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This is either concern trolling or depressing lack of confidence.
It's fine if you accept your own subjugation, but it's not a healthy human condition. Maybe your country shouldn't exist as a nation if it's non-viable on its own, and you should apply to become a state. Would be more dignified.
Canada likely is viable. Resisting Chinese influence is significantly easier than American one – no shared language, no blood ties, no border, for starters. As can be seen, even Russia, which is constantly mocked as «Chinese resource colony», in fact is anything but and conducts whatever loony policy it wants. Canadian goal, in any case, is not «become economically reliant on China instead of being economically reliant on the USA» but to increase the share of non-US trade, principally with China, import Chinese industrial technology, become more competitive in the world that's coming, and build military deterrence and alliances. The alternative is to let the US fully dismantle your economy, complete its demoralization campaign, and then absorb your territory.
If you cannot even conceive of a nation executing this and only offer false dichotomies between patrons, then I repeat, again, you don't have what it takes to have a nation.
Congratulations on being absorbed like Tibet, which is now "it was always Chinese territory and has always been Chinese, apart from the time the barbarian tribes over-ran things, but then we fixed it again". The Chinese Province of Canada will excellently be part of cultural showpieces of ethnic minorities folk dance for tourism trade!
Brother/sister/sibling in Christ, it's precisely because we're a small nation with a dominant larger neighbour that I know about being eaten culturally and economically. Yes, looking for support from a larger ally (as we have done with the EU) is very good for survival, but that only works because we can cobble together common interests and heritage with the EU. If we ran off to the Chinese, I'd expect us to be not even a morsel on their plate.
Really now? Canada, being absorbed like Tibet, by China? Because of trade? Even while the Secretary of the Treasury of the US openly wants to take Alberta?
That's the threat model?
This gibberish gets +10?
Can you clarify something, so I'm not making assumptions that are incorrect?
In one of your comments, you said you are non-Western. What do you mean by that?
(1) I'm a Slav, baby, we're not you effete Westerners (2) I'm not European (3) I'm Indian/Chinese/Martian
I'm a Russian. It's not about being effete or not. While Russia is a «European» country in most ways that matter taxonomically, it's obviously not part of the Western cultural and political space.
Now what does this have to do with the profound absurdity of your threat model?
Okay, so the next time you write in the persona of "I'm a non-white non-Westerner and this is why China is so groovy ooh do you think Xi-laoshi will be my boyfriend?" I'll know how seriously to take you.
What are you talking about?
It may just be that I'm extremely confused, but Dase there seemed to be writing as if they were Indian once, or at least doing down the West in general and saying India was better in some respects because.
So I wasn't sure if they were Indian or what. Now it's been clarified. I'm still not entirely sure why they're so gung-ho for China but maybe it's more "any stick will do to beat the West" instead of figuring out "if China really does become the sole global superpower, how will that affect Russia?"
Because it's all well and good imagining that Soviet-Chinese relationships are long standing ties of mutual affection, but Russia isn't Soviet anymore and China has its own version of Communism. And its own interests. If it displaces the USA, does anyone really imagine it will be happy to let Putin's Russia be a significant rival or threat?
Even if at one point he said things are better there in some respects, that comes with a pretty big caveat. I have no idea where you're getting the Indian bit from, he's been Russia-poasting for years, until he got disillusioned because of the war with Ukraine.
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