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applegrove

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2. I just caught the part where he said "would you rather form a union with China
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 08:56 PM
Jun 2020

Last edited Tue Jun 30, 2020, 10:44 PM - Edit history (1)

and see how that goes?"not verbatim. He was adolescently defensive. I'll try to find it online. May take a while. Arsenault was talking about the Meng Wanzhou and the Huawei affair where Trump asked Canada to extradite her and canada is doing that. Then China kidnapped two Canadians in China and have had them in jail for more than 500 days:

(Background) https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5597721

(Later) Arsenault asks why should canada put its trust and trade in an unreliable Trump and there is back and forth. Bolton says "if you think it mam you are free to go and deal with the vagaries of China".

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