My or any government other than China’s have nothing to do when Chinese firms ignore safety, labor and other regulations. This is pure whataboutery.

Russian drone strikes immediately follow Trump-Putin talks

A hospital in Sumy was bombed in a wave of attacks on Ukraine … The Kremlin said after Trump and Putin’s call that the Russian president had given immediate orders for such strikes to stop.

Such agreements work if you have neighbors who are committed to human rights and the international law. Unfortunately, this is not the case.

This is a direct consequence of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, very much like Finland and Sweden’s Nato membership.

As an example among countless others of your so-called ‘unintentional consequences,’ this is from 2012, when the one-child policy was still in place and there was outrage after Chinese woman forced to abort in seventh month

A woman in the western [Chinese] town of Ankang posted a gruesome photo after she was forced to have an abortion in the seventh month of her pregnancy. After the photo spread across the Internet in China, authorities in the Shannxi province have announced that they are sending a team to investigate, and will “deal with the case seriously in accordance with the law.” […]

Feng told a Caixin reporter that she was forced into the abortion because she can’t afford the 40,000 RMB ($6,300) penalty imposed by the local family planning department […]

Feng Jianmei said that on June 2 more than 20 staff from the town’s family planning department came to her home and arrested her. On the way to the hospital, as she resisted, she said she was beaten by the authorities.

During the injection, lethal to the fetus, none of her family was allowed to be present. When her father-in-law heard the news and rushed to the hospital he was prevented from entering the obstetrics ward. […]

Done.

I am not even sure if Finland could help. How many eggs can a relatively small country like Finland (or Denmark that was asked last week to deliver eggs) deliver to a large country as the U.S.? What difference could that make?

As an addition:

Sex-selective abortions over the past four decades in China – (Study, published February 2025)

China now faces multiple challenging demographic and public policy problems that have emerged from four decades of sex-selective induced abortions […] The annual proportions and number of selective abortions [meaning that female fetuses were aborted much more often than males] rose in the 1980s with the strict family planning policy […] In China, the long-standing preference for sons, easy access to sex-selective technologies, and the spontaneous fertility decline have led to the continued practice of selectively aborting female fetuses, despite its prohibition. As a result, the imbalanced sex ratio may take years to normalize.

As an addition:

Sex-selective abortions over the past four decades in China – (Study, published February 2025)

China now faces multiple challenging demographic and public policy problems that have emerged from four decades of sex-selective induced abortions […] The annual proportions and number of selective abortions [meaning that female fetuses were aborted much more often than males] rose in the 1980s with the strict family planning policy […] In China, the long-standing preference for sons, easy access to sex-selective technologies, and the spontaneous fertility decline have led to the continued practice of selectively aborting female fetuses, despite its prohibition. As a result, the imbalanced sex ratio may take years to normalize.

As an addition:

Sex-selective abortions over the past four decades in China – (Study, published February 2025)

China now faces multiple challenging demographic and public policy problems that have emerged from four decades of sex-selective induced abortions […] The annual proportions and number of selective abortions [meaning that female fetuses were aborted much more often than males] rose in the 1980s with the strict family planning policy […] In China, the long-standing preference for sons, easy access to sex-selective technologies, and the spontaneous fertility decline have led to the continued practice of selectively aborting female fetuses, despite its prohibition. As a result, the imbalanced sex ratio may take years to normalize.

exacerbated in China’s case by the now-revoked One-Child Policy’s unintentional demographic consequences

These ‘unintentional demographic consequences’ were predictable, as the sex ratio became skewed toward males. Parents in rural areas were allowed a second child if the first was a daughter. In addition, having a girl became highly undesirable in China at the time, resulting in a rise in abortions of female fetuses,

Another effect was that the births of subsequent children after the first one went unreported or were hidden from authorities. These children- who, according to the authorities, should not have been born- were and still are banned from healthcare or free education, from travel or even from such simple things like using a library. The number of such children is not known, estimates have ranged from the hundreds of thousands to several million.

All this is very bad, and the authorities knew all this.

Thanks, done.

In other news last week, a man was charged with setting fire to Warsaw store as part of Russian sabotage campaign in Poland

A Belarusian man has been charged in Poland with carrying out a terrorist act on behalf of Russia. The suspect, who reportedly posed as a Belarusian oppositionist seeking refuge in Poland, is accused of setting fire to a large retail store in Warsaw as part of a broader sabotage campaign orchestrated by Moscow.

The incident in question happened just a month before an even larger fire that destroyed Warsaw’s largest shopping centre, and which the Polish authorities have also attributed to Russia […]

Let them join the EU!

Zhu Hengpeng, who worked for a Chinese government thinktank for more than 20 years, disappeared a few months ago after making disparaging remarks on China’s economy, including the GDP growth and other metrics. You’ll find ample evidence for this.

Gemini says source of claim is …

Thanks for this. If you don’t have better sources than Gemini, I end this discussion.

Hateful warmongering against China has forced it on a “delete America” program. This is opportunity for Canada. Divisiveness from US is needed instead of evil against China.

Your comments are outright wrong. This is not hateful warmongering, I am offering simple facts. The 5% growth rate in China is most likely wrong. Even one of China’s leading economists recently claimed that growth rates in the country are more around 2% (he has since disappeared).

A lot of China’s EV manufacturers already went bankrupt or ceased production in recent years due to fierce price wars, but the country has still a huge overcapacity, and we see the same pattern in practically all other industries.

(To use your language: just look at the numbers instead of repeating the Chinese propaganda absurdity.)

Extremely shameful and destructive for the lacks of talks between Canada and China. Tariffs were put on with not even a phone call, as Sulivan met with Trudeau one weekend.

Talks between Canada and China have been going on all the time, but China doesn’t appear to listen. The government in Beijing ordered Chinese companies to overproduce -EVs and other products- as they think this is the only way to support their troubled economy. They make decisions in complete disregard of anyone else. I don’t say tariffs or other protectionist measure are a good thing, but a free competitive market only works if everyone plays according to the rules. China doesn’t.

“Putin is not seeking a truce, ceasefire or peace,” Finnish President Stubb said after the virtual meeting

Finnish President Alexander Stubb is took part in a Ukraine support summit on Saturday. The meeting was held remotely, hosted by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer as a follow-up to one held in London on 2 March.

Starmer’s office said that 26 leaders including European partners, the EU commission, Nato, Ukraine, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and others – dubbed the ‘coalition of the willing’ – took part in the summit. As with the previous meeting, there was no representative from the United States […]

Putin is not seeking a truce, ceasefire or peace. His fundamental goal, namely the destruction of Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, has not changed at all," Stubb [said].

No one wants and needs ‘affordable’ EVs made with slavery-like labour.

The law and politics of a hypothetical application by a country geographically outside of Europe

[…] a European state does not mean one limited to the continent of Europe. Before 1985, Greenland was—via Denmark—part of the European Union’s predecessor the European Economic Community (EEC) despite being on the North American continental shelf […] Indeed, the European Union expressly recognises nine “outermost regions”—some as far away as the Indian Ocean—as part of the European Union. And in addition to this there are 13 overseas territories with a special relationship with the EU, including Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, which is just off the coast of, well, Canada […]

In essence, a European state need not, from a geographic perspective, be confined to Europe or even part of Europe. It would appear being European is state of mind […]

The real answer is not formal, but political. If Canada really wanted to join, and the member states and the European institutions wanted Canada to join, then a way would be found. The definition of “European state” could be fudged […]

What could […] evolve [as an alernative to Canada’s EU membership] is an entity that joins together the European Union with Canada and other non-members such as the UK, Norway and Iceland—and perhaps even Greenland—and that this entity could be placed on a formal footing. This would be outwith the EU treaties but would complement the EU bloc. And it would not then matter if the “Europe” label applied or not.