Increase ties to China

A major Canadian news source recently reported that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said her province wants to support President Donald Trump’s energy agenda and help the U.S. win the AI race with China..

Maybe our country's leaders should stop blindly supporting U.S. leaders and their country's constant characterization of China solely as a commercial threat and as the enemy of the “free world’s” “God-favoured” Western nations. (Yes - God apparently actively intervenes to protect Western leaders when they’re in peril.)

China is a leader in World Health Organization and environmental protection initiatives presently being undertaken worldwide. Trump, on the other hand, has frozen funds appropriated by Congress for clean energy projects. As well, his country has abandoned membership in WHO.

China's 18 modern megacities (cities with populations of more than 10 million people) are connected by high-speed “bullet” trains. There is no current rail service in the United States that meets the criteria for high-speed rail. Interestingly, Google reports last year one of every two cars sold in China was an EV. In the U.S. that figure was one in every dozen cars sold.

Which of the two societies should Canada be (talking) with closely, in regards to planning our technological development and issues such as climate change initiatives?

China, in several respects, is a much more progressive, peace-loving and unified society than the “former” democracy—the U.S. The latter superpower is an oligarchy (at least currently) made up of two groups of citizens who despise and are constantly at odds with one another. They do, however, appear to share a firm and longstanding belief that their country has a government structure that is “of, for and by the people,” when, in fact, it presently in large part is a government system of the wealthy class, for the wealthy class and by the wealthy class.

From what is often is reported in television people-on-the-street interviews, it appears the average American shares their government view that their country has the right to continue to dominate the world economically, culturally and militarily, as has been the case since the Second World War.

It is time for our country to do some serious rethinking of our future relationship with China and with our southern neighbour?

Without question, our country is at a historic crossroads. In regard to negotiations with our former “friend,” the U.S., elbows up Canada.

Gordon Mallett