Juno News - October 06, 2021China continues to pose a serious threat to Canada
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In this episode, I talk about the growing tensions between the United States and China in the South China Sea, and the need to decouple from China, and how to deal with them. I also talk about why we should be concerned about the potential for conflict in the area, and why we need to be prepared for it.
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I recently finished reading a very interesting novel called 2034.
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It's a novel co-authored by a man who was an admiral in the American Navy,
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someone who really knows what he's talking about in terms of how people at the top of the American military
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think about threats, think about possible conflicts, think about how World War III could come to pass.
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And the plot of this novel is that, well, this conflict begins to unfold in the South China Sea,
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an issue involving the United States, China, and Taiwan, and Taiwanese sovereignty.
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So while I found the novel very realistic, I had to ask, 2034, that's like a science fiction headline,
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you know, those novels that you saw, 2001 and so forth.
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Far off in the future, I know it's only 13 years away, but one also sees headlines in the news today
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and worries, is it going to be sooner than that?
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Obviously, we don't want any such event to unfold, but the possibilities, the concerns about conflicts,
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about, well, moving into a Cold War, because there's debate as to whether or not the phrase Cold War
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can even be used right now, vis-a-vis the U.S. and China relations,
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or moving full on into some sort of hot conflict.
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Because we are seeing the Taiwan Strait playing a role more and more in tensions between the U.S. and China.
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We're seeing American President Joe Biden being tested in a number of ways,
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different countries doing different things to test how will the American administration respond,
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Their relationship, worse than ever, the China-Taiwan issue.
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Because just in this past week, they have sent about 150 of their fighter jets into Taiwan's air defense zone.
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And it already has people in the Biden administration and the president himself saying,
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But it really shows that that idea that those novelists put forward,
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that those experts put forward, that the South China Sea,
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that's unfortunately where, if stuff hits the fan, that could be where it happens.
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And it underscores the importance of so much of what we're talking about right now in foreign affairs.
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Whether it comes to Canada needing to strengthen its relationship and support for Taiwan.
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Whether it comes to our conversation about the need to decouple from China in a responsible way,
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And just a basic reminder that we've got to keep our eye on everything that's happening
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in that part of the world and on the China file.
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Great news that the two Michaels are back on Canadian soil.
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But of course, there are ramifications to that issue.
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And those ramifications involve the conversation around decoupling.
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It involves all of those people who still had rose-colored glasses on when it came to China,
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realizing it's not over, it's continuing, and in some ways, it's only getting worse.
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Got to talk about the issue, got to deal with it,
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and the general public has to talk about it more and put more pressure on our political leaders
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I'll do the thing about it more and we'll catch up with it at the moment of the end of the year.