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As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s fresh young Team Canada recruits go about the business of entrenching the decrepit Liberal party establishment’s mishmash of cynical and starry-eyed obsequies to Beijing as the new government’s signature foreign policy and international trade strategy, the least the rest of us should expect is that we not be taken for fools and treated like idiots.

It’s all so comical, and the propaganda attending to the initiative has been so transparently lame, that it almost isn’t worth getting worked up about. Except for certain details. The proposition of a full-blown free trade deal with the Beijing regime wasn’t something Trudeau let us in on during the recent election campaign, for instance. But that would appear to be the end game now.

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There’s also the unseemly business of Beijing’s cyberhacking of Canadian government agencies, its subversion of international institutions, its rapidly escalating military belligerence in the South China Sea and its vandalism of global currency markets. All these indecencies have been undertaken with relish by Xi Jinping, the most tyrannical and reactionary Chinese dictator since Mao Zedong.