{"id":48618,"date":"2018-01-02T11:26:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T16:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=48618"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:08","slug":"burton-canada-drops-charade-of-progressive-trade-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/01\/burton-canada-drops-charade-of-progressive-trade-with-china\/","title":{"rendered":"BURTON: Canada drops charade of progressive trade with China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Burton, an associate professor of Political Science at Brock, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/politics\/canada-drops-charade-of-progressive-trade-with-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote a piece recently published in Maclean&#8217;s<\/a> about the present opportunity for a serious reconsideration of the trade relationship between Canada and China.<\/p>\n<p>Burton writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>Besides skewering Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u2019s China strategy, Beijing\u2019s gruff\u00a0recent refusal\u00a0to factor labour, gender or environmental rights into free-trade talks was significant in other ways.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It likely marks Canada\u2019s last gasp in a futile, decades-long effort to engage China in global institutions on Western terms.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In the early 1980s, after \u201cRed China\u201d abandoned its Maoist revolutionary agenda to pursue strength and prosperity through international trade,\u00a0Canada began transferring hundreds of millions\u00a0of taxpayer dollars to China\u2019s post-Mao regime through the Canadian International Development Agency, the World Bank and other UN agencies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Basically, China named a request and Canada signed a cheque.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We paid the cost of\u00a0feasibility studies\u00a0for the Three Gorges Dam,\u00a0we sold China CANDU nuclear reactors\u00a0on highly favourable terms, we funded projects to\u00a0improve the quality of Chinese wheat and pork production.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Most importantly,\u00a0we paid for Chinese scientists, engineers and technicians\u00a0to come to Canada to acquire Canadian advanced technologies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/politics\/canada-drops-charade-of-progressive-trade-with-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Burton, an associate professor of Political Science at Brock, wrote a piece recently published in Maclean&#8217;s about the present opportunity for a serious reconsideration of the trade relationship between Canada and China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,38],"tags":[4008,4104,6136],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48618"}],"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=48618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48624,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48618\/revisions\/48624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}