China’s chief diplomat told Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly Friday that Beijing wants to “inject momentum into the restoration of normal relations,” but said the Asian power will brook no criticism of human-rights abuses or its menacing threats to the island democracy of Taiwan.
Foreign Minster Wang Yi sat down with Ms. Joly in Beijing to discuss what he called the “difficulties and twists and turns” in Sino-Canadian relations that have been strained for nearly six years. The trip to China by Ms. Joly was an attempt to reopen channels of dialogue.
Relations fractured after China imprisoned Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor in late 2018 in retaliation for Ottawa’s detention of a senior Huawei executive on a U.S. extradition warrant. China was also angered by revelations of its extensive influence operations in Canadian domestic affairs that led to a public inquiry into foreign interference.
Probably because they began the genocidal sinicization of Tibet in 1950, yet the world largely ignored it while continuing to support the Chinese economy through manufacturing.
Only with the Uyghur genocide of the last decade have nations begun to care enough to criticize, likely due to their production of goods through forced labor.
Maybe the world would’ve cared sooner if they forced the Tibetan monks to make cheap plastic junk for Amazon and Walmart.