Together, the Meng trial and the pandemic offer Canada a golden opportunity GlobeDebate
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Lynette Ong is a China expert and political scientist based at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
China’s seemingly retaliatory detention of two Canadian citizens, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, represents a crisis in which we have no control with respect to our entry or potential exit.Her case is as much a trial about charging a corporate executive of bank fraud and violating sanctions against Iran as it is a high-stakes game being played by great powers using a middle power as a pawn.
Ms. Meng’s case may seem like a black swan in Canada’s bilateral relations with China – one that sandwiched us between two belligerent and irascible superpowers. Yet, seen differently, it also presents us with new strategic opportunities to spark a new beginning for Canada – a chance to reimagine its place in the world and recalibrate its relationship with both great powers.
But that has changed with the rise of a more assertive, economically weighty and authoritarian China and the concomitant decline in U.S. economic prowess and global leadership. This has allowed China to pick fights – individually – with Western countries.
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