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  • TribblesBestFriend@startrek.websitetoCanada@lemmy.ca•Opinion: How many more times will Beijing fool Canada’s politicians?
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    27 minutes ago

    I find incredibly suspicious that this guy is only mentioned two times in the Wikipedia on Canada-China relation(I think it’s this one so far I’m unable to link the aryicle) and don’t seems to have a Wikipedia page in English only in French (which is less than 10 line)

    In 2005, Charles Burton, an associate professor at [Brock University]Burton’s report, commissioned by the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, was entitled *Assessment of the Canada-China Bilateral Human Rights Dialogueand released in an unclassified public version in April 2006. As revealed by [leaked US diplomatic cables], the “Burton Report” considerably affected Western policy approaches to engagement with China on human rights[[25]]

    Each link (with the exception of the one of Brock University) go back to the article on China-Canada Relations, in short it’s cited itself so I clear them

    In the first year of his prime ministership, Trudeau’s government agreed to talks on a bilateral [extradition treaty] with China in 2016.[[38]] Former diplomat [Charles Burton], presented as a critic of the government policy as the treaty talks were revealed, said in a New York Timesaccount:[[38]]

    We don’t seem to have the linguistic and cultural expertise and political knowledge to defend our interests against a very sophisticated diplomatic engagement by China, which seems to always come out on top.

    Once again each link (with the exception of extradition which go back to extradition) link to the article

    I’ll search for that « Burton’s Report » (which is 11 pages long and don’t seems that important to judge international politics)

    Final edit & my conclusion : Globe&Mail have a tendency to fall in obvious pitfalls and I think this is one. They fall so hard that in one piece they defend the Falung Gun and their spectacle. China is major player and we should fear them and be ready but it seems to me that the Globe&Mail is a source that we shouldn’t trust