The United States, the European Union and Japan all agree with the blindingly obvious, that China is indeed a “non-market” economy, that Beijing duped the World Trade Organization in gaining membership 17 years ago, and that Xi Jinping is moving China ever farther from anything resembling a “normal” trading country by the hour.
With nearly a quarter of a century of lucrative post-politics sinecures, Canada-China “friendship” sleazebaggery and shameless pro-Beijing think-tankery having taken its moral and intellectual toll, it is no wonder that the very idea that China is some kind of normal trading country has been normalized.
But it is no laughing matter that among the G7 countries, Canada’s political class remains uniquely persistent in its refusal to recognize China for what it is: a vicious, expansionist police state ruled by a violent, corrupt oligarchy that is quite explicit about its intent to overthrow the American-led world order that has guaranteed Canada’s peace and prosperity over the past 70 years.
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