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Bellum_Romanum

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weig2000 said:
Canada has yet another chance to get out of this Meng Wanzhou mess that it created for itself based on the new evidence. If it still wants to, that is. But one gets the feeling that Canada has already been too tightly roped in to the American anti-China bandwagon to get off now. Had it acted earlier, it could have several chances. It could refuse the US extradition request right at the beginning, as some of US allies had done. Trudeau could also have intervened to free Meng before Trump left the office. Unlike Australia, Canada actually had a relatively trouble-free relationship before the Meng incident. Now it just had to dig in and double down - it has recently taken the lead to call on UN Human Right chief to immediately investigate the so-called Xinjiang forced labor allegation.
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It's all about electioneering I.e. vying for maintaining political power and relevance for Trudeau and his Liberals because the atmosphere in Canada is as anti-China as one can get although not quite as visceral or violent in comparison to America.

Democratic politics must cater to the whims and wishes of it's population or popular opinion no matter how stupid or short sighted they maybe. I mean let's be honest, if China was seen as a positive trend or good for votes in any western democracies do we honestly believe that guys like Trudeau wouldn't be lining up to get Chinese investments and support? The fact that China is a non white, non-Christian, non-democratic country, a trifecta of NO's makes it impossible for any leader regardless of their intelligence or moral virtues to go against that reality.
 
Bellum_Romanum

Bellum_Romanum

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weig2000 said:
That's just an excuse for incompetence.
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Mexican politics has a strong anti-American bent and considering that the request made (if such a request was made to Mexico by the U.S.) during Trump Presidency was going to be politically nill from being agreed to by the current Mexican president and government in light of the very anti-Mexico rants made by then candidate Trump and even after becoming the U.S. President. Canada on the other hand was already reeling from the trade embargo/tariff that Trump initiated against Trudeau's Canada which a lot of Canadian jobs actually depend on the cross border trade with the U.S. it's simply next to impossible for the P.M. to resist the American pressure. Canada is a middling country, with a so so military power, on it's own without the U.S. support Canada wouldn't be anywhere frankly speaking. They simply can't afford to bite and spite the very hands that feed them in every literal sense.
 
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