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Human Rights Issues In Canada Essay

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Since the fall of communism in Russia and the end of the Cold War, China started to rise as a significant power and to this day holds the title as the world’s fastest growing economy. With that advancement, China has become an influential global player in international politics and the economy; moreover, causing many countries, developed and developing, to raise a serious level of concern and interest to the rapid development of China. In particular, Canada is now back to establishing to be on better terms with China, after Harper’s playing hard to get approach, we must work even harder in becoming a part of China’s inner circle of trade partners. Moreover, Mr. Harper at first tried an activist approach, criticizing and accusing China of poor …show more content…

Realism would immensely disagree with Harper, as it believes that no power can penalize bad behaviour; moreover, being a state to implement moral behaviour is very risky as it can diminish a states ability to protect itself in global and military affairs. There will always be conflict and corruption in the world; there will always be human rights issues, what happens in another state should not leave negative impacts on your state and your states economy. Canada needs to put aside the good guy act and leave our protest banners at home for this one, we need a seat at the grown ups table by creating an indifferent attitude towards China’s social issues as our main objective with China is trade and trade alone. A states primary interest and goal should be self-preservation; therefore, Canada should be thinking about Canada and Canada’s economy only at the end of the day. Most Canadians would be concerned with the human rights issues happening in China however most Canadians would be more concerned over losing their jobs in this

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