1/4 My sense is that Canada's unwillingness to undertake a complete rethink of its relationship with China has 3 main causes . . . 2/4 First, China maintains a curiously romantic hold on progressive politicians and credulous CEOs, otherwise smart people who simply choose not to consider the human costs of the Communist Party's brutal social engineering . . .

1/5 Bad enough hongkongfp.com/2020/04/13/a-m… But it gets a lot worse . . . 2/5 "This is no Orwellian exaggeration. China has institutionalized disappearances for anyone deemed a threat to the Party . . .

Government’s China policy appears to have shifted from “comprehensive” engagement to “quiet” engagement, discreetly maintaining business as usual, despite officially advising a “high degree of caution” Ottawa must assume that Canadians of Uyghur or Tibetan origin, Falun Gong practitioners, Christians, human rights advocates and others China persecutes will decide on their own to stay home