The Trudeau government\u0027s obsequious approach to Beijing threatens to isolate it from its international allies
With British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement this week that China’s shadowy “national champion” telecom giant Huawei will be purged from the U.K.’s 5G internet networks entirely by 2027, Canada is now alone among the “Five Eyes” consortium in refusing to bar Huawei from 5G rollouts. This not only threatens Canada’s continuing access to collaborative intelligence-sharing operations with the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
This week, a bipartisan bill dealing with the Hong Kong crisis made its way from the U.S. Congress to the White House where President Donald Trump signed it into law. The Hong Kong Autonomy Act imposes sanctions on Chinese officials involved in the crackdown on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement.
In the first major foreign-policy move of its kind outside the ambit of the European Union, the U.K. last week named 47 individuals — mostly Russians, Saudis, a couple of generals from Myanmar and officials from two prison institutions in North Korea — under the U.K.’s own new Magnitsky Act. Magnitsky laws are named after Sergei Magnitsky, the Russian whistleblower and anti-corruption lawyer who was murdered in a Russian prison in 2009.
“But Canada is stuck,” the Alliance’s Cherie Wong told me. “Canada is stuck behind the U.S., behind other Western countries.” It’s only partly because of the hostage diplomacy Ottawa is engaging in, related to Beijing’s imprisonment of Kovrig and Spavor in retaliation for Canada’s detention of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou on a U.S extradition warrant arising from several bank fraud charges related to sanctions evasion.
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