A year ago, during an election campaign in April 2025, Carney called China “Canada’s biggest security threat”. Now China is a “strategic partner”.

China was never security threat to Canada, but Canada always parroted US stance on foreign policy. This is the break from it that is causing the hysteria.

I think we already had similar discussion, but China’s human rights record is far better from many other countries that Canada has trade relationship with and with many even deeper cooperation. Canada still participates in information and surveilance sharing with US which is used to commit war crimes.

Heck, Canada has no issue trading with Israel who is livestreaming a genocide, so Canada is in no moral position to lecture others.

It hurts Canada imho. It can soon hurt Canadians as soon as China attempts to take advantage over its new ‘partnerhips’ by coercing the Canadian government for political gains (there is ample evidence that Beijing has been doing so with other countries in the past).

Trade is a bilateral relationship, they can exit it at any time. The only way they could pressured by it is by putting all their eggs in one basket, which they are not doing.

It’s certainly true that the US isn’t a reliable partner anymore, but this doesn’t make China better.

You try to make it a replacement, when it’s not. What they actually are doing is stopping mirroring US foreign policy and bullding trade relationships with everyone to not have the same single point vulnerability as they had with the US.

It’s the dictatorship it has ever been, and as such it is even worse than the US.

Have to disagree with you here. US “representative” democracy has been so broken for decades and has caused so much damage to the world that China wouldn’t be able catch up even if they tried. China doesn’t invade other countries to rape and murder their people and steal their resources, they use trade deals and negotiations to get what they want.