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Scotty

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  • Canada: Two Doctrines and One Way Ahead

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  • We can't make India and China and Australia agree with us on all core values ...

    Naming China in the same sentence as Australia in this context is odd.

  • Canada’s elite media wants you to serve in the military

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  • This 'manufactured consent' is a very widespread propaganda buzzword, and from the way it is mostly used there are strong doubts that many people have read the book where it comes from. But Herman and Chomsky's book "Manufacturing consent" is heavily used in Chinese propaganda circles, there is even a Chinese translation as you may know (while other Western books are censored in China. Why?)

    This is pure propaganda that leads any discussion always to some sort of 'class struggle.' It's always a fight. It's all about us and them. If you don't share the opinion, you are the enemy. In this setting, no other solution is possible. Period.

  • Canada deal on Chinese EVs shows trade ‘trumped national security’: experts

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  • China is likely to invest in Canadian production to support North American sales.

    Chinese EVs are an improvement.

    Even if China builds EVs in Canada, they will bring its own migrant workers from China as they always do. Also, supply chains of these cars are fully integrated with Chinese companies only.

    Chinese EVs aren't an improvement. It becomes harder for Canada to develop its own industry, and makes the government in Ottawa vulnerable for future coercion.

  • Canada’s elite media wants you to serve in the military

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  • When average corporate media tries to find middle ground position ...

    Is the "elite media" now is trying to "cultivating public consent" as the article says, or - as you say - do they try "to find middle ground"?

    This 'advocacy journalism' is no journalism at all. It doesn't even intend to research all the facts but rather only those that fit into a certain predefined narrative (while accusing others of being biased). Based on this half-truth, they then give you a desired opinion.

    This is inherently bad as it only aims to sow division and makes any civilised political discourse increasingly impossible. That's exactly what extremists from the right and left as well as malign foreign state actors want.

  • Canada’s elite media wants you to serve in the military

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  • Irrespective of the topic, I am a bit tired of this kind of journalism that accuses others - in this case, the "elite media" - of "cultivating public consent," while at the same time it is exactly what they are doing themselves.

    That's a sensationalist headline that gives you the desired opinion (you don't even need to click) and a poor content ignoring major facts important to the issue that are not even mentioned.

    Overall, they have a strong bias in narratives, it's by definition neither independent nor quality media imo.

  • Why cheap Chinese EVs may cost Canada more in the long run

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  • The same poll says that Canadians prioritize human rights and economic opportunities in new trade deals. How did Mr. Carney pursued that?

    That aside, it's just a poll that gave participants a binary choice. If you ask Canadians about their most important economic partners, they paint a different picture: They prefer the European Union (43%), then the UK (40%), Mexico (33%), and only then comes China (27%).

  • Why cheap Chinese EVs may cost Canada more in the long run

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  • The same poll says that Canadians prioritize human rights and economic opportunities in new trade deals. How did Mr. Carney pursued that?

    That aside, it's just a poll that gave participants a binary choice. If you ask Canadians about their most important economic partners, they paint a different picture: They prefer the European Union (43%), then the UK (40%), Mexico (33%), and only then comes China (27%).

  • Why cheap Chinese EVs may cost Canada more in the long run

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  • The "us" in the statement refers to voters.

    Yeah, and myself, too? And those other voters with a opinion different from yours?

    It's a safe bet that you and your like minded 'comrades' don't represent the voters.

  • Warming Canada-China relations shouldn’t extend to Huawei ban, say security experts, parliamentarians

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  • Doesn't it sound weird to yourself when you relentlessly and exclusively convey pro-Chinese propaganda points while accusing others of being biased?

    During the last few days alone, you provided comments with no meaning, made inferences from books you apparently haven't even read, referred to 'intellectuals' you can't name, while constantly spreading pseudo-intellectual opinions paired with second-hand intimidation.

    Why don’t you give up on this community already? Things have been increasingly not going your way here. Stick to communities where the mods and members are more receptive to your agenda.

  • Warming Canada-China relations shouldn’t extend to Huawei ban, say security experts, parliamentarians

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  • @avidamoeba@lemmy.ca

    It's almost hilarious how you are spreading the same pseudo-intellectual 'opinion' on apparently any issue, and everything ends up with the same pro-Chinese rhetoric.

  • Canada has no intent of pursuing free trade deal with China, says PM after Trump threat

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  • we're in a good intellectual company.

    Good. Is there also any literature or something you can recommend?

    [In his book, Carney calls for upholding Canada's core democratic (!) values to maintain sovereignty and economic independence. He advocates for less reliance from other economies to uphold values, but he is not 'against free trade.' This is a misinterpretation.]

    [Edit for clarity.]

  • Trump threatens Canada with 100% tariffs if it 'makes a deal with China'

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  • China is treating all its trading partners like they owe their existence to its largess like the Idiot as soon as it can and Beijing deems it beneficial. This is essentially what collaborating with China is about.

  • Canada has no intent of pursuing free trade deal with China, says PM after Trump threat

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  • ... outsourcing to the invisible hand [what?] ... ends up picking Canadian workers' pockets ...

    These is a meaningless comment.

    And Canada should aim to free trade agreements - with democratically governed countries in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and others.

  • Why cheap Chinese EVs may cost Canada more in the long run

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  • The burden of proof is on you, not us.

    Who is "us"?

    This statement and the tonality of most (your?) statements here says a lot of what this community is about. It's apparent that you don't even have the willingness to engage in good faith discussions.

    There is proof enough about Chinese subsidies and how they differ from any Western democratic standards as well as on the mercantilist nature of China policy. There are a lot of good analyses. Feel free to read them to broaden your horizons (there are some good reports also here on Lemmy as I have seen) and then come back.

    The 'burden of proof' is not on me. I am not here to win an argument. If you prefer to stick to your propaganda channels and parrot always the same narratives, you can do it either. It's your life, do whatever you want with it.

  • Why cheap Chinese EVs may cost Canada more in the long run

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  • You clearly haven't digged into Chinese subsidies and economic policy.

  • Trump threatens Canada with 100% tariffs if it 'makes a deal with China'

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  • The US has become unreliable, but considering China as reliable is a grave mistake nevertheless. Beijing will engage in coercion as soon as it can (as it always does), and the propaganda machinery will then use Trump's move for vindication. The tankies here will tell everyone that China's coercion is justified because the US did it, too. Whataboutism as we know it.

    Canada needs to expand trade with Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and other democratic countries.

  • Why cheap Chinese EVs may cost Canada more in the long run

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  • You clearly haven't digged into Chinese subsidies and economic policy.

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    Why cheap Chinese EVs may cost Canada more in the long run

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  • Adoption of electric vehicles tied to real-world reductions in air pollution, study finds

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