Canada must continue to engage with China despite its ongoing concerns about the country’s human rights record at home — and new evidence of its efforts to coerce dissidents living abroad to return.
That’s the message from two Canadians with extensive experience working inside China. They spoke to CBC’s The House in an interview airing Saturday about the challenge of balancing the need for security with economic interests when dealing with a superpower that doesn’t share Canada’s democratic values.
“I think that as Canadians, we need to fight for what we think is right, but also fight for our own position in things,”
