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Canadian PM Carney rejects boosting trade ties with China, points to Europe
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this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2025
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I can understand that that would be his official answer.
But for both Europe and Canada, friendly relations with China are beneficial to counter US hostility.
I never expected that I would ever say that, but here we are.
Friendly relations are always good, but China is the same hostile country as before. Nothing has changed. As Mr. Carney says, "We obviously do have a large amount of trade with them[China], but we have to be very careful, very deliberate, and they need to meet Canadian standards.” The same is true for European standards.
China is an active threat to Europe as, for example, it supports Russia in its war against Ukraine, it conducts sabotage and subversion, thus tries to aggressively undermine stability, and attempts to gain influence by controlling global global supply chains and information through technology in order to spread their totalitarian system across the globe.
“There are partners in Asia with whom we can build deeper ties. But the partners in Asia that share our values don’t include China.”
For the past few months, China has been basically:
-> do nothing -> win
This is a good position from Canada, but we also shouldn't try to pick a fight with China when we have too many threats already. Guess we'll be reactive towards China for now.