The Chinese government has now delivered what the kids today would call a “sick burn” against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland.
The words uttered on Wednesday by China’s foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang come after Trudeau and Freeland have insisted that U.S. President Donald Trump has backed up Canada over the issue of the two detained Canadians and also that they’ve rallied other countries to their side in the ongoing spat with Beijing and have people in their corner.
Not so fast, says China.
“We hope that the Canadian side will not be too naive,” said Geng Shuang. “First, Canada shouldn’t naively think that gathering so-called allies to put pressure on China will work. Second, the Canadian side should not naively believe that its so-called allies can really make concrete efforts for Canada’s interests. What they are doing at most is lip service, because after all it is a matter between China and Canada.”
This is China laughing in our faces — telling us that we don’t have as many friends as we think and that even when our “so-called allies” do step forward to lobby our cause, they’re only doing it half-heartedly.
You can even picture Trump getting to the end of a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and saying, after he’s already stood up to leave, something like: “Oh right, I almost forgot. So Justin from Canada wanted me to bring this up…”
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See Also:
(1) On China, Trudeau is naive
(2) Trudeau is campaigning for re-election on your dime
(3) Canadians are voting Scheer with their wallets
