cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/8747816
Katlyn Harrison, a specialist for public affairs and government relations and vice chair at Summa Strategies, criticizes Ottawa for not responding to the Chinese envoy after he ‘warned’ of support for Taiwan.
“Now 5+ days without a response from Canada’s government on China’s demand we scale back Taiwan support,” Harrison writes on social media.
Refering to PM Mark Carney’s critique of US president Trump, Harrison says: “Forgive me, but the international speeches decrying global hegemons fall a little flat when you’re actively courting one [China] interfering in your own backyard.”
“So if the Prime Minister is going to make these declarative statements, he should be prepared to answer, ok, ‘are you speaking only about the United States or how does this foreign policy look and this position look vis a vis China and Taiwan’, for which the Prime Minister has been silent?” Harrison adds.
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“Conservative think tank says Liberal leader is doing a bad thing. More at 11.”
What would antagonizing China with a response accomplish that ignoring them wouldn’t?
As opposed to the famously no strings attached American partnerships.
Shocker, major world powers expect concessions when partnering with smaller regional powers.
Whether or not those concessions make sense, is a decision for the Canadian government, and their constituents.
ANY IDIOT WHO THINKS THAT MESHING WITH THE US of A DIDN’T HAVE SERIOUS STRINGS ATTACHED, IS INCOMPETENT.
PICK one’s poison: BOTH are problematic.
Tibet+Uyghurs+HongKong on the 1 hand, JimCrow2.0/ICE/GenderApartheid2.0/StillEscalating! on the other.
THAT is EXACTLY what subject-to-hegemons MEANS.
The current world-order is USA/China/Netanyahu-right-now|MBS-once-Netanyahu-is-gone/Russia.
After Trump breaks the US to dictatorship, his stress-level will drop, & it’ll STILL be US/China/MiddleEast/“Russia” ( supplanted by China, internally, like Tibet, but the “rulers” will be allowed to play “tzar” for nearly a decade more, so they’ll do it )
… ruling our world!
Pretending that Trump is our ally is baldfaced intentionally-murderous-of-our-future-lives treachery, now.
His “Greater North America” is fundamentally the same as Netanyahu’s “Greater Israel” and Putin’s “Greater Russia” and the CCP’s “Greater China”/Chinese Empire, & MBS’s working to own all of the Middle-East, with no competitors left around.
SEE OBJECTIVELY, not ideologically: this is BAD situation our world’s ratcheting-itself into!
The still accelerating ClimatePunctuation will be breaking inhabitability from much of California, much of Texas, much of Saudi Arabia, much of India, much of the Sahara, & possibly much of Europe, in the next years/few-decades…
Now ISN’T the time to be ignoring-objectivity, for sake of ideological self-comforting!
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Pick your poison, the US is unstable and insane.
CBCWatcher
Why are we taking advice from a reactionary billionaire-funded media critic with a vested interest in US economic hegemony?
I’m sorry I’m not as well versed in Canada’s Taiwan policy, but it seems like they’re moving towards the US policy of never publicly acknowledging Taiwan.
Clearly we can handle ourselves around up jumped imperialists. At least these ones aren’t threatening to invade us
