“China – Communist Slave State”

Conrad Black: As Canada Seeks to Diversify Trade, It Should Have No Illusions About the Chinese Regime

After eight months without any trade or tariff agreements, some people said that it was a relief to see that Prime Minister Carney had reached a partial free trade agreement with China. It appears to be substantially a liberalization of our sale of canola in exchange for their exportation to us of 49,000 electric vehicles.

To the extent that this begins a process of making Canada less dependent upon the United States economically, it is useful. And to the extent that it inaugurates a series of enterprising trade agreements with a wide variety of countries, it is the beginning of a welcome and long-overdue procession of events to end Canada’s status as a branch-plant country. This process began with the Canada -U.S. Free Trade Agreement of nearly 40 years ago, prior to which almost every company in Canada, except Canadian Pacific and the large banks, had the words “Canada Ltd.” after their names.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Jesse Kline: Carney declares world order dead, just don’t ask him about China

Prime Minister Mark Carney took to the podium at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday to deliver one simple message: the world as you know it is over. But it’s not even clear that Carney knows what he thinks should take its place, or whose side he’s on.

The Prime Minister’s Office billed the trip as a means of deepening Canada’s “economic partnerships,” creating “new opportunities” and pitching our country as the “premier destination for global capital and investment.” But those talking points comprised just five per cent of his speech.

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Doug Ford calls for Chinese EV boycott in Canada after Carney deal

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is calling on Canadians to boycott Chinese-made electric vehicles when they are allowed back into the country under a deal recently struck by Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Ford has been critical of the deal — and the fact Carney did not speak to him about it in advance — saying it will harm Ontario’s auto sector.

Carney and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed while the prime minister was in China that Canada will all but drop its 100 per cent tariffs on Chinese EVs and allow an annual import quota of up to 49,000 of the vehicles in exchange for China reducing its canola tariffs.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Former RCMP Director Alarmed by New Canada-China Agreement on Public Safety Cooperation

Former national director of the RCMP’s proceeds-of-crime program Garry Clement says Ottawa’s new agreement with Beijing on public safety is concerning because it potentially opens the door for the Chinese regime to “capitalize on intelligence.”

Prime Minister Mark Carney made several agreements with Beijing during his visit to China last week as part of a broader effort to establish closer ties with China and boost non-U.S. exports.

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‘Undeniable’: The Many Security Risks of Chinese EVs as Canada Opens Its Markets

China crappy electric cars, EV

As Canada moves to slash tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, a growing number of reports and researchers are warning about security risks and the potential for espionage by the Chinese Communist Party through these vehicles.

When asked for evidence to support his concerns about the security risks posed by Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), Ontario Premier Doug Ford pointed to the fact that everyone who accompanied Prime Minister Mark Carney to China, including Canadian reporters, was instructed to use burner phones for security reasons.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Stupid Shit Andrew Coyne Says

No, Canada is not selling out to Beijing

Well, that got their attention. Since the Prime Minister’s visit to China, the American media – and social media – have been filled with expressions of shock and amazement.

For critics of Donald Trump, it was payback for his bullying and abusive treatment of America’s nearest neighbour and historic ally. For the President’s supporters, it was a sign of Canadian perfidy, if not grounds for invasion. Canada will “surely regret” gives you the flavour of it.

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Carney’s China deal isn’t a sign of confidence in Canada’s auto sector

Whatever you think of the wisdom of Mark Carney’s trade deal with China, it’s not a big vote of confidence for the future of Canada’s auto industry. At least, not the auto industry we have known.

It was a move to jump-start trade with the world’s second-largest economy, opening the big Chinese market to Canadian canola, peas and seafood.

Yet, the concession that Mr. Carney made – accepting imports of 49,000 Chinese vehicles a year with very low tariffs – is a far bigger signal than he admitted.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Uncommon Knowledge: China Complaining About Trump’s Land Grab? That’s Rich

In a tense confrontation at Scarborough Shoal, Filipino captain Joely Saligan said the Chinese coast guard ordered him to dump his catch. He shouted back, according to the Associated Press, “this is Philippine territory. Go away.” The crew left, shaken but unhurt. It was January 12, 2024, inside waters an international tribunal says China has no right to control.

Fast-forward to this week. As President Donald Trump revives his push to take control of Greenland, China is wagging its finger. Beijing’s Foreign Ministry told Washington it “shouldn’t use other countries as a ‘pretext’ to pursue its interests in Greenland,” casting China’s own Arctic activity as lawful and benign. Elsewhere, it is not so benign. From reefs in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone to a map that colored in a slice of Russian borderlands, and even on the moon, Beijing is no stranger to the kind of behavior it now deplores.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Will a ‘disappointed’ Doug Ford and Mark Carney get over their differences on Chinese EVs?

It feels a bit Taylor Swiftian.

Hurt feelings.

Unsent texts.

Exotic trips with someone else.

Yearning for what was last summer.

Premier Doug Ford sounded like a spurned paramour from a Swift song as he bleated about Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to China with Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.

I hope Ford goes Ape.

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Former Senior Mountie: Carney’s RCMP–Chinese Police Cooperation Deal Is a Counterintelligence Danger That Risks Sovereignty

OTTAWA — After nearly five decades in policing, intelligence, and financial-crime investigations—including professional experience working in Asia—I have learned a simple rule: who you cooperate with matters as much as what you cooperate on.

Last week, the Prime Minister’s Office announced that Canada and the People’s Republic of China will enhance law enforcement cooperation on drug trafficking, transnational and cybercrime, and money laundering. On paper, this sounds reasonable. Fentanyl is devastating communities. Cybercrime drains billions. Organized crime adapts faster than borders.

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Joe Varner: Praising Beijing’s ‘new world order’ a costly misstep for Carney — and Canada

Prime Minister Mark Carney did not misspeak in Beijing. He chose his words carefully, and therein lies a severe problem.

When a Canadian prime minister praises the idea of a “new world order” while sitting in China, he is not engaging in neutral diplomacy. He is endorsing language that carries an extremely specific meaning in Beijing and an unmistakable warning signal in Washington. For a country whose security and prosperity depend on solidarity with the United States, with whom it has had a historically challenging relationship, Carney’s comments carry significant risk, if not real damage.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Greenland, USA

WAPO: Canada will regret cozying up with China to troll Trump

Canada is cozying up to China. It’s not surprising because of President Donald Trump’s bullying, but it is shortsighted.

Describing a “new world order,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had the gall during a trip to Beijing last week to claim that China is a “more predictable” partner than the United States.

Trump has been a bad neighbor, so maybe Carney is trolling Trump for musing about making Canada the 51st state. After all, he acknowledged last year while campaigning for the premiership that China is the biggest threat to his country’s security. At the same time, the Greenland saber-rattling, which threatens to upend NATO, is deeply unnerving Canada.

Great, now all our Amazon shipments will go missing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - Security Risk Under Liberal Party Regime", "Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State"

China unlikely to invest in Canadian auto plants, experts say

If the federal government is expecting Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers will rush to build an assembly plant in Canada, economists, industry analysts and insiders say they’re sorely mistaken.

The biggest reasons, say experts? There’s no guarantee Chinese EV makers would be able to sell anything they produced here in the U.S., it would cost billions to build or buy a plant, and they’ve already got more than enough capacity at home.

The goal is for Carney and pals to personally profit from their ‘relationships” with the ChiComs.

They’ll casually lie to further those interests.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Adam Zivo: Carney doesn’t care how dangerous China really is

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new plan to expand Chinese-Canadian ties will jeopardize, not protect, our national sovereignty. However volatile the United States may be these days, pursuing a “comprehensive strategic partnership” with Beijing as a counterbalance is myopic and reckless.

The plan was announced Friday at the end a four-day trip to China — the first prime ministerial visit to the country since 2017 — wherein Carney, joined by a high-ranking delegation, strove to thaw diplomatic relations after a decade of mutual distrust.

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Analysis: CSIS Warned Beijing Weaponized Canola and Elections in the 2019 Meng Crisis — Is Carney’s EV Trade-Off a Replay?

OTTAWA — A high-level Canadian Security Intelligence Service assessment in June 2019 concluded that Beijing, jolted by Canada’s detention of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, launched a “calibrated and multi-faceted pressure campaign” that blended trade coercion — including curtailing canola imports — with the detention of Canadians and clandestine interference surrounding the 2019 federal election, aiming to exert “personalized political pressure on Canada’s leadership,” with the Ministry of State Security driving the response and CSIS collection further establishing that President Xi Jinping received reports “directly from the MSS.”

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