{"id":49428,"date":"2018-02-21T10:10:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T15:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=49428"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:07","slug":"burton-canada-china-trade-deal-is-ottawa-selling-out-our-democratic-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/02\/burton-canada-china-trade-deal-is-ottawa-selling-out-our-democratic-values\/","title":{"rendered":"BURTON: Canada-China trade deal \u2014 Is Ottawa selling out our democratic values?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Burton, an associate professor of Political Science at Brock, wrote a piece recently published in The Conversation about Canada&#8217;s need to rethink its approach to China in the midst of stalled trade talks.<\/p>\n<p>Burton writes:<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2018-01\/27\/c_136929491.htm\">According to the Xinhua News Agency<\/a>, a senior Chinese official had a favourable reception last month when he visited Ottawa to try to reframe the stalled trade talks with Canada.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>China\u2019s official state news agency said that Song Tao \u2014 who heads the Communist Party Central Committee\u2019s International Liaison Department \u2014 briefed Canadian officials on Beijing\u2019s plan to displace the United States as the world\u2019s superpower.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It intends to do so by \u201cbuilding of a community with a shared future for mankind,\u201d which Xinhua added is \u201cnot only important to China but bears profound interest for the rest of the world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If the Xinhua report is accurate, Canada is blithely considering a Chinese Communist proposal to sell out the liberal values that define global institutions like the United Nations and World Trade Organization in favour of a made-in-China model that will serve Beijing\u2019s authoritarian nationalist aspirations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s time to realize that decisions being made now are going to radically change the values of global diplomacy and justice for the next century or more.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/canada-china-trade-deal-is-ottawa-selling-out-our-democratic-values-91970?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20February%2021%202018&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20February%2021%202018+CID_810abcd6d4a7a217a73466a212ed7a21&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Canada-China%20trade%20deal%20Is%20Ottawa%20selling%20out%20our%20democratic%20values\" 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 The Conversation about Canada&#8217;s need to rethink its approach to China in the midst of stalled trade talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,38],"tags":[4008,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49428"}],"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=49428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49431,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49428\/revisions\/49431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}