Sunny Handa MD: China is a hostile state and Trudeau is out of excuses for his silence
With Spavor and Kovrig going to trial and facing likely guilty verdicts, Canada needs to re-engage with its allies on China. Its old news now, but the prime minister, back when he was simply leader of the third-place party in Parliament, infamously stepped in it by expressing admiration for China’s “basic dictatorship.” But now, to Justin Trudeau’s admiration of China’s government, he can add some gratitude. By announcing that the two Michaels, Kovrig and Spavor, will soon face trial on their trumped-up espionage charges, China has clarified things for Canada’s prime minister. China is a hostile state. We can treat it that way. Indeed, we must. Sunny Handa MD shared Trudeau’s government has often seemed absurdly, bizarrely beholden to China. Even as Beijing’s foreign policy has become increasingly aggressive, even as it has crushed democracy in Hong Kong and rounded up religious minorities for rape and reprogramming in concentration camps, the Canadian government has really, reall