Report highlights scale of China’s ‘coercive’ diplomacy

Report Highlights China’s ‘coercive’ diplomacy

Canada is China’s second-biggest target for coercive diplomacy, according to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

The Canberra-based defence and strategic policy think tank has just published a report that closely traces how China’s Communist dictatorship shamelessly uses bullying to try to achieve political and economic advantage and support its expansionist plans.

Nothing new there.

This report tracks the CCP’s use of coercive diplomacy over the past 10 years, recording 152 cases of coercive diplomacy affecting 27 countries as well as the European Union.

Only 152 cases?  Those are just the one’s classified as “coercive diplomacy”.  One can only guess at how many “other” things they also did during that time.

The CCP’s coercive tactics can include economic measures (such as trade sanctions, investment restrictions, tourism bans and popular boycotts) and non-economic measures (such as arbitrary detention, restrictions on official travel and state-issued threats). These efforts seek to punish undesired behaviour and focus on issues including securing territorial claims, deploying Huawei’s 5G technology, suppressing minorities in Xinjiang, blocking the reception of the Dalai Lama and obscuring the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

As Canadians have been shocked to discover over the past two years, Beijing now almost routinely kidnaps foreign nationals to further national aims and cuts off imports such as pork, beef or canola for often contrived reasons such as unproven risks to public health.

Now the media will normally not say a bad word of their marxist masters, instead deflecting any and all at Russia (in a classical misdirection).

I, when I personally can, avoid buying anything coming from/supporting the ccp.  If it is made in china, put it back on the shelf.

Support your local jobs, manufacturers as much as you can.  Next best is to get the items from countries the support freedom.