Nah, de-risking China, eh?

you are ok with UAE

This is a wrong inference. Just read my comment.

What do you understand by capitalism? And which system would be better to allow values in your view?

International Hotel Giants Are Profiting Despite Genocide in Xinjiang - (June 2025) ----[Archived link]

In addition to the 115 hotels that are currently operational in Xinjiang, we identified another 74 in various stages of planning and construction from international hotel giants—Accor, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, Marriott, Minor Hotels, and Wyndham. Marriott will open at least 13 hotels located in Xinjiang in 2026, including a Ritz-Carlton in Urumqi. IHG will open nine hotels in the region in 2025 and another seven in 2026, including InterContinentals in Urumqi, Kashgar, and Ghulja. (InterContinental is IHG’s flagship luxury brand.)

Moreover, we documented a long list of rights abuses connected to hotels in Xinjiang, including forced labor, presence on territories controlled by an entity under targeted human rights sanctions, financial and management links to Chinese state-owned enterprises, and hotels hosting Chinese state propaganda events. Hilton even opened a hotel on the site of the Duling Mosque in central Khotan, which local authorities demolished in 2018. None of the seven hotel chains responded to our repeated requests for comment.

Another report reads:

State-backed tourism booms in China’s troubled Xinjiang - (2023)

… off the main tourist trail, in the mostly Uyghur town of Yengisar, AFP reporters saw a sign in a cemetery prohibiting Islamic “religious activities” such as kneeling, prostrating, praying with palms facing upwards and reciting scripture. The same sign permitted certain offerings for the Qingming Festival, typically observed by Han but not Uyghurs.

Around a dozen mosques in other towns and villages around Kashgar were found locked and rundown.

Some appeared to have had minarets and other Islamic markings removed, and many bore the same government slogan: “Love the country, love the party”. … Three other community mosques within a few hundred metres were shuttered when AFP visited, with a store advertising adult products operating a stone’s throw from one of them.

… “The destruction of religious sites… is part of a larger set of policies that are transforming the landscape and disconnecting Uyghur culture from the geography” of Xinjiang, Thum [said]. The sharpest reminders of Beijing’s policies still lurk on Kashgar’s periphery, which houses many of the alleged internment camps.

While some appear to have been converted or abandoned, others look to still be operating – and provoke official unease when exposed.

This is the real reason imho why some communities here attack the Canada-UAE collaboration: because part of the collaboration will decisively reduce China’s dominance in the rare earths supply chains.

Canada must undoubtedly review its weapons delivery to the UAE and, of ocurse, stop delivery if human rights are violated. The same applies to China, and there is ample evidence of Chinese supply chains - in rare earths and other sector - being driven by forced labour and environmental destruction. However, critique on China remains largely silent in these communities.

Thanks, corrected the initial comment for clarity.

Oh, I haven’t looked into this fund in detail of late, but this was known already for years (and some things definitely have changed).

I just mean we shouldn’t post stories that old without adding new information. For example, reports on Canada’s parliament that has declared China’s treatment of Uighurs ‘genocide’ and things like, as this is known, although the situation in Xinjiang hasn’t changed unfortunately.

But this is just my opinion. Maybe good to know that I am mistaken.

This story is more than 8 years old.

Whether these are journalistic articles or not, I would expect to have sources and relevant information on how they come to their conclusions. There are no sources cited in the article.

Which housing bubble to they refer to, if there is one? How big is it? What could be done to avoid a burst? - Things like that out of journalistic investigation.

If they criticize it is all bad, they should at least have an idea why it’s bad and what would be better.

You should probably rewrite this though, second sentence can read like youre saying the UAE – infamously dependent on slave labour – upholds human rights in its trade agreements.

What I mean is that Canada should uphold human rights not only with its trade with the UAE but also with other countries like China. So the statement was not a reference to the UAE trade policy.

I don’t know these people, they are certainly good guys with good intentions. But the site is just critical of the government - which is fine, of course, there is nothing wrong with it - but there is barely research in all the reports, no alternative models and options are shown, what they should do better, and how. It feels if you want a report critical of Canada, you can go there, and there is nothing else.

Human rights must be an integral, non-negotiable part in any trade agreement imho. This is the case here with the Canada-UAE agreement but also in agreements with all other current and potential partner countries. At the moment Mr. Carney speaks with a lot of governments, in particular with China’s that is not exactly famous for respecting the rule of law.

[Edit for clarity.]

This is a very weak story in my opinion. It’s about a housing bubble, affordability, prices, … but the entire story doesn’t cite a single source, not a single number, no verifiable data whatsoever. There is no serious research.

Unfortunately it is the media outlet. The entire ‘Canada Dimension’ site looks like a dumping ground of anti-Canadian propaganda with sensationalist headlines aimed at making the country look bad.

Chinese diplomats have used the global climate negotiations to oppose trade barriers that threaten the country’s enormous exports of the solar, wind and battery technology [and] declined to step forward with an investment in a flagship rainforest conservation fund, limiting Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s prospects of raising an initially planned $25 billion.

Crucially, China — still the largest coal-consuming nation — has also skirted Lula’s attempts to broker a clearer road map for the world to transition away from fossil fuels. In the final hours of negotiations on Friday, a draft deal put forward by Brazil excluded reference to winding down fossil fuels, prompting anger from some 80 nations who had insisted on such language.

“We are not seeing very convincing signals that China is stepping up,” on traditional climate leadership, said Yao Zhe, a Beijing-based global policy advisor at Greenpeace East Asia, and who is attending the Belém talks.

It seems China has indeed a different agenda than climate change.

And who are you that someone should think foreign policy should be based on your opinion? Are you a geopolitical expert? Or do you spread just propaganda that is of zero substance?

As an addition, there is a comment published by thehub .ca. I don’t completely with everything, but it has many good points regarding China:

China is not the answer for Canadian prosperity – (Archived link)

… Strengthening ties with like-minded partners—through our trade agreements with the European Union, South Korea, or through the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership—builds resilience without compromising our principles. True diversification extends our reach while reinforcing our values, not undermining them.

[There are] profound obstacles to “restoring relations” with China. They are not mere irritants, but deep incompatibilities between Canada’s democratic values and Beijing’s authoritarian conduct. Since joining the World Trade Organization in 2001, China has gamed the rules of global commerce by propping up state-owned enterprises, dumping subsidized products, and weaponizing non-tariff barriers against its critics. Its human-rights record at home and abroad is appalling. Domestically, the persecution of Uyghurs, Tibetans, Falun Gong practitioners, and underground Christians; the crushing of Hong Kong’s freedoms must not be ignored.

Here in Canada, the election interference and the intimidation of Chinese-Canadians through fake police stations should not be overlooked. Not to mention the imprisonment of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor for 1,019 days on fabricated espionage charges. To gloss over these realities is to erode the moral foundation of our foreign policy …

Emphasis mine.

I was quite sure that ‘China defenders’ would respond in a way to discredit the source, the OP, whatever they think would help.

This is an interview with the chief executive at the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturer’s Association. He has said the same elsewhere. It has nothing to do with the topic.

China is not far right? You are concerned over ‘fascists’ like Orban (do some research over his ties to China) but you’d see China as a current option?

This doesn’t add up. As I said, we should improve our democracies. China is definitely not among the options.

unfortunately, many other democracies are in the process of electing far-right whackadoos and mini-trumps. we don’t have an abundance of choices.

You are concerned about the “far-right whackadoos and mini-trumps” but are fine with collaborating with China over an alleged lack of choice?

That’s not the right way. We should improve democracies rather than collaborating with just another country that has turned to fascist rule

Addition:

Your claim that “China is not actively threatening us” is not true. It may not be that obvious, but the threat is here.

CSIS director warns that China and Russia continue to target Canada