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

darkbeaver

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I wonder what she's like in bed.


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.
We are serious about human rights! First you must define human rights. I wish lettuce or bananas were ruling this planet, o4 radish.
 

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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.

This is true.

Funny how the minister said its up to the chines people to decide, what is acceptable. But arn't allowed to protest :lol:
 

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I'm on my Tobermory 15, but I can still legally drive in one-third of the nations in the developed world.
What the fuk is the developed world? There is no such thing as developed in the natural world, you will conform, reality will beat you into the form, not you though cus you go0t 22
 

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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.


Sunny Ways


Spare me.


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Take your own advice, Colpy.
 

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Ahhhh....I'm not Stephen Harper.

Nor am I the Conservative Party.

If you read back far enough in my posts, you will find that I have always advocated the absolute containment of China militarily, and the isolation of China economically.

I believe war between the west and China is inevitable.

....and they should be treated accordingly....
 

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Kevin Garratt is a Canadian who was operating a coffee shop in Dandong, a city in Northern China near the North Korean border. Garratt, a resident of China for 30 years, was arrested and accused of espionage in 2014 shortly after Ottawa said it had reason to believe state-backed Chinese hackers were targeting Canadian government servers.

Canada says it has been speaking to Chinese officials about the case, but little is known about Garratt's fate.

After Wang's outburst, Globe and Mail reporter Robert Fife stepped up to the mic for his question direct at the Chinese minister, also predetermined by Canadian media, and began by giving Wang a diplomatic rebuke to his attack on Connolly.

"With greatest respect minister, in defence of my colleague here, polls in Canada show Canadians are very concerned about human rights in China," Fife said before starting his question. But Fife's statement was not relayed to the minister in Mandarin by the translator.

Fife also asked how China, which adamantly insists other nations stay out of its internal affairs, can insist Canada lift restrictions on Chinese state-owned enterprises investing in Canada and build an oil pipeline through B.C. as a precondition for any future talks on a free trade deal.

Wang denied such preconditions exist. Those conditions, however, have been written about in Canadian media.

Wang did promise Fife he would find out a firm answer on whether such restrictions do exist.

Wang's promise ended his availability to the media. Reporters left buzzing about the minister's outburst.

At the event, China and Canada also jointly announced the two countries would cooperate further, establishing working teams on various topics including energy and agriculture and ring in a "golden age" of relations between the two nations.

During Wang's outburst, Stéphane Dion stood by silently. Dion's face was near expressionless as Wang, the representative of an unelected government whose laws Amnesty International has said "endanger human rights," berated a Canadian reporter in Canada for asking a Canadian minister about a detained Canadian.

Here are facts about the three issues raised in the question put to Dion.

Why China's Foreign Minister Flipped out in Ottawa Yesterday | The Tyee
 

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Ahhhh....I'm not Stephen Harper.

Nor am I the Conservative Party.

If you read back far enough in my posts, you will find that I have always advocated the absolute containment of China militarily, and the isolation of China economically.

I believe war between the west and China is inevitable.

....and they should be treated accordingly....


I KNOW that you didn't give Harper and crew the same "hard time" that you are giving the Liberals. All I am doing is pointing out how 2 faced you are when it comes to the Libs and the Cons.
 

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One of the journalists should have chided Mr Ambassador about China's claim over the South China Sea... Little ridiculous if you ask me and the Philippines are getting screwed over heavy
 

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I KNOW that you didn't give Harper and crew the same "hard time" that you are giving the Liberals. All I am doing is pointing out how 2 faced you are when it comes to the Libs and the Cons.

.....and you would be wrong.

Simple as that.
 

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So basically JT was apologizing to Putin for the as*hole we call PM Harper. I'm comfy with that and I hope it was as expensive as hell too.
 

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But there is another way of looking at Wang’s petulant outburst—“You have no right to speak on this!”—in response to a question that was put not even to him, but to Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion, that touched delicately on the subject of human rights in China. From a more public-spirited perspective, Wang’s disgraceful harangue of iPolitics reporter Amanda Connolly has helpfully brought into focus a pattern of grovelling and mendacity in Canada-China relations that is rarely so closely observable.
Keeping Wang’s visit a secret until the last minute. Cravenly submitting to Wang’s boorish demands for an immediate audience with the Prime Minister. Disguising Canada’s humiliating obsequiousness in the most absurdly dainty diplomatic euphemisms. Resorting to such preposterous occlusions as to permit a single public encounter and a single query to Wang that required several questions from a variety of news organizations to be combined into a single question, with one follow-up allowed.
All this, and with a single public baring of Beijing’s sharp and bloody teeth, Dion is reduced to just standing there gawping through the whole thing, and the elaborate pantomime comes undone. So perhaps we should all be thanking Wang. Not even Dion’s subsequently frantic exertions in damage control can subtract from the public exhibition Wang made of Beijing’s belligerent, bullying vulgarity on “the world stage,” and of our own government’s kowtowing to it.

Why China's Wang Yi felt free to throw a hissy fit in Ottawa

I KNOW that you didn't give Harper and crew the same "hard time" that you are giving the Liberals. All I am doing is pointing out how 2 faced you are when it comes to the Libs and the Cons.

That would be because Harper et al were not an arrogant bunch of complete incompetents mindlessly intent on doing Canada serious and lasting damage.

I'm not sure how you see that as "two faced".

As soon as the Liberals do anything right, I'll say so. I'm not holding my breath.

When the Conservatives did things wrong, I said so.......
 

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It's because China see us as irrelevant. Because we are.

If we actually had a military, maybe then we could leverage it to ask that the Chines stop treating their people so badly.

The Chines Minister basically said, Who the **** are you, and with what army are you going to back that tough talk with.

It's irresponsible to talk **** when you got **** all to back it up with.
 

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http://www.macleans.ca/news/world/why-wang-yi-felt-free-to-throw-a-hissy-fit-in-ottawa/That would be because Harper et al were not an arrogant bunch of complete incompetents mindlessly intent on doing Canada serious and lasting damage.
If there was any question if a clone had replaced you it is completely removed by this one statement from you. Welcome back. (for what's it's worth and all that)

It's because China see us as irrelevant. Because we are.

If we actually had a military, maybe then we could leverage it to ask that the Chines stop treating their people so badly.

The Chines Minister basically said, Who the **** are you, and with what army are you going to back that tough talk with.

It's irresponsible to talk **** when you got **** all to back it up with.
Not many nations would want to attack us as the prize is mostly tundra.