generalspeaking

Beijing's CCP Agenda : Unapologetically Pro-China

"That is the question [how Canada is to proceed with its normal trajectory in international trade] that I think probably needs a royal commission."
"Or, at least, premiers and provinces getting together with the kind of effort that we put into the last great seismic change in how we manage ourselves, which was free trade with the United States."
"We were one of the great beneficiaries of globalization. Trade has made our prosperity but how do we manage now?"
"I do think that it's going to be different now. And I also think China is changing. They always feel that the West and the rest of the world will take advantage of them. Which is ironic because, of course, that's exactly what Trump is saying."
Colin Robertson, vice-president, fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute

"We're stuck between our first and third-largest trading partner. Obviously for geographical reasons and because our economy is so integrated with the United States, we're going to side with the U.S. in any geopolitical conflict with China."
"But it's pretty obvious that the United States is moving in the direction of more managed trade and a much more nationalistic agenda."
"I think we have an idealistic view about the global marketplace. I think that needs to change. We need to prepare to be much more unapologetically pro-Canadian."
"We should be unapologetic about trying to cultivate certain competitive advantages in the Canadian economy recognizing the importance of bigness and scale."
Sean Speer, policy researcher, former federal economic adviser

A shipment from China of 8.6 million protective face masks and 150 tons of sanitary equipment arrives at Paris-Vatry Airport in France, on April 19, 2020. (Photo by Francois Nascimbeni/AFP via Getty Images)

Mr. Speer's recommendation sounds like a very familiar formula: bigness and scale, doesn't that form China's basis for world domination in trade? As for Mr. Robertson's observation of China's persecution complex; it is a reversal of reality, for China under the Chinese Communist Party has cleverly, assiduously and aggressively taken advantage of the rest of the world, to launch its long-range plan as an export titan, hoping to overtake the current champion, the United States. China's ambition and its tentacles are global and sinister.

"The Wuhan Virus and the attendant misery that the Chinese communist state has unleashed upon the world [very much including its own people] has laid bare a core structural flaw in the assumptions underpinning globalization. It turns out that the radical interweaving of markets — which was supposed to lead to the 'complex interdependence' that international relations theorists have been predicting for the better part of the century would lead to an increase in global stability... has instead created an inherently fragile and teetering structure that is exacerbating uncertainty in a time of crisis...."
Andrew Michta, Dean, College of International and Security Studies, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies

The accusations of responsibility and failures to advise launched by U.S.President Donald Trump against Beijing since the world has seen its populations grossly endangered by a zoonotic emanating out of Wuhan City in Hubei Province, China, has exacerbated a trade war that preceded the global pandemic between the U.S. and China. It is beyond question that Beijing failed to properly raise an early alarm over the emerging viral threat to forewarn the international community, thus placing its own interests in stifling the news, well above the welfare of other nations.


And this is typical of Beijing. Despite that, and its manipulation of the World Health Organization and its reciprocal unctuous assent to Beijing, China bristles at any references to SARS-CoV-2 being referred to as yet another 'Chinese' virus, denies it has endangered the world by its laxity in a timely alert, and damns any who would dare to close their borders to China as 'racist', while seeing no reason not to close its own borders to the outside world for fear of re-contamination by European travellers infected with the virus bringing a second invasion to China.

Beijing was swift to close off Hubei's border with the rest of China, while remaining unconcerned that their border with China's neighbours remained open. In sympathy with China's efforts to control the virus running amok internally, some countries like Canada, sent personal protection equipment meant for health workers to China, only later to find themselves short of the needed supplies when the virus disastrously invaded their own borders. China returned the favour by shipping out similar equipment once its viral infection rate had been subdued.

As the world's largest producer of such supplies, those nations under attack by COVID-19 desperately sought to contract with Chinese manufacturers of the needed surgical and N95 masks and respirators to cope with the flood of cases inundating their hospitals. One country after another, after receiving their orders discovered the gowns, masks, respirators and other equipment to be severely deficient to the point of useless.


Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Georgia, India, Ireland, Malaysia, Philippines, Slovakia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, all discovered shipments of masks, testing swabs and other medical equipment to be useless. Beijing responded by accusing those complaining of the lack of quality and dependability of the products, to be 'politicizing' the situation.

U.S.President Trump has declared his intention to fast-track removal plans for global industrial supply chains from China. While Japan, representing the world's third largest economy, is preparing to set aside billions in support for moving Japanese companies' production out of China. Australia has been placed on notice that Beijing is threatening a trade war after the Canberra government called for an inquiry to answer the question of where COVID-19 originated; in a government biohazard laboratory in Wuhan, or a 'live' animal market in Wuhan.

On track to become a global competitor on the pre-eminent scale of the United States in an emerging bipolar trade world to accomplish its goal to overtake the United States as the world's most powerful nation, Beijing feels itself closer to its goal. The tragedy that has overtaken the world with four million cases of COVID infections, and over a quarter-million deaths caused by SARS-CoV-2, may have dismayed China at first concerning its ranking and robust trade, but it soon recovered its confidence and now presents itself as the world saviour from the virus, sending badly needed equipment everywhere.

As tainted and useless for the purpose designed as all too many products originating in China. A China that is responsible for having originated a deadly virus that is now rampaging across continents, killing the vulnerable and destroying the economies of a world in lockdown attempting to control a global pandemic that has erased human social contact as we know it, yet presenting itself as having the key to the control of the threat, magnanimously offering completely useless aid.