Canada’s misguided China policy needs an urgent review

It would, therefore, be prudent of Canada to seek to reinforce its diplomatic and economic ties with like-minded democracies such as the United States, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, and the United Kingdom to reduce its dependency on China before it's too late.
Strangely, Canadian government leaders, including Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured Jan. 11, 2020, have so far only countered China’s bullying techniques with rather timid and carefully drafted PR statements to avoid upsetting the Communist Party of China.
TORONTO—Over the last four months, while much of the world’s attention was trained on containing the spread of the deadly coronavirus, China was making the most of the distraction to relentlessly pursue its regional and global aspirations. From undertaking bellicose actions across Asia to inciti...

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