{"id":11565,"date":"2020-05-10T10:35:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T14:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=11565"},"modified":"2020-05-11T21:46:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T01:46:03","slug":"a-spotlight-on-canada-china-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=11565","title":{"rendered":"A Spotlight on Canada-China Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11502 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/NI_canada-flags-china-flags-1024x640-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/NI_canada-flags-china-flags-1024x640-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/NI_canada-flags-china-flags-1024x640-1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/NI_canada-flags-china-flags-1024x640-1-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/NI_canada-flags-china-flags-1024x640-1-624x390.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Prelude: <a href=\"https:\/\/niagaraindependent.ca\/mounting-condemnation-for-ccp-misleading-the-world-on-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mounting Condemnation for CCP Misleading the World on Coronavirus<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>More than one hundred senior political figures and China experts from around the world signed the open letter describing the CCP\u2019s role in allowing the virus to spread beyond Wuhan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 1:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/niagaraindependent.ca\/a-spotlight-on-canada-china-relations-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PM Trudeau Has No Comment<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>In Ottawa, as the cries for a probe of China\u2019s actions mounted, the official comment from the Canadian Government came from the Prime Minister, who stated he would not comment.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 2: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/niagaraindependent.ca\/a-spotlight-on-canada-china-relations-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Critical Assessments<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Obvious posturing has raised questions and concerns by two Canadians who are eminently qualified to analyze Canada-China relations: two former Canadian ambassadors to China, David Mulroney and Guy Saint-Jacques.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 3: <a href=\"https:\/\/niagaraindependent.ca\/a-spotlight-on-canada-china-relations-part-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Political and Business Ties<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>What Canadians are witnessing is that our country\u2019s relations with China are as much about political and business ties as they are about Canada\u2019s foreign policy position.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>By George Journal <\/em>archives Chris George\u2019s weekly Niagara Independent articles. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?tag=niagara_independent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find the original Chris George columns listed here on <a href=\"https:\/\/niagaraindependent.ca\/author\/chris-georgeni18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Niagara Independent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Chris George<\/strong><\/em><em>\u00a0is an Ottawa-based government affairs advisor and wordsmith, president of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>. Contact:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ChrisG.George@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ChrisG.George@gmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Prelude: Mounting Condemnation for CCP Misleading the World on Coronavirus More than one hundred senior political figures and China experts from around the world signed the open letter describing the CCP\u2019s role in allowing the virus to spread beyond Wuhan. Part 1:\u00a0 PM Trudeau Has No Comment In Ottawa, as the cries for a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11565"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11571,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11565\/revisions\/11571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}