🇨🇦 CBC holds up Lithuania as trade diversification model while Ottawa cozies back up to Beijing

Lithuania cut China off entirely after 2021 coercion over Taiwan, severed Russian energy dependence, and grew GDP by 2.9% last year—nearly double the EU average and well above Canada's anemic 1.7%. They spend 4% of GDP on defence, diversified to two dozen trade partners, and built actual economic resilience. Meanwhile Carney's Canada has warmed relations with the same Beijing regime that spent years targeting our canola farmers, detaining our citizens, and running interference ops on our soil.

The article even admits Lithuania is the textbook case for resisting authoritarian economic warfare. So naturally, Canada learns nothing. We talk diversification while re-engaging the CCP as a hedge against Trump. Lithuania chose sovereignty and grew. We chose managed decline and the status of geopolitical doormat.

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