Beijing offers Canada a partnership against the USA. The US is called “bullying”

China offers Canada to create a partnership against the US aggressive actions – the Canadian Press agency said on Wednesday, citing the China Ambassador in Ottawa. Wang Di said in an interview with the agency that China wanted to avoid returning “to the jungle law.”

Wang has now described the US actions as “bullying” (harassment, persecution) and suggested that China and Canada should create a partnership against Washington's undermining the principles that have been governing in global policy and convince other countries to such a partnership. He described Canada as a “neighbor” of China by Pacific.

“We noticed that due to the USA unilateral harassment by the US, Canada did not give way (…) Instead, Canada stands on the right side of history, on the right side of international fair and justice,” said Wang.

He added that China and Canada seem to be the only countries that have taken “specific and real counteracting against unjustified American duties.” He also said that China wanted to use the current possibilities to “cooperate with Canada and other countries to definitely maintain an international system built around the UN and focused on the WTO (World Trade Organization – PAP), a multilateral trade system to oppose all regressive practices.”

Ottawa repeatedly pointed to China as one of the threats to Canada and as a country responsible for attempts to influence Canada's internal policy. This Monday, federal elections will take place in Canada. The polls indicate as a probable winner the Liberal Party, whose leader and current Prime Minister Mark Carney called China during the debate of UB. “The greatest threat to Canada's security”, and the next day he accused China of supporting Russia in the invasion of Ukraine.

Canadian relations with China are difficultespecially from the imprisonment in China of two Canadians, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig in December 2018. They were arrested after when in Canada detained the US vice president Huawei Meng Wanzhou and released only in 2021, when the Vancouver court conducting the extradition proceedings ended the proceedings for the US. In March this year The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada Mélan Jola announced that four Canadians have been enforced in China in the past months.

At the end of March this year. Canada filed a complaint against China regarding duties imposed on Canadian agricultural products and Canadian seafood. Last year Canada imposed 100 percent on China duties on electric cars and 25 percent duties on steel and aluminum.

Wang told The Canadian Press that Beijing will gladly abandon his duties on Canada if Canada hangs his duties on China. He added that the relations between the two countries should have market rules and rules, not ideological decisions.

Last week, the Bloomberg agency reported that Chinese refineries significantly increased the import of oil from Canada, after reduced by 90 percent. oil imports from the USA. At the beginning of May last year The extensive Trans Mountain pipeline began to operate, tanker can receive charges of Canadian oil from the terminal near Vancouver. Ultimately, the pipeline will be transported 890 thousand. oil barrels a day.

Bloomberg reported that in March this year Chinese oil import by the terminal in Vancouver was 7.3 million barrels, and in April it could be even higher. However, the import of oil by China from the USA fell from 29 million barrels in June last year. to currently 3 million.

Professor Roland Paris from the University of Ottawski, cited by The Canadian Press, specializing in international policy said that Beijing is trying to promote his interests and these activities often put China in the opposite position to Canada. He warned that Canadian companies should carefully approach Beijing, who in the past conducted economic activities similar to the current decisions of US President's administration Donald Trump.

The Canadian Press explained that it was from the Chinese embassy that the conversation came and the interview was carried out with the participation of the translator.

From Toronto Anna Lach (PAP)

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