Carney lays out security 'guardrails' for China as Canada looks to build up relationship (www.cbc.ca)

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Prime Minister Mark Carney has begun to lay out publicly what he sees as boundaries when dealing with China, as his government wades into a new relationship with the economic giant.

Carney, who earlier this year called China one of Canada's biggest security threats, has more recently spoken openly about resetting the relationship with Beijing as the Liberal government seeks more trading partners in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war.

"The question is how deep is the relationship and how clear are the guardrails around that relationship," he said.

"There are areas, artificial intelligence, critical minerals, defence, where clearly the security threats are such that we would not have a deep relationship with China in those areas."

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[-] Scotty@scribe.disroot.org 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

One thing the article doesn't clearly say is that Canada needs to diversify its trade in all products. As long as some Canadian products are mostly sold to China - as it is the case with Canola - Canada will remain dependent on Chinese markets. This dependency opens opportunities to Beijing for economic coercion and political bullying. China is among a few countries that form the biggest security threats to Canada and the rest of the democratic world.

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