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Originally Posted by RogerWilco
I'm just curious. So do you think we should just keep the status quo? Get lots of cheep stuff, sell some of our grain, and just put out a travel advisory that China may not be the best place to travel? Ignore our treaties with other countries and let Meng Wanzhou go home? If the perception is that we cant do anything than lets not do anything? Not sure where you are going with this but it doesn't sit well with me.
As for the Olympics I really don't know how you send Canadians to a country that has a travel advisory that says:
"China - Exercise a high degree of caution. Exercise a high degree of caution in China due to the risk of arbitrary enforcement of local laws."
This is from our own government travel advisory website.
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Status quo? No.
I will say this one more time though....you have to hit them in the wallet to have any effect. Boycotting the Olympics doesnt do that....in any way, shape or form.
Also, as stated many times, when you are as small a player as Canada and unless you have a coalition of their large trading partners, you simply cant go it alone either. You only end up hurting your own economy and China will just carry on.
Sorry it "doesnt sit well with you" but this is the real world and how it is working at this time and extremely unlikely to change until the majority of the developed world all gets on the same page.
So we need the USA, The UK, France, Germany, Japan and Italy to all get on board as well....or at least a few of them
Aint happenin.
Really no idea why travel warnings are any part of this discussion but....they dont apply to the athletes because if China did anything to any of them during the games, then they really would likely have a united response from the rest of the world. The 08 games went off without a hitch as an example.
As a tourist though? Yeah, I wouldnt take the chance. Though you know there will be lots of them that do.