Pondering: Respectfully, I don't think there's any point in discussing this further with you.
My problem is that at a certain point, it's impossible to tell whether Pondering is still convinced of what she is saying, or if she is just doubling down and amassing further evidence and arguments for their own sake.
What really got me was this gratuitous comment upthread to WWWTT:
I think it's bizarre that you think helping China push Earth's climate past the point of no return on climate change is on any level "fair" or a positive thing for the people of China. Have you seen the smog they deal with?
She apparently hasn't got the memo that China is actually dealing with the environment, in a way that Canada is not:
Four Years After Declaring War on Pollution, China Is Winning
I thought any half-way informed observer knew about this gigantic campaign that China has been waging. Oh, the article (PLEASE read it) is by Michael Greenstone, who runs the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago and is the Milton Friedman professor of economics at the university. Maybe he's a covert Chinese plant?
Oh, and then she discovered that China invaded Vietnam in 1979. Well there you go - another of her (reverse) predictions validated!
At a certain point, when someone is plugging their ears and shouting, the time for discussion is over - at least on that level, on those issues, in that context.
Canada's detention of Meng has nothing to do with the "rule of law". It's a dirty deal between Canada and the U.S., not signed by any other country. And Canada had vast discretion to simply get around that action without even violating the dirty deal. But sucking up to the U.S. and demonizing China was more convenient at the time. It will prove to be as brilliant a move as trying to stop the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin. Not.
