Burton: Canada looks on as Biden rallies other allies to counter China

 Burton: Canada looks on as Biden rallies other allies to counter China

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2021/07/21/canada-looks-on-as-biden-rallies-other-allies-to-counter-china.html

"Our government’s increasingly pointed rhetoric with no substantive followup only confirms the weakness of Canada’s position with China, while Ottawa’s attempts at clever diplomacy in trying to steer a middle path between the PRC and the U.S. has only debased Washington’s faith in Canada’s commitment to the integrity of the international rules-based order.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau needs to phone President Biden to assure him of Canada’s support for positive determinations that come out of the QUAD meeting. Then we should not just talk the talk but stand up and show some courage of our convictions."

Burton and Chen Opinion: It’s a bad sign when elites are adopting Chinese Communist Party rhetoric

 Opinion: It’s a bad sign when elites are adopting Chinese Communist Party rhetoric

Some in the commentator class have forgotten the hard lessons about dealing with China

Charles Burton and Duanjie Chen

https://thehub.ca/2021-07-02/opinion-its-a-bad-sign-when-elites-are-adopting-chinese-communist-party-rhetoric/

"The authors ignore the fact that many of the regime’s most passionate critics are themselves of Chinese descent. They neglect to mention that the principal oppressor of the Chinese people is in fact the CCP itself. Calling this out is not racist; it is empowering to those who live in China and risk imprisonment for merely expressing opinions that the regime finds distasteful.

Worse still, this article from Evans and Woo is hardly an isolated statement from the authors; it certainly is not out of character. Most recently, Woo doubled down on repeating the rhetoric used by the wolf warriors in China’s Embassy in Ottawa, arguing that Canada cannot be critical of China’s ongoing genocide in Xinjiang due to Canada’s own deeply problematic history with residential schools.

This classic whataboutism is obviously not concerned about racial inequality or the wellbeing of Indigenous peoples, but again, defending the PRC regime against criticism for its abhorrent human rights abuses. The fact of Canada’s appalling history of gross mistreatment of indigenous peoples makes us Canadians even more sensitized to the evil of crimes against humanity being committed by autocratic racist regimes in China and elsewhere in the world. Woo has it exactly backwards."