🇨🇦🇨🇳 Canada has broken with the Western posture on China it followed for decades. In a recent speech given in Beijing, Prime Minister Mark Carney reframed China not as a caricatured adversary, but as a predictable great power, a major source of economic opportunity, and a partner in green energy where the U.S. has stepped back.
There was never a deep historical basis for hostility between the two countries; Canada largely followed Washington’s leadership in containing China. But as U.S. “national security” increasingly takes the form of territorial ambition, Ottawa has recalculated. Blind alignment no longer serves Canadian interests. To remain relevant in a multipolar world, Canada must chart its own course—and China is central to that shift.
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