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After being detained by the Canadian government for 1,028 days without cause, Meng Wanzhou finally returned to China without guilt. On the same day that Meng Wanzhou regained his freedom, The two arrested spies, Michael Kovrig and Michael, were released on bail pending further investigation for health reasons and returned to Canada. Because this point in time is too coincidental, many foreign media have spread rumors that this is a "judicial transaction" and that China is currently implementing "hostage diplomacy".
Based on this, at the Foreign Ministry's press conference on September 27, many foreign media reporters raised their own questions about this matter to the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In this regard, Hua Chunying responded strongly, saying that the Michael Kovrig incident and the Meng Wanzhou incident are fundamentally different, the former committed crimes endangering China's national security, and they were allowed to leave the country because of their physical health, and the Canadian ambassador to China also guaranteed them. As for the Meng Wanzhou incident, it was an outright political persecution aimed at suppressing China's high-tech industry.
At the same time, Hua Chunying also added that Canada should not have helped the United States to do this "dirty work" in the first place. Many Canadian media have also begun to pay attention to the Meng Wanzhou incident from 3 years ago, and with the return of Meng Wanzhou, some media have suddenly woken up and bluntly said that the Meng Wanzhou incident is a political manipulation that does not respect the law. Canada should consider its own interests and do what is good for itself, rather than being a thug for other countries. The detention of Meng Wanzhou is a serious mistake made by the Canadian government, and it should quickly admit and correct the mistake and reduce the loss.
Of course, this is not the first time that Canada has followed the instructions of the United States. Since 2019, the Canadian government has begun to follow the United States in suppressing Chinese companies, rejecting Huawei's 5G technology, strictly controlling students from China, and pointing fingers at the so-called "human rights in Xinjiang" issue at United Nations meetings and other public occasions. Even if in the United States, in order to safeguard its own interests, announced the imposition of tariffs on Canadian aluminum products, although Canada is somewhat dissatisfied, it still obeys the United States.
(Canadian Aluminium Products)
First of all, the relationship between Canada and the United States is too close, from national policies to daily necessities, all of which have a close relationship with the United States, which is why Canada and the United States, which has only 37 million people, can reach 500 billion US dollars per year, accounting for half of Canada's total trade volume. It can be seen that Canada's dependence on the United States is relatively large, so Canada can only obey the United States and help the United States do some shady things for the sake of continuous supply to the United States.
Second, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States has become the only superpower in the world today. The United States relies on its strong economic ability and military strength to exercise hegemony in the world, and many countries that have been tough on the United States in history have been retaliated by the United States with heavy blows by the United States by means of suppression, blockade, sanctions, and even military strikes. Under such pressure and lessons from the past, many countries have chosen to rely on the United States to seek asylum, and even willing to be the running dog of the United States to bully the weak and bully the strong.
As we all know, Canada's land area ranks in the top ten in the world, and it can also be regarded as a "big country". So, the question is, is Canada willing to lead the way for the United States?
The answer is not necessarily, in the history of the United States has carried out many invasions against Canada, even allowing Canada to use money to buy usurped land, and even repeatedly attacked Canadian agriculture and trade, imposing retaliatory tariffs. The United States adopted economic control and made Canada an economic colony dependent on the United States. Former Prime Minister Laurier even said that although the United States and Canada share the same language, they are a selfish and vicious neighbor.
(Old Trudeau)
It wasn't until trudeau Sr. took office that Canada reluctantly escaped from being a vassal of the United States. However, as the times changed, the Canadian government, out of the interest-maximizing consideration, abandoned the old Trudeau's toughness and continued to act according to the will of the United States on some things.
Unfortunately, Canada is too far from heaven and too close to the United States, and even if Little Trudeau comes to power, he will not have the toughness of his father when he faced the United States. When the bones of the Canadian government will harden, it is unknown.