Canada-China Relations committee  Given the vast need, I think the amount that Canada has contributed and that the U.S. has contributed is just a starting point. From something I read the other day, I'm not sure that any vaccines have even made it to Haiti. We have an obligation to the world for moral reasons, bu

Canada-China Relations committee  That's a difficult dynamic, I think, that your diplomats are having to deal with. I'm aware of the reports about the Halifax International Security Forum and what was happening there with the award for Taiwan. I don't think we can put aside our concerns about rule of law and fund

Canada-China Relations committee  That's okay. One more thing is that I would first express my appreciation to all of you for being interested in what we're doing. I presume that you know that there are interparliamentary working groups in Europe, for example. We're not the only places that are trying to figure

Canada-China Relations committee  Thanks very much. I am going to drop off. Thank you.

Canada-China Relations committee  Yes.

Canada-China Relations committee  Again, when China got accession to the WTO, some of us had a number of concerns about whether the WTO was going to change China's practices or China was going to change the WTO. The WTO is just, I think.... I do not advocate that we get rid of it, but I think there need to be s

Canada-China Relations committee  There are always some people. Interestingly, this commission was considered outliers and quite hawkish when we were started, and we're not considered that anymore, because the whole issue has changed.

Canada-China Relations committee  I just want to say that we—

Canada-China Relations committee  Yes. First, the Chinese government has pulled back an IPO, of course, and they now most recently look like they are trying to push out Jack Ma completely from what he is doing. The reason this is important is that Alibaba and Ant have always been held up as private companies, rig

Canada-China Relations committee  I don't want to leave the impression that I don't agree that democracies need to get together. I think they do, because, again, I think our own united front.... You know, our values stand for something and they stand for something around the world, and I think that we diminish th

Canada-China Relations committee  No, I'm not suggesting a cultural cold war. I think what I'm trying to do is to be realistic about the fact that even within western liberal democracies there are going to be some differing interests in the relationship with China. We have to figure out a way to accommodate those

Canada-China Relations committee  You know, of course, that when you take on the moneyed interests, you're taking on big giants who don't want anybody to get in the way of what they are doing—again, sort of the Ray Dalio view of the world. I'm just trying to think of the number of years that we at the commissio

Canada-China Relations committee  I think some of it is educating, again. On this issue of U.S. investment in China, some of it is the major investment banks. They're going to figure out a way to make money, no matter what. When you look at things, you see that we haven't mentioned the military-civil fusion that

Canada-China Relations committee  Again, that's another excellent question. I think that the Confucius Institutes play a role that the Goethe-Institut or the Alliance française do not. I think they are serving as a tool on campuses, both to control the Chinese students who are there and to spread the Chinese worl

Canada-China Relations committee  The Chinese government will use all of the tools that it has at its disposal to accomplish what it wants to accomplish. In terms of the AIIB, it's incumbent on the other parties participating in the AIIB to make sure that contracts that are going out are not all being taken by Ch