Yeah, that imperialists and their branches will intervene in your local elections to their benefit.

But the protests are sure gonna be fun!

Queue the “but what can Canada realistically do?” crowd.

LOL “everyone that disagrees with me is a tankie!”. Classic

Not just for providing support to Israeli prisons, but was literally their server drive for all illegal surveillance of Palestinians for many years until word got out.

Very true, but BDS has different angles - consumer, b2b, academic, etc…

Boycotts are very good when their impact is measurable. Which is why BDS has targeted consumer boycotts and different campaign targets at different times. Seeing a huge drop in Xbox users at the start of a campaign launch is a powerful sign to the boycotted company and to the BDS community.

B2B (like in this case) is also important because consumers would be able to direct their purchases to other avenues that are in line with BDS (and also the headlines it gets). So measurable stream of money flowing from Xbox to another platform.

It’s also why BDS says that everyone is free to do blanket boycotts, but targeted boycotting helps with their measurable effectiveness. But BDS is realistic.

Like you said about AWS; some things just are hard to boycott, but the intention is to turn so many away from Israel that eventually the bigger things will be pressured to change as well.

It is useless to pick a few sentences out of reports and then re-interpret them to make them fit for your desired narrative.

It’s the same sentence you quoted and I added some explainers because apparently it’s necessary.

If you could tell me, in your own words, why the news that you originally shared is important and why we should pay attention, then I’ll concede. But I doubt you can because racism isn’t logical, which is why you’re having a hard time coming up with any argument.

I only hope you take a good hard look in the mirror and ask yourself some tough questions.

They have to tow the state media line. Jordan is under monarch rule after all.

Would he say the same about Palestinians?

Haha look, it’s easy to do a quick Google search about “times that China sold US debt”, but you’re still proving my point because you’re out of your depth and don’t understand what you’re sharing.

From your own quote (with my emphasis):

Officials [from the National Financial Regulatory Administration which is a national advisory body to protect consumers] urged banks (private banks) to limit purchases of U.S. government bonds and instructed those (private individuals) with high exposure to pare down positions, though the advisory does not apply to state holdings (so not Chinese Government holdings), Bloomberg reported.

Yes, anyone can buy bonds. Private enterprises, individuals, governments. You’ve lumped them all in together because “China”, while the article you’ve posted talks about the Chinese government (that’s pretty racist if you didn’t know).

Here is a Canadian financial institution providing a similar advisory about US bonds trustworthiness. This is something that is happening globally btw - Denmark pensions, amongst others in EU, sold their US bonds (and these are actual government entities).

https://www.cibc.com/en/gam/insights/markets-and-economy/us-canadian-bond-markets.html

Then you use, by your own admission, a propaganda outlet that mentions the following:

China cut its holdings of US Treasuries to an 18-year low in July, as overall holdings by foreign countries fell for a second consecutive month amid deepening worries over the sustainability of American government debt.

Now a few things here

1. you’re contradicting yourself. The article you originally posted says that quite the opposite is happening in relation to what China says (that China is actually buying bonds, but with a different address), but now you’re referencing a “propaganda outlet” that China has been selling bonds. So what is it?

2. let’s go with if China is selling the bonds - yes, selling bonds off slowly over several years (maintaining bond prices) is a very big difference to dumping (making prices plummet). So not sure what you’re trying to disprove with sharing that.

Here is my original premise for reference:

Not once has China dumped US debt as a retaliatory measure, or even threatened to do so, because that would negatively effect the value of those holdings.

Good on the BC Greens holding the BCNDP to account. You have the fed NDPs, Ontario NDPs, and the Toronto mayor all talking about local COOP groceries, while BC has an NDP government and aren’t.

While the port unions do have the power to strike and not accept fuel, scab law might succeed here since fuel is essential. I also don’t think that the strike would benefit them unless they themselves and the rest of the population are willing to take a hit on fuel costs. It’ll be a feeding frenzy of rightwing rhetoric and liberal pearl clutching too.

For sure and I felt bad for the speaker who had to step down. But definitely not dead.

Was he 13 in 2010 when he said those were the happiest days of his life on a SS Nazi forum?!? Lol

China does decouple from the US in many ways (technology, military, and trade) but not from its debt purchasing and it’s not a new or secret thing (though this article has a lot of speculation). Not once has China dumped US debt as a retaliatory measure, or even threatened to do so, because that would negatively effect the value of those holdings.

The current majority of China’s purchases of US debt is through Belgium at an amount of ~460 billion which far exceeds Belgium’s economy. None of this purchased debt is attributed to Belgium’s (or Canada’s) holdings and doesn’t reflect on the middle state.

What this could in fact mean is that China is 1) trusting that Canada is expanding it’s economy and willing to put money in it’s investment market (not just in Belgium) and therefore strengthening Canada’s economic standing by extension 2) just looking to diversify where it has holdings, or just easier to make jurisdictional trades, 3) is warming up to more trade with Canada and willing to park money in the country to increase partnership.

But of course this is Scotty posting, a notorious Sinophobe, who wouldn’t understand what any of what their posts even mean. Just sees “China + action” and equates it with bad.

Have you seen the internal comms between Zuck and his CMO about the 2016 US elections and Cambridge Analytica? They explicitly said that the Reps took their marketing advice while the Dems didn’t and essentially confirmed that it’s part of their “portfolio” that they’re building to flip elections.

I’m sure that the US gov (and many others) have paid attention since then.

Not sure what people have against uncovering history and how it plays into the current.

Some people are really not very different than Americans in their thought-ending processes or how it relates to policies today (“communist propaganda”, “who cares”, “its Canada’s past”).

The resettled Nazis could still be alive and could still be spouting hateful or pro-Nazi rhetoric, as we saw 2 years ago with Yaroslav Hunka.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaroslav_Hunka_scandal

Between 2010 and 2011, Hunka contributed to The Combatant News, a blog by an association of SS Galizien veterans, where he described his service in the SS as “the happiest two years of my life”.

The Deschenes Commission recommended changes to criminal and citizenship law to allow Canada to prosecute war criminals, which Canada did and which is immensely relevant today considering how many Israeli-Canadians are taking part in the Palestinian genocide.

However, even though Canada tried to prosecute Nazi war criminals, they would end up acquitting or dropping charges. In 1994, after several similar cases in which charges had been dropped, Canada said it would no longer prosecute Nazi war criminals.

The second part of the final report, which concerns allegations against specific individuals, and contains an appendix listing 240 individuals suspected of war crimes, has never been made public

With Canada claiming to fight antisemitism, while at the same time giving historically proud antisemites a pass, it’s worth knowing the history, how that ties into today’s policies, and what we should advocate for.

Like the one applauded in parliament 2 years ago?

nudge

I’m glad for the stance and the public statement - And not to be a negative Nancy - But what actions are all the governments going to take to protect the ICC? Flashy statements are nice, but if they’re not backed up by action then it’s not effective.

A Canadian ICC judge, Kimberly Prost, has been sanction for ~2 years now by the US, and Canada could have applied a specific administrative law to shield her from the sanctions, but hasn’t.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/kimberly-prost-ottawa-9.7267095

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb/18/international-criminal-court-icc-judges-trump-sanctions