China’s defence chief meets with Tory ministers in secretive trip to Canada amid rising tensions over the use of chemical weapons in Syria.

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   (Hiram’s note: It is no coincidence that after this secret meeting, the Canadian government of Harper announced that it would not take part in any military strikes on Syria. This after being one of the most vocal ones calling for a strike prior to this secret meeting.

  Could it be that China’s top military man conveyed that America is on her last leg and that she should not take a trip on a sinking ship? Also ,could be it China threatened economic retaliation, being that it has a huge investment portfolio in Canada?

  That being said, don’t forget that Sending their top Military man instead of top politicians lends to the fact that China may have had to remind Canada that in the event of NATO strikes under US command, this would eventually bring Russia into the fray, and being a leading member of The Shanghi Co-operation Organization, would thus force China into this matter because these two nations are bound by mutual defense pacts.

    Canada probably realized that it has no dog in the hunt and is trying to back out.)

  China’s defence chief meets with Tory ministers in secretive trip to Canada

OTTAWA — China’s defence minister made an unheralded stop in Canada last week, meeting with two Harper government ministers amid rising tensions over the use of chemical weapons in Syria.

Gen. Chang Wanquan had face-to-face discussions with Defence Minister Rob Nicholson and Foreign Affairs John Baird last Thursday, says Western defence sources and Chinese media reports.

  Source: http://news.nationalpost.com

There was even a side trip to Kingston, Ont., where Chang visited the Royal Military College and the Canadian Army staff college before returning to Beijing.

Chang’s visit, unlike those of ministers of other high-profile nations, was kept off-the-radar by the Harper government, which neither issued a statement nor revealed that the two nations have apparently agreed to enhance military ties.

 

Publications in China say a deal was signed to promote high-level military exchanges and to establish a mechanism whereby the two countries can talk defence matters directly with one another.

A spokeswoman for Nicholson, Genevieve Breton, confirmed the meeting took place and described the agreement as a “non-binding” co-operation plan that formalizes a process already in place.

Although not raised with Nicholson, the question of whether Syria came up in Chang’s other discussions remains a mystery.

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