Does Canada’s openness for Chinese business, silence on the South China Sea, signal shift away from U.S.? | National Post

Does Canada’s openness for Chinese business, silence on the South China Sea, signal shift away from U.S.? | National Post

Not naming China publicly implies “tacit consent to what China is doing,” said Brock University’s Charles Burton.

“The U.S. will be highly concerned about Canada’s ever closer relationship to China,” he said, and neither candidate in its upcoming election will look kindly on Canada “not openly and firmly standing up for the (arbitration) decision.”

Burton connected the issue to Canada’s decision to join the AIIB, “against U.S. urging.”