CSIS-Beamte sagen, China sei in der kanadischen Arktis ein größeres Problem als Russland – Lynds Warnung kommt nur einen Monat, nachdem Premierminister Mark Carney eine neue „strategische Partnerschaft“ mit China unterzeichnet hat
https://nationalpost.com/news/csis-officials-say-china-is-more-of-a-concern-in-canadas-arctic-than-russia
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No shit. I think we could have resolved some of tbe China matters without glazing them like we did. They are still 100% a legitimate threat to our sovereignty
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If they are so concerned why did they decide to start fucking our relations up?
You can’t abuse someone then cry when they stand up for themselves….
China is coming up in the great powers fast! Makes sense
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CSIS. The Keystone Cops of international espionage.
Color me shocked, Elbows up right?
Average r/Canada redditor: there is absolutely no difference between the United States and China! They are exactly the same!!!!
A growing superpower that is on the lookout for more resources. Colour me shocked.
Best way to get a superpower to not invade you? Make it profitable for them to be your friend.
I was curious to see what the threat was. We know Russia is militarizing their part of the arctic. So I wanted to see how it compared. This is what the article says:
>“I would say now, our primary concern about the threat in the Arctic falls under economic security,” said Lynd. “It’s foreign interference in our economic sector.”
>Lynd said this would include predatory investment, attempts at control in the critical minerals sector and China’s attempts to gain footholds in critical infrastructure.
>“The concern we have would be with clandestine or deceptive investment practices or economic engagement in certain market sectors in the Arctic,” he said. “From a CSIS perspective, we investigate, collect information on that, and we advise government on the rest of the threat.”
>Lynd said this is achieved through the Investment Canada Act (ICA), which is legislation that allows the federal government to conduct a national security review of any foreign investment.
>The federal government has used the ICA before to protect Canada’s national security interests in commercial fields.
So less a military threat and more of a „they’re trying to control critical minerals“ threat.
It makes sense that China is more of a threat than Russia, but I honestly believe the fact that Russia is actually such a pathetic paper tiger of a country that they aren’t a threat to anyone they don’t directly border.
Sure they can send millions of troops over a border, but even in its current state I’d put Canada’s navy up against Russia’s any day of the week.
Especially with them currently invading Ukraine, their ability for operations in the arctic are probably at a 70 year low.
La Presse va leur envoyer Charest pour dealer ça.
Russia is a vassal state of China or is at least destined to vassal-hood: this goes without saying tbh
American newspaper sounding the alarm about China following US annexation threats
Whereas this is true, I get the impression the concept of big bad China is being pushed by the American military industrial complex to give western countries a new boogy man to fear.
They made tons of money building arms and tech under the pretense we needed them because the Russians were coming. Now that the Russians are being unraveled in Ukraine, they need a substitute scary state to keep the money flowing.
Pretty sure that’s why there’s so much „danger China danger“ articles going out right now.
Here’s the thing: Canada has to balance out a series of threats, now that we can no longer rely on the US (and in fact the US has gone from friend to threat).
This means having options in various camps. We can’t afford to reject possible deals just because we have fears about the potential partners we are dealing with.
Rather, we should go on with both eyes open. If people want to deal, we will make deals. We won’t let that blind us to the threats they pose.
China or the US, it’s the same approach.
To protect Alaska, I guess this means the US will tear up it’s own recent agreement with China? /s
Being anti US, closest friend and neighbor, and biggest trading partner, is really dumb
We need to block Vhina from buying any more of our natural resources. They own WAY too much already.
I think China is much more capable but it feels like Russia is the more more outwardly agressive one. I’ll take the advice of CSIS on this
I guess the alternative is to cede our sovereignty to the US.
Keep in Mind China actively declares itself a “near-arctic state” and believes that that thus gives them power to have a say in arctic affairs.
This should not be a surprise to anyone paying attention or even peripherally in the know.
When has the Liberal party ever cared about warnings from CSIS?
At what point do we just consider this China talk fear-mongering.
I’m not going to say China is good by any means, but they’ve been doing deals with half the world now and haven’t invaded anyone. Meanwhile our neighbors to the South bombing everyone every chance they can.
It feels to me like China realizes that their best path to success is to be the economic superpower they might be shitty but at this point I’m way more nervous of a potential United States invasion than a Chinese invasion.
As far as I remember, the conservative leader of Saskatchewan was pretty happy with that agreement.
Canada strategic partnership is not a military one. It’s economic. Let’s not conflate the two.