From Wheat to Leverage: How the CCP Exploits Canada’s Regional Fault Lines

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From Wheat to Leverage: How the CCP Exploits Canada’s Regional Fault Lines
Experts say China exploits regional economies, such as in the agricultural sector, to advance its interests by sowing divisions and creating political pressure. Tyler Olson/Shutterstock
By Omid Ghoreishi
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News Analysis
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s effort to forge diplomatic ties with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1970 proved highly consequential, opening the floodgates for other Western Bloc nations to follow suit and bringing the regime out of isolation. But another move made by Canada years earlier has continued to entangle its relationship with the communist regime.
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