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Yep, this OP is another clear piece of propaganda preying upon gaps in people's knowledge and served up by the same sock puppet account that's always at it in this community. Scotty is actually the type of account used for influence campaigning that Canadians should be wary of.

China is more conservative and takes a longer view. They want stability. They offer consistency and determinism. The United States in contrast offers chaos.

This is a very strange framing if you read the statement by Mr. Dimon Liu. China wants to gain enough leverage over you to exploit Canadians, "low-end population" in the words of the Chinese Communist Party. It's the very same view the CCP has at home with Chinese people.

And it has nothing to do with the USA. This is a topic of its own. We must clearly conclude that China is not a reliable partner either, probably even worse. China doesn't want "stability" but rather power of you. They don't offer consistency but exploitation.

Canada must diversify its trade focusing on real allies - in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, and other countries that want to further develop democratic institutions. China isn't among these countries given their current regime.

This is not fearmongering. The Chinese government considers a large part of its own citizens as "low-end population," as second-class citizens. China's economic development came and still comes at the expense of the majority of its people, and they pursue similar politics abroad.

And colonialism is a factor of its own as I have already written. This must be dealt with, sure, but it's not hypocritical if you hold the Chinese government accountable for its crimes against humanity. There is much evidence for this.

This is a confusing stance. You want the world to do more but are disparaging the warning someone with information is giving to a country so they are not roped into abuse.

You don’t know if there were better alternatives to what western and European powers did to others? I really do hope that you, as part of the world are contributing to the solution in some way, because it really does sound like needless culpability.

This is whataboutism. The fact that Canada fails to be perfect in all regards doesn't excuse anything done by other countries.

You may have misinterpreted the article. This is about Canada's possible future trade ties with China and the threat of political and economic coercion for all Canadian people.

There were certainly better alternatives in the past. Canada (and the rest of the democratic world) must deal with this. This is an issue of its own.

It has nothing to do with Canada-China relations and the fact that Canada must not get dependent on a dictatorial government that will exploit Canadian people, not matter who they are.

As an addition, there is a report published just yesterday by Genocide Watch, a rights group, that finds China at extermination and denial stages in Uyghur genocide:

The Chinese government continues its campaign of Mass Detention in Reeducation Camps, where Uyghur Muslims face Forced Assimilation and Cultural Genocide through CCP indoctrination and Uyghur language bans.

The entire report makes a devastating read. This happens now, in 2025.

All of the horrible things you describe have been what humans have been doing to each other since the dawn of time.

Many of the indigenous peoples of the Americas for instance practiced blood sport, ritual sacrifice and they also slaughtered their neighbors in wars. Whenever there is an organized concentration of power, atrocities are committed. The smallest nations and the briefest periods exist all over where less terrible things have happened, but it keeps continuing now... like it always has.

I'm not justifying anything. I think humanity as a species is truly horrific. We're capable of awful things, no matter how demure we may appear on the surface.. and once anyone starts getting that power the things they are willing to do simply changes. Maybe one ruler can be benign, or even two... but it never lasts. History can be forgotten, history books can be re-written, the scale of the atrocity may be different... but it's always there.

We don't really deserve anything but extinction as a species. There's no observable path forward where we will change for the better either.