What Canada still fails to understand about China

Beijing has no interest in being a fair, co-operative, or transparent partner. Indeed, the CCP has provided sweetheart business deals and lucrative board positions in China for Canadian elites to influence Canadian political agendas and sway policy in favour of the CCP.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has resisted calls from prominent Canadians to drop the U.S.' extradition request involving Meng Wanzhou, a Huawei executive, saying it would only embolden the Chinese government. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY AI-MEN LAU

August 10, 2020

“Basically, I think China-Canada relations will be good going forward.” Those words were spoken by the former ambassador to China, John McCallum, as

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