So, as things have turned out, the democracies declaring their intention to boycott February’s Winter Games in Beijing had grown numerous enough by Wednesday for Justin Trudeau’s government to include itself by hiding in the crowd and hoping Beijing wouldn’t particularly notice. That’s what the Trudeau government usually does whenever it becomes unavoidable for Canada to adopt some multilateral standpoint that might upset the Chinese Communist Party. Read More
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