It was this sort of realpolitik that eventually lead to WWII here in Europe. Appeasement doesn’t work with dictatorships.

This is why Canada needs to make the necessary reforms as @Sunshine@lemmy.ca has said I assume.

The high cost is related to the fact that non-Chinese drones are nearly twice as expensive, the RCMP said.

Yeah, but non-Chinese drones are also not made under slave-like conditions.

This is not about ‘leverage’ but a stance on human rights. But, more importantly, it’s a reason why China is not a reliable partner for Canada.

It’s also important that the UAE is also allegedly supporting crimes against humanity and genocide in China’s Xinjiang region. There is ample evidence for Beijing’s atrocities against Uyghurs as you may know (you’ll find a lot of very reliable sources across the web, some of them even here as I have read).

So Canada must not look only at Sudan but also China.

It is also important in this context that Chinese military was reportedly hosted at base in the UAE. The UAE and China have close military ties and held a joint air force drill in China’s Xinjiang region.

Thank you for your respectful and sophisticated opinion.