{"id":46238,"date":"2017-08-17T12:13:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T16:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=46238"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:13","slug":"burton-chrystia-freelands-disquieting-silence-around-trade-talks-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/08\/burton-chrystia-freelands-disquieting-silence-around-trade-talks-with-china\/","title":{"rendered":"BURTON: Chrystia Freeland&#8217;s disquieting silence around trade talks with China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Charles Burton, Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock, has written\u00a0a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/opinion\/columnists\/burton-chrystia-freelands-disquieting-silence-around-trade-talks-with-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">piece recently\u00a0published in the Ottawa Citizen<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> about secrecy surrounding Canada\u2019s trade talks with China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Burton writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>As Canadians digest a stream of statements and punditry around the upcoming NAFTA negotiations, another discourse \u2014 possibly more consequential for our future \u2014 is being planned in comparative silence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The second China-Canada Foreign Ministers Dialogue was held in Beijing last week, Canada\u2019s Chrystia Freeland sitting down with her counterpart Wang Yi to \u201cexplore ways to further consolidate Canada-China ties,\u201d as Xinhua news agency put it. Upcoming Canada-China trade talks would have topped the agenda.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But despite anxiety across Canada over China\u2019s demands in any new deal, and what is really at stake, we know little about what was even discussed. Freeland flew home with no post-meeting press conference held, no communiqu\u00e9 issued.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Given the shocking spectacle that crowned last year\u2019s edition of this dialogue \u2013 remember Wang\u2019s think-skinned, arrogant berating of a Canadian journalist who asked about China\u2019s human rights record? \u2013 many will suspect the secrecy is Beijing\u2019s precondition to any further talks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/opinion\/columnists\/burton-chrystia-freelands-disquieting-silence-around-trade-talks-with-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Burton, Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock, wrote a piece that was published in the Ottawa Citizen about secrecy surrounding Canada\u2019s trade talks with China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,38],"tags":[4008,4104,5694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95274,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46238\/revisions\/95274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}