[shard972]

> None of this 'How China Works' is new to anyone. Canada should have considered it when deciding to get involved.

Maybe on HN, but is this really old news to all of our governments? I was watching CBC last night on all the issues the Canadian government is now running into with their 5g rollout since they were one of the few western countries who decided to deal with china.

Either they didn't know what china was, or they have better information on china then we do.

> And our president respecting rule of law or being better than Xi on any measure except successful criminal behavior is a real tough sell.

Is this a troll? Did we see trump pass a law unlocking the term limit for president? Because Xi did that, that's why hes even still in office.

[kw71]

Nobody sane ever expected China to be a 'rule of law' country in the Western sense though. I don't know enough about Chinese law to judge whether changing a law should have been allowed. But that law is changed, by whatever mechanism, and that is a bit different to acting in contravention of a law.