BURTON: What a potential cold war with China means for Canada
"Canada needs to stand with our liberal democratic allies in defence of the rules-based international order. The days of the federal government virtue signalling to dampen down the public opprobrium over China’s malign schemes, while Canada’s political and business elite pursue a self-interested policy of appeasement towards China, will have to end. Maintaining the pretense that the best China policy for Canada is one that steers a sophisticated diplomatic middle course between the U.S. and China is no longer viable.
Canada’s esoteric foreign policy doctrine of strategic deception wrongly assumes that what the country lacks in power and influence can be made up by cleverness. But it is simply an expression of Canadian naivety and greed."
