If anyone is interested in this topic or the growing agressive foreign policy by China I highly recommend listening to the “China Rising” podcast. It’s by a Global news correspondent and despite the sort of cheesy tone does provide good information about this particular case but as well generally speaking China’s desire to assert itself as a global power. It’s pretty interesting. Each episode is conveniently only about 30 mins so they don’t drag on for useless stuff which is nice. To the point.
Glad this resulted in a peaceful resolution, need more of that. Need to kick open the door to diplomacy to prevent a war. The Taiwan situation is particularly concerning.
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It's good to have the Michaels back. Unfortunately, as China's influence grows and the West's dims, I anticipate even more of this type of blatant bullying.
If you're not a fan of this of behaviour, every time you're out shopping, make the conscious effort to read the place of manufacture and if the item says Made In China, put it back and buy something built elsewhere. Ideally Canada, but Korea, Japan, India, USA, Europe, whatever. Yes, it will cost more. Yes, it's no longer always possible to avoid Chinese products. But when you have the choice, put your money elsewhere. Our politicians and business leaders sold out a long time ago, but us peons as a collective can still exert a little bit of influence.
You realise of course that China is just doing exactly the same thing the west has done, using its economic power to bully the rest of the world, there is no difference between them and the US, in fact if anything China up until now has been significantly less aggressive
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It's still early in the process and all, but just out of curiosity, when these highly politicized situations happen, do they sign NDA's when being released? Just seems like there aren't any media interviews in these situations even after the individuals have settled down. I can't say how I'd react, but surely if I was put in this situations I'd like to tell the media about the bad treatment and to not buy Chinese, etc., but I wonder if they'll be "allowed" to talk about it?
If anyone is interested in this topic or the growing agressive foreign policy by China I highly recommend listening to the “China Rising” podcast. It’s by a Global news correspondent and despite the sort of cheesy tone does provide good information about this particular case but as well generally speaking China’s desire to assert itself as a global power. It’s pretty interesting. Each episode is conveniently only about 30 mins so they don’t drag on for useless stuff which is nice. To the point.
Glad this resulted in a peaceful resolution, need more of that. Need to kick open the door to diplomacy to prevent a war. The Taiwan situation is particularly concerning.
I would recommend Barri Weiss' two-part interview with Josh Rogin.
P.S. Also, the latest edition of the All-In podcast - the AD&D fans with really appreciate the "China is Lawful Evil" line.
You realise of course that China is just doing exactly the same thing the west has done, using its economic power to bully the rest of the world, there is no difference between them and the US, in fact if anything China up until now has been significantly less aggressive
Yes, literally everybody knows that. Doesn’t make it ok.
You realise of course that China is just doing exactly the same thing the west has done, using its economic power to bully the rest of the world, there is no difference between them and the US, in fact if anything China up until now has been significantly less aggressive
You kill me man.
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Basically stating point blank that the US government provided no conditions whatsoever for the release of the Michaels as condition for Mang Wanzhou's release, and that both situations and timing are completely coincidental and unrelated.
Ok.
Not that the details matter in the grand scheme of things. China took 2 Canadians hostage as retaliation to an obligation with a US treaty, and Canada got absolutely nothing out of it and stuck in between a squabble between two world powers.
Canadians must realize that both China (and the US for that matter) are not our friends. Canada had zero power through the whole process (and I put zero blame on the Trudeau government for the situation he got delt on this one). As asked in the question period, who will be the two next Michaels? Why even chance travelling to China?
I live in China. Life's pretty good here. Some things I would like done differently, by that's like any country. I don't feel like I'm in danger. The people I know when commenting on the Wenzhou case are reasonable.
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