Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney said that China is one of the largest threats with respect to foreign interference in Canada and is an emerging threat in the Arctic.
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Asked to elaborate at a news conference in Niagara Falls on Friday, Carney said Canada has to counter Chinese foreign interference threats. He also criticized China for being a partner with Russia in the war with Ukraine and said it is a threat to broader Asia and Taiwan in particular.
Carney said China is the biggest threat “from a geopolitical sense.” “We’re taking action to address,” he added.
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Well, China sure as fuck took hostages in it’s response to Meng Wanzhou. That response was unforgivable, holding innocent people as a bargaining chip in a diplomatic game. We got played by the US, no doubt, by having to hold someone due to our treaty obligations when they had her in their own country and never arrested her. But the way China handled that like gangsters did not inspire confidence in their diplomatic choices.
Yes, they arrested a… A FUCKING SPY and a guy who was unfortunately being USED by said spy… Seems pretty reasonable.
“Unfortunately being used by a spy” does not sound as reasonable as you think it does…
How exactly is a foreign country supposed to know that he wasn’t a spy, but simply being used as an unwitting asset? Spavor DID in fact pass intelligence information to Kovrig.
The federal government literally settled with him because of it.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/spavor-government-settlement-1.7136196
Wow I’ve somehow completely missed this.
It was certainly not widely mediatized. Imagine if China arrested the CEO of BlackBerry (when they were relevant) to further the economic interests of their neighbor, and in retaliation we arrested two spies and everyone cried about how unreasonable we were. It would make absolutely no fucking sense. But apparently it’s China who’s unreasonable in this affair…