1024: Canada most vulnerable to hostage drama. Charles Burton, @cburton001; @GordonGChang,
Image: Police often train to recover hostages taken by force, as in this exercise Charles Burton: @cburton001, blogs at RealityChek; and senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad; and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang, Daily Beast, in re: The two Michaels still imprisoned in China, picked up arbitrarily and jailed on false charges in order to force Canada to release Meng. Trudeau Junior will mind his manners with China rather than offend it. Hostage diplomacy—China’s violations of the norms, also of reciprocal d___, is seen in Australia, Japan. China hopes to destroy the rules-based international order in order to have a world ruled by one nation, China, using the Belt and Road Initiative. Canadians are appalled, esp when it came out that Canada had made special exemptions to the covid regulations when her family visited, and endangering her Liongate security team. The Chinese govt sent an airliner to take her home when it thought she could be [grabbed back], a 777 plane that seats 300 people. Life for Canada under Mr Biden will be more challenging than it was under Mr Trump, esp as Biden cancels the Keystone Pipeline. If the Conservatives come in to power and avoid the blandishments of rich corporations that want close relations with China for profit . . . Justin Trudeau is engaging in a policy of appeasement of China. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/meng-wanzhou-canada-bail/2021/01/15/3281d48c-56c0-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/14/china-imprisoned-canadians-phone-families-christmas-michael-kovrig-michael-spavor