Even as President Xi Jinping criticized the PM at the G20 summit, Canada is still trying to do business with Beijing.
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So it didn’t end up as planned, exactly. It was a bit like December 2017, when Trudeau jetted off to Beijing, expecting to be greeted as a long-lost son entering his father’s house, only to be spurned in his proposal for a free-trade agreement with “progressive” flourishes and baubles in it to make it more palatable to the “Canadian values” top of mind among ordinary Canadians. He was sent away empty-handed.
It’s not some long-overdue penny-dropping after years of naïveté. All the talk from Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland aboutand from François-Philippe Champagne about “decoupling” critical supply chains with Chinese links in them, and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly’s promises that honest, that new China policy we’ve been promising for years is finally in the hopper — it all comes down to a very simple and sobering fact.
It went unnoticed, but a couple of weeks ago in Ottawa a clear picture of the stakes was painted by Evan Feigenbaum, formerly the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and currently vice-president of the influential Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Feigenbaum was speaking at a forum convened by the comically Beijing-friendly Institute for Peace and Diplomacy and the Asia Pacific Foundation, a favourite of Trudeau’s foreign-policy brains trust.
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