Trudeau says Canada expressed 'dissatisfaction' over Chinese minister's outburst

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Trudeau says Canada expressed 'dissatisfaction' over Chinese minister's outburst

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Canadian government has expressed its dissatisfaction with China after its foreign minister scolded a Canadian reporter over a question on human rights.

"I can confirm that both (Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane) Dion and department officials from Global Affairs Canada have expressed our dissatisfaction to both the Chinese foreign minister and the ambassador of China to Canada — our dissatisfaction with the way our journalists were treated."

"The fact of the matter is freedom of the press is extremely important to me," Trudeau said in Winnipeg on Friday, after he gave a speech to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called a Canadian journalist "irresponsible" for asking about human rights during a news conference in Ottawa on Wednesday.

Trudeau said he has raised the case of Canadian Kevin Garratt, who has been jailed and charged with espionage.

"Every time I have had an opportunity to meet with any representatives of the Chinese government or of China in general, I have highlighted our concerns around human rights and specifically brought up the case of Kevin Garratt, a Canadian citizen imprisoned for espionage without any evidence to support the allegations and accusations."

"We will continue to bring up human rights concerns every chance we get while at the same time we work to create economic opportunities both for Canadians and for Chinese citizens," Trudeau said on Friday.

Justin Trudeau says Canada expressed 'dissatisfaction' over Chinese minister's outburst - Politics - CBC News
 
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Trudeau says Canada expressed 'dissatisfaction' over Chinese minister's outburst



.....after maintenance workers were called in with crowbars to remove Justin's lips from the Chinese minister's ****.


Gimme a break.


They "demanded" a meeting with the PM. Guy must have wanted a little head. Granted.


The Chinese communist party has caused the deaths of between 50 and 70 million people. The current gov't is simply regressive and repressive, cracking down on just about everything. China is increasingly aggressive in the South China Sea, and to top it all off, has held Canadian Kevin Garratt for two years and charged him with spying, a ridiculous trumped up accusation. The Chinese were pissed because Harper made public a Chinese cyber attack on the Canada Research Council.


So now these Liberal idiots are busily going down on these guys............Trudeau just shows that "certain admiration" he has for the regime with the worst human rights record in the history of the world.


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Colpy said:
Trudeau says Canada expressed 'dissatisfaction' over Chinese minister's outburst



.....after maintenance workers were called in with crowbars to remove Justin's lips from the Chinese minister's ****.


Gimme a break.


They "demanded" a meeting with the PM. Guy must have wanted a little head. Granted.


The Chinese communist party has caused the deaths of between 50 and 70 million people. The current gov't is simply regressive and repressive, cracking down on just about everything. China is increasingly aggressive in the South China Sea, and to top it all off, has held Canadian Kevin Garratt for two years and charged him with spying, a ridiculous trumped up accusation. The Chinese were pissed because Harper made public a Chinese cyber attack on the Canada Research Council.


So now these Liberal idiots are busily going down on these guys............Trudeau just shows that "certain admiration" he has for the regime with the worst human rights record in the history of the world.


Sunny Ways


Spare me.
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Stephane Dion criticized for not protecting freedom of the press - National | Globalnews.ca

One of the wimpiest of them all and he still needs to take English language classes - he is all but incomprehensible.
 
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Beijing’s foreign minister Wang Yi is a perfect representative of the regime.

Arrogant. Prickly. Disdainful. Contemptuous. Dismissive. Belligerent. And darkly menacing, despite the impeccable tailoring.

If nothing else, Wang’s nasty outburst against iPolitics reporter Amanda Connolly over her question at Wednesday’s press conference in Ottawa about civil rights in China has clearly shown what sort of government foreigners must now deal with in Beijing.

You have to hope the nature of Wang’s performance seeped into the consciousness of Foreign Minister Stéphane Dion and the Liberal government. There are signs already that the Liberals are feeling a little queasy about their election campaign promise to boost economic ties with China through — among other things — a free trade pact.

Polls show that Canadians are a good deal more realistic than the Liberals about the implications of closer economic ties with Beijing; they’re apprehensive, in fact. Last year Canada sold just under $20 billion in goods to China — most of it food and natural resources — and bought nearly $66 billion in Chinese product, mostly manufactured goods. A free trade agreement would boost those numbers, but the overall effect would be to increase the trade deficit in China’s favour.

It may be because of the Liberals’ awareness of Canadians’ skepticism that Wang’s visit was not announced until a mere 24 hours before he arrived. He was in Ottawa for what we’re told was the “inaugural Canada-China Foreign Affairs Ministers’ Dialogue,” the first of planned future annual meetings between the two nations. Historically, these formal annual bilateral meetings are widely and joyously publicized as evidence of close diplomatic ties. But not in this case. There was no prior publicity for this new arrangement.

The Liberals have good reasons for feeling anxious. This is not the Beijing of 1970, the country that was looking beyond the murderous, isolationist rule of Mao Zedong and welcoming diplomatic recognition through Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s Canada.

Nor is it the Beijing of 1994, when Jean Chrétien — fronting for the Canada-China business community led by his son-in-law, Andre Desmarais — led the first of his Team Canada armadas to China. There still seemed the possibility then that trade and economic advancement in China would lead to political reform.

That’s no longer the case. Wang on Wednesday faithfully portrayed the attitudes of his boss, President and Communist Party boss Xi Jinping. Xi is overseeing a return to levels of repression in China not seen since the days of Mao.

Indeed, many old China hands contend that Xi has amassed more personal power than Mao ever had, partly because trade with countries like Canada has made the regime massively rich. It can afford the modern toys and tools of authoritarianism and rampant, expansionist nationalism that Mao never could.

Censorship in China is now more pervasive and efficient than it has been for more than three decades. Any organization that might challenge the authority of the Communist Party is slaughtered at birth. The prospects for the advent of the rule of law are also stillborn. In recent months, lawyers who have had the temerity to defend people the Communist Party wants to lock up have found themselves the targets of fabricated charges and imprisonment.

And the suppression of dissent — or even contrary views — doesn’t stop at China’s borders. Wang’s outburst in Ottawa on Wednesday is representative of Beijing’s attitude towards the international media these days. His ranting claim that the question asked about human rights — specifically about the detention since August 2014 of Canadian Kevin Garratt on unspecified espionage charges — was “full of prejudice against China” is typical of the myth Beijing tries to peddle these days. This story the regime constantly feeds its citizens — that the world is against China and wants to hold it back — is meant to foster intense nationalism and patriotism, and to divert attention from the regime’s many failings.

In Canada, Beijing has made it clear that a free trade deal depends on Ottawa pushing through an oil pipeline from Alberta to the British Columbia coast. And if that means Ottawa must override existing planning and environmental assessments, and thumb its nose at what Canadians themselves think about such a project, so be it. You want Beijing’s trade? Adopt Beijing’s values.

In that respect, Wang’s outburst was a good thing. The Liberal government can no longer be under any illusions that the regime it faces in Beijing now has the same attitudes as those it courted in the mid-1990s, or even in the 1970s.

This regime is to be avoided when possible — and approached with extreme caution when necessary.

The new China Syndrome
 
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tay said:
Beijing’s foreign minister Wang Yi is a perfect representative of the regime.

Arrogant. Prickly. Disdainful. Contemptuous. Dismissive. Belligerent. And darkly menacing, despite the impeccable tailoring.

If nothing else, Wang’s nasty outburst against iPolitics reporter Amanda Connolly over her question at Wednesday’s press conference in Ottawa about civil rights in China has clearly shown what sort of government foreigners must now deal with in Beijing.

You have to hope the nature of Wang’s performance seeped into the consciousness of Foreign Minister Stéphane Dion and the Liberal government. There are signs already that the Liberals are feeling a little queasy about their election campaign promise to boost economic ties with China through — among other things — a free trade pact.

Polls show that Canadians are a good deal more realistic than the Liberals about the implications of closer economic ties with Beijing; they’re apprehensive, in fact. Last year Canada sold just under $20 billion in goods to China — most of it food and natural resources — and bought nearly $66 billion in Chinese product, mostly manufactured goods. A free trade agreement would boost those numbers, but the overall effect would be to increase the trade deficit in China’s favour.

It may be because of the Liberals’ awareness of Canadians’ skepticism that Wang’s visit was not announced until a mere 24 hours before he arrived. He was in Ottawa for what we’re told was the “inaugural Canada-China Foreign Affairs Ministers’ Dialogue,” the first of planned future annual meetings between the two nations. Historically, these formal annual bilateral meetings are widely and joyously publicized as evidence of close diplomatic ties. But not in this case. There was no prior publicity for this new arrangement.

The Liberals have good reasons for feeling anxious. This is not the Beijing of 1970, the country that was looking beyond the murderous, isolationist rule of Mao Zedong and welcoming diplomatic recognition through Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s Canada.

Nor is it the Beijing of 1994, when Jean Chrétien — fronting for the Canada-China business community led by his son-in-law, Andre Desmarais — led the first of his Team Canada armadas to China. There still seemed the possibility then that trade and economic advancement in China would lead to political reform.

That’s no longer the case. Wang on Wednesday faithfully portrayed the attitudes of his boss, President and Communist Party boss Xi Jinping. Xi is overseeing a return to levels of repression in China not seen since the days of Mao.

Indeed, many old China hands contend that Xi has amassed more personal power than Mao ever had, partly because trade with countries like Canada has made the regime massively rich. It can afford the modern toys and tools of authoritarianism and rampant, expansionist nationalism that Mao never could.

Censorship in China is now more pervasive and efficient than it has been for more than three decades. Any organization that might challenge the authority of the Communist Party is slaughtered at birth. The prospects for the advent of the rule of law are also stillborn. In recent months, lawyers who have had the temerity to defend people the Communist Party wants to lock up have found themselves the targets of fabricated charges and imprisonment.

And the suppression of dissent — or even contrary views — doesn’t stop at China’s borders. Wang’s outburst in Ottawa on Wednesday is representative of Beijing’s attitude towards the international media these days. His ranting claim that the question asked about human rights — specifically about the detention since August 2014 of Canadian Kevin Garratt on unspecified espionage charges — was “full of prejudice against China” is typical of the myth Beijing tries to peddle these days. This story the regime constantly feeds its citizens — that the world is against China and wants to hold it back — is meant to foster intense nationalism and patriotism, and to divert attention from the regime’s many failings.

In Canada, Beijing has made it clear that a free trade deal depends on Ottawa pushing through an oil pipeline from Alberta to the British Columbia coast. And if that means Ottawa must override existing planning and environmental assessments, and thumb its nose at what Canadians themselves think about such a project, so be it. You want Beijing’s trade? Adopt Beijing’s values.

In that respect, Wang’s outburst was a good thing. The Liberal government can no longer be under any illusions that the regime it faces in Beijing now has the same attitudes as those it courted in the mid-1990s, or even in the 1970s.

This regime is to be avoided when possible — and approached with extreme caution when necessary.

The new China Syndrome
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I know I'm being childish, but Wang's outburst makes me laugh.
 
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We missed an opportunity to show the world - and China - that we are serious about human rights and freedom of the press. Stephane Dion should have stepped in and said to the Chinese diplomat " With all due respect sir, in Canada, we allow our reporters to ask whatever questions they like - in a respectful manner........now, let me address your question". It's a question of having a backbone. Sadly, Canada is back......to what it used to be.
 
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stephane...stephane is an embarrassing spineless cuck. him and gerry butts mouthpeeth justin. nobody will take these weaklings seriously.
 
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