Canada holds first defense talks with China in more than 8 years

The trouble is that the U.S. is threatening annexation and waging trade war on the West while pulling its military assets (e.g. All carriers) out of Asia with no diplomatic successes to keep the area stable. There's a power vacuum around Taiwan now. Middle powers have to step in, and this is an example of that.

This is not Canada siding with China. It's a middle power engaging with China to find common ground before China decides that power vacuum is too juicy to resist. Canada has a border on the Pacific too, after all.

The Canadians who think this or more is a good idea have lost their minds.

Forget that China, an authoritarian regime that is doing things like routinely stealing secrets from western countries [1] and is focused on destroying European economies ability to manufacture goods, it is a practically stupid thing to do because holding talks with China while the US, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and more as the article points out are actively training (obviously all mentioned parties and more conduct additional training annually) to potentially fight a war with China to defend another democracy looks incredibly bad.

Canada stands with China against the US, Australia, Korea, Japan, New Zealand [2], and the Philippines? Yikes!

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-07/chinese-c...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/world/oceania/new-zealand-military-china...