s go learn!” he enthused.
(Sidebar: this Peter Harder.)
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China’s envoy to Canada is telling Canadian parliamentarians to butt out of his country’s internal affairs through their pending vote on declaring a genocide against ethnic Muslim Uighurs in its Xinjiang province.
Cong Peiwu, the Chinese ambassador to Canada, reiterated his government’s view that there is no mistreatment of Uighurs, labelling accusations from the United Nations and others that millions of people in detention camps are being subjected to forced labour and sterilization as unfounded China bashing.
The Liberal cabinet will abstain from voting on a motion that would recognize China’s treatment of its ethnic Muslim Uighurs as a genocide, a senior government official has confirmed with Global News.
The vote is expected to take place late Monday afternoon. All other parties have signified they will be voting in favour of the motion.
Earlier on Monday, Conservatives urged Liberals to vote in favour of their party’s motion to recognize China’s treatment of its ethnic Muslim Uighurs as genocide.
(Sidebar: this moral posturing, which will not transform into any concrete action against China, echoes what the Liberals did with regard to the Yazidis.)
Reports have recently surfaced of violent gang rape against religious minorities detained in Chinese concentration camps in Xinjiang.
Qelbinur Sidik, who was forced to teach inside the camps, made the allegations in an interview published by CNN this week. CNN’s report relied solely on the accounts of alleged witnesses.
Sidik’s story begins by noting that a policewoman told her very early on that she had been assigned to investigate reports of rapes and torture taking place at the facility. Sidik said that the policewoman described to her how the male guards at the camp often bragged while drinking about how they “raped and tortured girls.”
Sidik said that her first encounter with new detainees was approximately 100 men and women who were chained in shackles around their hands and feet. She said that even those that came in physically and mentally strong eventually were broken by the brutal system that the communist Chinese had installed in the camps, where an estimated nearly 2 million religious minorities are being detained. She said that she witnessed “horrific traged[ies]” while working at the camp where women were regularly “crying loudly.”
(Sidebar: how similar to the North Koreans.)
This is the same China that the Liberals (and therefore Canada) will not deplore even symbolically. Soon, the Liberals will free Meng Wanzhou with effusive apologies.
Every dictatorship has its supporters and apologists.
China has found that with Canada.
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