🇨🇦 Ottawa lines up courtiers for Beijing

After years of Chinese interference alarms, hostage diplomacy lessons, and elite hand-wringing about foreign influence, Ottawa’s class is still eagerly lining up for the Beijing posting. That alone tells you everything. The state that cannot defend its own elections, borders, or civic cohesion still treats access to China as a prestige prize, as reported. The contradiction is almost art: stern press releases for the public, career jockeying behind closed doors for the mandarins.

This is the Trudeau-era foreign policy template in miniature: theatrical moralizing, zero strategic backbone, total dependence on global trade fantasies. Canada’s ruling caste never asks the obvious sovereign question: what arrangement actually serves Canadians. Instead, they obsess over managing decline politely, flattering hostile powers abroad while surrendering leverage at home. Mass immigration pressure, economic fragility, foreign interference, cultural incoherence, and the bureaucracy still thinks the real priority is who gets the fancy residence in Beijing. Empire clerk mentality dressed up as diplomacy.

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