Last thing the world needs is a new Cold War, this time with China

Canada should support coherent, long-term strategy, and reject Trump’s alternative. This should be a key message from the House of Commons committee. If its work is to have value, it should be hearing witnesses and looking at how a Canadian framework would work within a more enlightened superpower U.S.-China understanding. It mustn’t make this a lost opportunity.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump. The Trump administration has argued, with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent inflammatory speech denouncing China as the latest example, that U.S. president Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger accomplished nothing in establishing diplomatic relations with China. Instead, the Trump administration seeks to isolate China and force it to bend to America’s will, writes David Crane. Photographs courtesy of Flickr

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

August 10, 2020

TORONTO—Global Affairs Canada says that Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne has “called for a new framework for Canada-China relations.” But when will we see it? And will the House of Commons Committee on Canada-China Relations help formulate this new framework, which should ...

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