Canada’s Foreign Minister Melanie Joly is already known to be biased regarding the Israeli war on Hamas. In December, she stated that “Canada eventually will support an ‘accountability system’ to investigate Israel’s military conduct during its war against Hamas.” In fact, Canada’s decision to formally support the UN resolution for a ceasefire followed a visit to Canada by Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad Al Maliki and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, who were on a mission to to “speak on behalf of Muslim people” and rally support for a ceasefire. Joly and Justin Trudeau warmly embraced these representatives from the virulently antisemitic Palestinian Authority and Turkey, both of which seek to destroy Israel. Now, Joly has reached out to China to “help influence the Houthis to keep the Red Sea open” in a telling move: “Canada Asks China to ‘Help Influence the Houthis to Keep the Red Sea Open,’” by John Hayward, Breitbart, February 19, 2024:

Joly said she met with Wang on Saturday and tried to convince him that keeping the Red Sea shipping lanes safe was “in China’s interests as an exporter.”

Joly and Wang spoke on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, which concluded on Sunday. Wang promised in his address to the conference that China would be a “force for stability” in the world, which would seem to imply that China might help to protect international shipping through one of the world’s busiest sea lanes against a vicious terrorist organization.

China has seen remarkable success in expanding its global influence, including in Canada. Its presence in the Middle East was magnified when it brokered the Saudi-Iran rapprochement last year. According to Foreign Policy Magazine, “when the agreement between Saudi Arabia and Iran to resume diplomatic relations was announced, many U.S. officials and commentators welcomed it. Even though the Chinese-sponsored deal was an apparent blow to the United States’ status in the Middle East, experts speculated that normalization between the Saudis in Riyadh and the Iranians in Tehran would lead to regional de-escalation.” Even nuclear nonproliferation was hoped for. The rapprochement, in fact, led more countries to engage with Iran.

In January, China was meeting Arab leaders to help resolve the Gazan crisis that Hamas provoked on October 7. At the meeting, China called for a “larger-scale peace conference” and a “two-state solution.” Such a “solution” would serve Palestinian interests, not those of Israelis. Israel has been unequivocal in its vow to destroy Hamas, and has now formally rejected international attempts to impose a two-state solution unilaterally, stating that any arrangement with the Palestinians must involve their direct negotiations with Palestinians.

Ryan Hass, director of the John L. Thornton China Center and the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies at the Qatar-funded Brookings Institution, states that “China wants to be seen as a principled actor, an actor standing on the side of peace.” Yet it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that China is anything but principled. It aggressively promotes its own interests, which includes incorporating an appearance of seeking peace.

China’s growing influence has long exceeded that of Joe Biden; and its characteristically quiet modus operandi, unlike that of Islam, has allowed it to achieve a remarkable expansion globally, often under the radar of Western nations, in a dangerous and growing trend.

Melanie Joly’s direct request that China “help influence the Houthis to keep the Red Sea open” is already carrying a price tag. China’s foreign minister Wang Yi seized the opportunity. According to Breitbart:

Canada has also accused China of interfering with its elections, and an investigation is ongoing. Wang alluded to these issues when he said the “current difficult situation” is “not what China wants to see.”

“The two sides are not rivals, let alone enemies, and should become cooperative partners,” Wang said, although he ruined the moment by following up with a little lecture about how Canada should “stop spreading false information about so-called China interference in domestic affairs.”….

To be more specific, it was the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) that has been exposing the Trudeau government’s cozy relationship with China, including election interference. Global News reported in January:

Canada knows China tried to influence the last two federal elections, according to a top secret briefing report obtained by Global News that said the government “must do more” to fight foreign interference.

“We know that the PRC sought to clandestinely and deceptively influence the 2019 and 2021 federal elections,” according to the briefing released by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

Canada has a long history of enabling China, beginning with the tenure of Pierre Trudeau, who as Canadian prime minister played a significant role in the West’s normalizing relations with China. The New York Times reported in 1973:

Among Western nations, Canada was in the forefront of the trend toward diplomatic recognition of the Peking Government and there has been a wide and growing range of trade and other contacts between this country and China for years, long before the United States began normalizing its own relations with the Chinese.

Justin Trudeau magnified what Trudeau senior started, making his motive crystal clear when he answered a question in 2013 about which country he admired most by stating that he most admired China’s basic dictatorship.

As Canada endeavors to distance itself from China when it is expedient to do so, i.e., when the media heat is on about such things as China’s election meddling and its intimidation of dissidents, Joly’s shameless request for China’s help presents a more accurate picture of a Canadian government that is unrepentant about its relationship with China in the face of incursion from the People’s Republic. Her request also tells enemies of the West everywhere that Canada has little confidence that the Western Red Sea Coalition will have any effect on the Houthis. On that point, she may well be correct, but it isn’t helpful to shout it from the rooftops.

As violence on the Red Sea escalates, the European Union (EU) has now launched a non-military naval mission. The operation “will provide maritime situational awareness, accompany vessels, and protect them against possible multi-domain attacks at sea.” Less than a day after the announcement of this EU mission, France announced that its Red Sea warships were “intercepted, destroyed drones launched from Yemen.” There is no doubt that the West is beleaguered on the Red Sea as the Iran-backed Houthis wage war in the Red Sea. This jihad group from the poorest among Arab countries has managed to hold the Red Sea under siege in the presence of a once-powerful Western coalition, thus empowering not only the Houthis, but also Iran and its other proxies, including Hizballah, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Add in the potential emboldening of China in the face of Joly’s request for help.

The Western pattern in confronting the global jihad has for a considerable period been appeasement, which aided jihadi expansion. Islam has a 1,400-year history of violence. As the world continues to be shaken by October 7, it is witnessing and will continue to witness Islam’s increasing call to violence with an aim of nothing less than global conquest. That Joly invited China to intervene, advancing China as the global hero to take back the Red Sea, signals the West’s unpreparedness and decline. Seeking out Communist China’s help is not a prudent strategy. Should China accept the invitation, it may well receive strategic compliance from its ally Iran, which in turn may request that its Houthi proxies back off. In such an event, the West will be checkmated by China (and Iran). China will likely then proceed with its Arab allies to further pressure Israel to comply with its plans for a peace that will favor Hamas. As the walls close in on Israel and the Judeo-Christian free West, the red-green axis expands with the help of Western useful idiots.