Canada

Same with the USA

China is a dictatorship country with many flaws.

But for too long, Canadians have ignored the vicious American Gorilla standing up at their door.

The main reason China has had worsening relations with Canada and has been threatening to Canada at all is because we have been so closely allied with the US, and the US overtly wants to hamper China's development and even to overthrow their system of government.

The Meng Wanzhou thing was Canada purely going along with a brash US attack on a leading Chinese company, and it did tremendous and needless damage to Canada-China relations. China didn't start that. The US did, and Canada helped them do it.

Now, while the US has started acting towards Canada in a way a little more like it has treated countries throughout the Global South for decades, China is offering to partner with Canada to oppose the US abuses of the whole global system of trade. China isn't devastating Canada's economy. They've started buying our oil, which is good for our economy. They've been suggesting more open trade with us, and would no-doubt drop tarrifs on our agricultural products if we lowered our ridiculous tarrifs on their EVs, which we imposed at 100% just to please the US even though it's worse for the Canadian consumer and has been primarily beneficial to Tesla and Elon Musk, an overt fascist enabler of our biggest threat who also says we're not even a real country.

The US is the primary aggressor to worry about. They're holding military exercises this week with the Philippines on simulating all-out war with China and Trump appointed a bunch of guys who have years of advocating for war with China. He is waging economic war against China right now.

I support Carney wanting increased economic ties with Europe and more pivoting away from US dependence, but to treat China as an enemy and speak more harshly about them than even the US is something I really dislike. Opposing the foreign interference, asserting sovereignty in the Arctic, protecting Canadian markets to an extent that is reasonable and fair, these are all good things, but they can be done without making an enemy of China, especially while China is actually offering to work with us and to help us out in dealing with our biggest immediate threat.

I don't see it. How is China a geopolitical threat to Canada? I get it's a threat to the Chinese people, being a dictatorship, and to their neighbors, being jingoistic, but how are they a threat to us?

The way people (especially on the left) talk about politics is very reminiscent of ancient anthropomorphism. People like to assign human emotions to countries in order to judge their relationships. Understanding the nuances of political structure is very difficult, and if you don't understand (I am one of them) it's better if people don't get involved.

Total loser shameful move. Canada has unanimous loyalty to US propaganda among politicians and media, and deprogramming Canadians is essential. This is hopefully just political baby kissing, but Canada is F'd if its only option is to submit to US empire.

God fucking dammit. Wrong move Carney. We are either going to be attached to America or China, and America is threatening our sovereignty.

It was like a week ago he had full confidence in his minister who wanted to ship a Canadian citizens issuing anti-China tweets in Canada to China for execution. Then replaced him with someone equally bad.

I'd assume he can't see them as that bad when he wants a Canadian gestapo for fighting anti-CPC rhetoric.