Juno News - December 29, 2021


How will Canada deal with China in 2022？


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3 minutes

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Word count

698

Sentence count

29

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Misogyny

1

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In this episode, we talk about the growing tensions between Canada and China and how we can work together to decouple ourselves from China. We talk about what Canada can do to make sure that China does not have further leverage over us in the years to come and in the decades to come.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 When it comes to big year-in-review stories happening here in Canada,
00:00:07.640 one of the biggest stories, aside from COVID-19, of course, has been dealing with China.
00:00:13.220 And we see Canadians are increasingly frustrated with the authoritarian Chinese Communist Party regime of Xi Jinping.
00:00:20.200 They're seeing what's really going on there.
00:00:22.340 More and more news stories are making them think,
00:00:24.540 hold on a second, do we really want to cozy up to this nation?
00:00:27.660 Or do we want to do more to decouple from China, to distance ourselves from that nation, 0.98
00:00:32.960 and to stop that rising global superpower from bringing us more into their orbit, 0.61
00:00:37.640 from allowing them to have even more leverage over us?
00:00:41.160 Lots of people were frustrated with the Two Michaels story,
00:00:43.960 seeing the story about the young tennis player seemingly being disappeared for a bit
00:00:48.280 after she made an allegation of sexual assault against a former Chinese Communist Party senior ranking official.
00:00:54.600 All of these things are causing more and more people to wake up,
00:00:57.240 and public opinion in Canada is against China more than ever.
00:01:02.860 And now's the opportunity to talk more about things that we can do
00:01:06.500 to make sure that they do not have further leverage against us
00:01:10.140 in the years, in the decades ahead,
00:01:12.600 because this really is about the future stability of Canada.
00:01:15.960 Now one thing we can definitely do is something that most of our allies are actually calling on us to do,
00:01:20.660 whether it's the United States or the UK, which is to ban Huawei,
00:01:25.520 to say no to that company from playing a role in helping devise our 5G infrastructure grid.
00:01:31.660 I think that's the big obvious one.
00:01:33.720 There's some other smaller, somewhat more technical issues that really need to be talked more amongst the general public,
00:01:40.440 like the fact that we need to put a ban on state-owned enterprises from being able to purchase Canadian firms,
00:01:46.920 particularly firms of a sensitive nature.
00:01:49.660 There's been a lot of talk about this,
00:01:51.400 because China goes out and their state-owned enterprises,
00:01:54.060 which are public sector companies that are companies that are controlled by the Chinese government,
00:01:58.960 they go out and they try and buy various different assets around the world.
00:02:02.440 I think a lot of people would be surprised to see just how much China owns around the world. 0.82
00:02:07.180 And we got to say no to them being able to do that here in Canada,
00:02:09.980 because they're bidding on various projects, they're trying to purchase things.
00:02:13.320 The Trudeau government actually recently rejected two bids that they did,
00:02:17.360 trying to buy corporations here.
00:02:18.860 I think it's good that the government made those decisions,
00:02:20.780 and let's hope they make more moving forward.
00:02:23.180 But we can also change the laws here and the rules,
00:02:25.760 such that the Chinese government just isn't allowed to buy up entities in Canada that are important to us.
00:02:31.400 One other big thing is withdrawing from the Asian Investment Infrastructure Bank.
00:02:36.240 This is an organization that was created by China to kind of be their replacement of things like the World Bank
00:02:42.360 and the International Monetary Fund.
00:02:44.240 And whatever you think of those global finance operations,
00:02:47.140 those are things that more come from a post-World War II U.S.-led infrastructure,
00:02:53.260 where U.S. values and by default Canadian and Western values are ones that are generally driving the conversation.
00:02:59.300 China is saying, uh-uh, we want to redirect the game in our favor.
00:03:03.240 And Justin Trudeau, along with former finance minister Bill Morneau,
00:03:05.840 they actually signed Canada up for that project.
00:03:08.140 But what are we doing there?
00:03:09.440 Should we really be a part of something that is trying to redirect things in China's favor?
00:03:14.040 There are various other initiatives that we can be a part of that China is also a part of many of them,
00:03:18.520 but just aren't led by China, aren't driven by them and by their values.
00:03:22.020 So we got to talk more about heading in that direction.
00:03:24.540 Regardless, lots of action items that are on the table for Canadians to consider
00:03:28.860 because they've made it clear that they're really cautious about the relationship with China.
00:03:33.460 So that's the direction that we got ahead in.
00:03:35.540 Thank you.