To the editor,
The Two Michaels’ ordeal has made clearer to me that before China might be successfully compelled to do anything it doesn’t want to, the compelling source must at least possess a consumer base, thus trade import/export bargaining chip, compatible with China’s nearly 1.5 billion consumers.
Even then, China’s edge may be its restrictive control over its own business sector market. In Canada’s case, with 38 million consumers, we’re no match.
Not alone, anyway.
Perhaps some securely-allied nations, including Canada, combining their resources could go without the usual China trade/investment tether they’d prefer to sever, instead trading necessary goods and services between themselves and other interested non-allied, non-China-bound nation economies.
Then, again, maybe such an alliance has already been covertly discussed but rejected due to Chinese government strategists knowing how to “divide and conquer” potential alliance nations by using door-wedge economic and political leverage custom-made for each nation.
Or could it be that every country typically placing its own economic and big business bottom-line interests foremost may always be its, and therefore collectively our, Achilles’ heel to be exploited by huge-market nations like China?
Regardless, China so far seems to have handled the West.
Frank Sterle Jr.,
White Rock, B.C.
newsroom@surgeryitaly.com
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