Canada, China, and the Trump Doctrine

The confrontation between Canada and China set off by the detention of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou has escalated to near-crisis proportions.Canadian citizens have been detained, diplomats dismissed, ominous words uttered. Blame for the situation has been dispersed liberally. Canada stands condemned of indecisive or naive leadership, as well as unguarded diplomacy.

China, in turn, is accused of crude and intransigent responses that reveal its bullying nature and dangerous contempt for the rule of law.

Though these charges raise important questions, they fail to capture crucial wider geopolitical shifts and strategies that underpin the difficulties between the two countries. At the centre of the Canada–China confrontation stands the United States and the possible emergence of what might be called the Trump doctrine...

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