As Trump wages economic war to break Canada, let’s go for Canadian energy security and independence. Strategic petroleum reserves must be part of it. The Iran war shows how risky reliance on oil is. As the world shifts off fossil fuels, the challenge is to build Canadian energy self-reliance around affordable domestic renewables.
There is actually zero evidence that China poses any threats to other states. It hasn’t been at war since the 70s, it doesn’t engage in regime change operations, coups, invasions, and occupations. Pretty much all the countries that chose to trade with China have benefited from that significantly. That’s the real world.
The only ample evidence we have is that propagandists in the west are really good at manipulating opinions of people who are unable to engage their critical faculties.
It is also important to note the very real, and well documented, forced labour in Canadian supply chains.
The threat it faces is if it gets too big, then they will offer an alternative to USD for trading global assets. Which prevents the US from funding its massive social programs and military, or exporting its inflation.
exactly
What sources regarding China do you read?
I read mainstream western sources of course.
Oh, what a carefully selected sample.
The vast majority of these sources provide a very critical picture of China, so if you really read these ‘mainstream Western sources of course’ you must have a very critical picture of China. It doesn’t reflect your propaganda-like posts and comments in this and your alt accounts. But at least here in this thread you have so far refrained from personal insults.
As most of your linked articles refer to Chinese investments in the Global South, there is a very good study from 2025 by the Economic Policy Institute in Kiel, Germany, about that.
Interesting investigation that provides new insights how exactly China takes leverage over emerging economies at Beijing’s benefit and Beijing’s benefit alone.
Addition: And, of course, Canada should not buy renewable tech, EVs, and other tech from China. The price of letting others control you energy and you tech is too high. What is true for the U.S. is also true for China. Canada should definitely seek collaboration with democratic states rather than dictatorships.
Your cherry picked article doesn’t contradict a single thing I said. And, of course, Canada should and will buy EVs and renewable tech from China because clearly even people running Canada aren’t complete imbeciles. Enjoy doing a lot of seething and coping in your future. Life is gonna get real hard for people like you going forward.
Also, might want to learn what a dictatorship is before throwing big words like that around kiddo. Pretty sure people actually living in China understand their system better than some angry racist from Canada.
So letting others control your energy is bad unless it’s controlled by China? That’s apparently bad faith posts and comments, @yogthos@lemmygrad.ml
I guess you have reading comprehension problems, what I actually said was:
Seems like @Sepia@mander.xyz is just here to troll and make bad faith posts
Reading comprehension is an issue, just read my comment above. Here again:
As one report, It’s Time to Treat China’s Connected Energy Systems As a National Security Risk, says,
There is ample evidence that China poses a threat to other states’ security, as well as many examples that China uses leverage for economic and political coercion.
What part of bootstrapping are you struggling with here? We can use Chinese tech that exists today, that we failed to develop domestically, and then build our own technology going forward. I will reiterate again, that there is zero evidence for China posing any threat. This is just FUD that you’re spreading here. Every country uses economic leverage, this isn’t exclusive to China. Unless you’re proposing that Canada becomes a hermit kingdom, then it will have to deal with other countries protecting their own interests. Try to put a bit more work into your trolling to make it a bit less obvious.
Also, hilarious you’d link to a report from RAND of all places to base your fear mongering on. A report from a country that’s literally threatening to annex Canada and sees China as its main rival couldn’t possibly have any biases in it. The US would have absolutely no interest in keeping Canada dependent on fossil fuels and prevent it from actually implementing clean energy solutions. And luckily for them they have plenty of useful idiots in Canada to carry water.