Comments by "Roger Dodger" (@rogerdodger8415) on "Financial Times"
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You're nuts! The Chinese are CONTINUALLY using their weight to influence votes at the UN, and meddle in other governments around the world! The Russians and Chinese will try desperately to use the pipeline as a weapon, as R has done MANY TIMES in the past. The first time, Russia angers China, the gas will be cut off. You see it now with American soybeans! China is angry at Canada right now. Do you think they're sitting back doing nothing? China suspended its bilateral trade deal with Norway and restricted imports of Norwegian salmon when the Nobel peace prize was awarded to political prisoner Liu Xiaobo in 2010. Britain and other countries were retaliated against over meetings with the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, considered a dangerous separatist by Beijing, and in 2014, a Canadian couple was detained in northeastern China and charged with espionage following Canada’s arrest of a man accused of stealing U.S. aviation secrets for China.
Analysts say they have little doubt Kovrig and Spavor’s cases are related to Meng’s, and the handing down of tougher sentences on appeal is rare enough to arouse suspicion.
“This really hurts China” and its efforts to promote its influence around the world, said David Zweig, a Canadian who directs the Center on China’s Transnational Relations at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
“Xi Jinping has been talking so much about promoting soft power … I certainly think that it hurts China’s soft power and its argument that it supports the rule of law,” Zweig said.
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