Canada cannot be drawn into a false choice between United States and China

China is not going to disappear. Nor is it going to change its system because we think it should. But we have to have a future relationship with a country that is home to 1.4 billion people and that should be uppermost in our minds in October.

Canadians Michael Spavor, left, and Michael Kovrig, been detained by Chinese authorities since December 2018. Canada cannot allow itself to be drawn into a false choice between the United States and China. Despite differences with China in many areas—Canada has to restore a relationship with China, which probably will not be possible until the two Michaels episode is resolved, writes David Crane. Photographs courtesy of Twitter and the International Crisis Group

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

August 3, 2020

TORONTO—Oct. 13 will be the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Canada and China. But how will the Trudeau government mark it? Presumably, there are people wrestling with this question right now. All we can know with certainty is that it won’t be any...

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