You may trust Western governments. I don't. I was born in the US. By American logic they think they're an expert on China because they had a vacation there or they took a class in school or they dated an Asian... By those prerequisites I am the expert on them. Obama said that China would never be an innovative country because it lacked political freedom. China is exploding with innovation today that has the West alarmed over Made in China 2025. Why would they be alarmed when they were giving the secrets to innovation to China? It's because political freedom has nothing to do with innovation. It was a trick they wanted to pull on China into reforming politically so they can manipulate Chinese just like how social media companies are accused of evil influence across the Western world undermining democracy and what they accuse other countries of doing to them. If China is exploding with innovation, it means China has more freedom than the West is saying or you don't need political freedom to be innovated. Either case it was a lie and manipulation. If it were so good for China, why would they have lie and connect innovation with political freedom. Hugo Chavez was elected in a democratic vote yet the West rejected it. So why did the West reject a democratic vote. Was it because the government that a democracy voted for wasn't pro-West? Democratic values is not the most important. Being a subordinate to the West is. Does China want reforms to be just like the US in handling coronavirus? China certainly would've had more deaths but never mind because democratic principles are that more important. And if they cared about their democratic principles, they would've accepted Hugo Chavez as leader of Venezuela warts and all. No but instead they were hypocrites. Everyone hates a hypocrite even other hypocrites hate other hypocrites because they know what a hypocrite is motivated by their own selfishness and no one else's interests. Hence why I don't trust them.
The Europeans could've ganged-up the world to confront Trump and that would've stopped him. They don't like Trump yet they did nothing of the sort because they agree with his goals just not the method. Even with Trump as President, they still side with the US. Trump's campaign against Made in China 2025 started with Obama and the EU agreed with him. They said back then there were afraid China domestically producing key technologies would mean China wouldn't be buying it from them. Well first they had laws preventing them from selling most of those technologies to China but they still wanted China not to make it on their own. There was an article in the National Review charging how low China is at when in a poll "nice to everyone" Canada mostly hate China. That's a Western propaganda narrative that Canada is so nice and polite to everyone. Read their history on how they treated minorities and some of their acts were individually worse and more cruel than what happened in the US. It's just in the US more in numbers eclipsed the extraordinary individual cruelty Canadians inflicted. Am I going to trust Canadians who have the reputation of being environment conscience when they ship over half their garbage overseas to lesser developed countries? Any country can make themselves look clean when you ship your garbage to another country that can be taken advantage of. Where's their morally superior conscience now?
It's all these things on why they say we're supposed to trust them blindly on when it's all a lie...
As a "Canadian-Chinese" (really just Chinese since my Canadian citizenship doesn't preclude me from being treated as a second-class citizen), you nailed the Canadian narrative head-on. 100%.