Special to The Globe and MailDavid Mulroney was Canada’s ambassador to China from 2009 to 2012.
There are many smart reasons for engaging China, but flattering the leadership in Beijing isn’t one of them. Good ideas emerge from hard thinking about long-term Canadian interests. Even summoning the vision and courage to think strategically would mark a significant improvement over our current China policy, which appears to be conjured up from equal measures of wishful thinking and parliamentary politics.
We should start with a long-overdue reassessment of our relationship with Taiwan. Reclaiming the island is at the heart of China’s efforts to achieve regional dominance. And persuading countries, including Canada, to avoid Taiwan is central to the plan. Although we need to tread carefully, we can do a lot more with the island than our overly timid interpretation of the One China policy allows.
GlobeDebate It’s hard to cure BethuneSyndrome
GlobeDebate Canada has no foreign policy under Trudeau...nothing. That’s what you get when you elect a snow boarder for PM...no knowledge of anything but pot apparently
GlobeDebate We are trying to do our part to address ClimateEmergency yet we allow China to continue producing cheap and toxic goods, all the while pushing us around by denying our exports. If Canada wants change it has to start hitting above our weight class.
GlobeDebate It may be time to take a more directed attack on China. They deny our goods, which is worse than tariffs, maybe it’s time we see their goods for what they are: toxic and unsustainable. Tariff Chinese goods or begin enforcing against them.
GlobeDebate WELL HOW ABOUT TARIFFS SANCTIONS 'MAGINSTKY ACT!!' AGAINST 'HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSING!''WORLD+MILITARY DOMINATION=WORLD AS SLAVES-CHINA NEW WORLD ORDER(RUSSIA APPROVED -KOWTOWS TO CHINA DEMANDS!)' COMMUNIST CHINA?
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