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Remaking Canada’s China Strategy

19 Aug 2019

But it does call for whichever Canadian political party that assumes power in the next federal election to undertake the challenging work of remaking Canada–China relations in a way that recognizes the severe shortcomings of where Canada has been with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the urgent need to strengthen Canada’s commitment to Canadian sovereignty and Canada’s proper place in the [...] This is in sharp contrast to the promise of the Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao periods, which, still being under the firm control of the CPP, held out the promise that Chinese politics was evolving – to strengthen rule of law and the independence of the judiciary, enhance the authority of political institutions, including the National People’s Congress, and devolve political authority to a form of coll [...] In 2013, the Chinese Communist Party issued a “Communiqué on the Current State of the Ideological Sphere” (Document 9), described as a critique of the “liberal ways of thinking.” It calls for stricter control of the media (including Internet censorship) and the purging from educational curricula, including at the post-secondary level, of any reference to “extremely malicious” ideals such as discus [...] Many perceive that polarization of wealth and extreme en- richment of the families of the CCP’s founding revolution- aries resulting from perversion of the post-Mao “opening and reform” policies have been a betrayal of the fundamen- tal Marxist principles that legitimate the assumption of state power by the CCP. [...] Under Xi Jinping, this leftist denunciation is suppressed even more vigorously than the liberal critique, suggesting that the Party is most concerned about the Chinese contemporary underclass coalescing to repeat the revolution and through direct action demand a return to the norms of the early years of China’s worker-peasant-soldier regime’s “dictatorship of the proletariat” over the new CCP “bou
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Ottawa, ON, CA

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