JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: "WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US" - A NEW PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE IN CANADA IS TO LOOK INTO THE COUNTRY'S TROUBLED RELATIONS WITH CHINA - BUT YOU DON'T NEED A COMMITTEE - YOU JUST NEED TO OPEN YOUR EYES - JUSTIN TRUDEAU'S SERVILITY TO TRUMP EXPLAINS THE SITUATION COMPLETELY

John Chuckman


COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN CBC NEWS


"Special Canada-China committee to hold first meeting in Ottawa"

“A new special parliamentary committee created to examine Canada's fraught relationship with China will hold its first meeting today in Ottawa”


You really do not need a committee to understand the situation. Just open your eyes and look.

We’ve sadly followed Trump's foreign policies in many details, right up to willingly turning our excellent relations with China into a Northern Front in his war on China’s trade and influence.

We needlessly arrested a senior corporate executive, part of America's assault on Huawei. It was the equivalent of someone's arresting the head of Microsoft or Apple. This could have been avoided several ways, but our government chose not to do so.

We sailed a destroyer through the Taiwan Strait as though we were part of the American Navy. Anyone with the slightest knowledge of China knows that kind of behavior is openly insulting.

Trump's America means to be openly insulting, but does that mean Canada has to join the ugly mob?

Those critical decisions were made by Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland, politicians who also have echoed negative Trump rhetoric about China many times, when in fact we've never had any reason not to keep on the best of terms with that great nation.

In the words of a famous old political cartoon character, Pogo, “We have met the enemy and he is us”

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Response to a comment saying, “The sooner we can wean ourselves off any dependence on China, the better”

Why do you say that?

First, we do not "depend" on China. We trade with them, and we are a trading nation.

Second, China is a great nation, one with an even greater future. Its New Silk Road is the greatest economic and trade project on earth, and it will offer immense future opportunities.

Why would anyone behave so foolishly towards them as you suggest?