Bloc Leader Blanchet Met With Chinese Ambassador, Says ‘Not Meant to Be Friends’

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet said he went into a meeting with the Chinese ambassador without being “naive” and spoke of a “huge gap” existing between the parties. “We discussed trade and culture, and human rights a little bit, and self-determination a little bit, and environment also,” Blanchet said in a press conference in Ottawa on Aug. 15. The Bloc leader spoke of a “huge gap between the way we see each other” and said it’s “even worse” in the case of the Bloc. “We clearly are the more sincerely committed to the self-determination rights of people and nations, including Tibet, including Taiwan, including Uyghyrs. So we are not meant to be friends.”...