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“China is the No. 1 threat to Canada and has been for some time,” David Mulroney, former ambassador to China, said in an interview. China has used its economic leverage to secure “the voices” of political and business leaders in Canada with “sweetheart business deals” and “various inducements,” including lucrative board positions or honours in China, he said. And as a result, Mulroney said he often hears people reciting Beijing’s line on issues such as the extradition case of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou or are silent in the face of China’s mass detention of Uyghurs and incursions on democracy in Hong Kong.“There are people a lot more senior than I was in government, and they have some serious business links with China,” Mulroney said. “China is very willing to weaponize trade and investment to compel people to say what they want them to say.”...“Canada is kind of a sleepy and unaware target,” he said. “We don’t have the same kind of vigilance that you now see in places like Australia and New Zealand. That had better change.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/7275588/inside-the-chinese-military-attack-on-nortel/Canada is still far too complacent, The RCMP says it still doesn't have the resources to investigate and monitor these activities and Canada still lacks the strong laws on industrial espionage that exist in countries like the US and Australia. There is no criminal law protecting trade secrets or intellectual property in Canada.
I think we should give this a lot of credence, and so do our other allies like the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. China isn't our friend, Wuhan Waldo. -k
how much credence are you prepared to give to U.S. 'Trump-era' politicization of claimed infringement on intellectual property... particularly when Trump scuttled the TPP and in so doing... the American/Obama admin led efforts towards including TPP provisional coverage for IP in areas such as patents and pharmaceuticals, copyright, Internet service provider (ISP) liability, and IP rights enforcement? How much credence, hey?
I think we should give this a lot of credence, and so do our other allies like the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. China isn't our friend, Wuhan Waldo.
Maybe waldo still shares his hero's admiration for China's "basic dictatorship". I'm hoping JT has grown out of it.
There’s a level of admiration I actually have for China, because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say, ‘We need to go green … we need to start investing in solar.'
member wilber, although provided many times previously let me showcase your intellectual dishonesty and provide the full statement/context; made in 2013 before PM Trudeau became PM Trudeau... and I believe, and will stand to be corrected, before PM Trudeau even became the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada:
It has allowed China to do a lot of other things as well.
no shyte Sherlock! But that's YOU taking a most pointed comment and applying it broadly to "anything/everything"! As I said, that's your intellectual dishonesty in how you're choosing to use/leverage the initial comment.
Quote from: wilber on August 25, 2020, 12:47:09 pmMaybe waldo still shares his hero's admiration for China's "basic dictatorship". I'm hoping JT has grown out of it.member wilber, although provided many times previously let me showcase your intellectual dishonesty and provide the full statement/context; made in 2013 before PM Trudeau became PM Trudeau... and I believe, and will stand to be corrected, before PM Trudeau even became the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada:QuoteThere’s a level of admiration I actually have for China, because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say, ‘We need to go green … we need to start investing in solar.'
Trudeau said it seven months after he became party leader. I’m sure the waldo would be as equally forgiving if a Conservative leader said the same thing.
I wonder if those other countries had a PM sign a deal that tied them economically to China until 2045?