How many journalists have taken sponsored China trips? Or trips to any other country?

We know how things work.

You are just parroting propaganda.

It’s time for some allies, like Europe

Yeah, but Carney didn’t make a deal with Europe last week but rather with another bully that doesn’t value the rule of law. I hope Mr. Carney corrects this mistake.

Oh, no, your fellow Chinese worker will still suffer from forced labour under the same regime while the markup goes the corporation owner. It’s just now a Chinese company owner under the control of a dictator. That’s the same thing, but you criticize the one and praise the other. What a hypocrisy.

with a small markup for the fellow poorly paid American assembly worker

You forget that the fellow poorly paid Chinese assembly worker endures even more hardship under a coerced labour regime. We must have transparent global supply chains - something China has been lobbying against for years - ‘if this shit is to ever get better.’

So we see another chapter of coercion, it’s just that tankies will now whining while applauding when China is doing the same thing. Beijing has been bullying its ‘partner’ countries for decades, now we have one bully more in the world. Canada would be well-advised if it traded away as much as it can from both the U.S. and China.

Has someone said that a rules-based order and democratic systems are better for the world than these regimes?

You might have (intentionally?) misunderstood the content.