Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew sagt, Kanada muss eine klare Strategie für den Umgang mit China darlegen

Kind of a fundamental principle of geo-politics, when you have a more powerful neighbour, you either want to submit on acceptable terms, or seek an off-shore balancing partner. Canada has done both in the relationship with the Americans.

Through the 19th and the first decades of the 20th centuries, we relied on British power to deter American aggression. Through the second half of the 20th century and first decades of the 21st we attempted a policy of negotiated submission and integration, which allowed the American yoke be tolerable.

If we’re actually serious about the terms of our submission to the Americans now becoming unacceptable, and seeking to escape them, then we absolutely need to reset our relationship with the only state today that can begin to rival American power, and deter the threat of American aggression. That’s China.