Ehemaliger Spitzensoldat warnt angesichts der Spannungen mit den USA davor, sich China zuzuwenden
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/former-top-soldier-warns-against-pivot-to-china-amid-tensions-with-the-us/?taid=6a25414eeb9d510001a2bb52&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
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I think this idea that Canada is going to abandon the USA entirely in favour of China is still an over estimate of the intentions that the government have made, and that trying to remove dependence on the US does not necessitate dependence on anyone else. Calling our intent to diminish the dependence on the US in any way as a shift to depending on China just feels like a very pro-US doctrine that tries to preserve the current problematic status quo.
What I’m more fascinated by is that this guy is still framing their concerns of China with respect to how China’s associated with Russia. Given their performance in Ukraine, I think our fears of Russia should be significantly less these days with China itself being the very obvious larger concern as a foreign military threat and bad actor. I can’t tell if it is because he’s still set in the era of his own service, or if using Russia as a bogeyman is still just the easier practice to avoid upsetting China, but it seems like there is a very clear power imbalance between Russia/China these days.
China is significantly larger, has much more active presence in Canada, and has the actual resources and rationale to undermine Canada right now whereas I would think Russia is far more concerned with their own survival in the face of a united front in Ukraine wiping out their economy and military potential.
No shit. Neither of those superpowers can be trusted.
We do what we can to placate them while eking out some benefit for ourselves from the arrangement.
So we should become the 51st state? Geography was also reality for Ukraine before their neighbour invaded them should we wait till then to diversify? That bigotry against China is irrational and self defeating
What Canada needs is a nuclear solution. Ensure that we have a MAD policy and a cold start doctrine with robust second strike capabilities (nuclear submarine).
These people that have gotten themselves so upset about Canada trying to reduce dependence on the US don’t seem to quite comprehend that the US has decided to pivot away from US. They’re literally saying it loud and clear. Some people would rather pretend that’s not true I guess.
Both America and China, along with India need to be looked at as relationships of necessity from a perspective of trade. But none can be trusted as allies or friends.
I would call it trade with guard-rails , to protect Canadian sovereignty and safety.
China and India have never been trusted, but the shock is the USA, given our past relationship. But what Trump has shown, we have always been too vulnerable. We may have been taken advantage of and just let it go, because we were so dependent. This can never happen again.
The solution that is being proposed isn’t a complete pivot to China. These guys think in absolute terms all the time like there’s no nuance.
The US was 80%+ of Canada’s exports and intended to weaponize that trading relationship into coercion and annexation.
Mark Carney’s primarily mandate is to diversify trading partners so that no country represents >50% of our trade to give Canada economic options and preserve the nations sovereignty.
When you look at who that will be; you’re left with the EU, China, Japan, South Korea and India as the next best options. Canada isn’t in a position to have frosty relationships with any of those countries anymore (like we did with China and India).
Anyone who’s using hyperbole to talk about diversification is either super short sighted themselves or getting paid by someone else.
One nation’s leader is talking about absorbing Canada. The other is not. Hard not to acknowledge that.