justin trudeau, prime minister up in canada, is contending to say hey, these truckers are driving us crazy, hurting the economy, scaring people, making things making things inconvenient. i want to ask you and this is a little quiz for you who said this? the whole point of protesting us to make people uncomfortable. activists that take discomfort with the status quo and advocate for concrete policy changes i m a popular support often starts small and grows to folks who complain that protest demands make others uncomfortable, that s the point. either of you want to venture a guess on that? i m assuming it is going to be justin trudeau, because that is who we are talking about. shannon: it is not, but it is a member of congress. alexandria ocasio-cortez back in december 2020 after a year where we saw a lot of demonstrations and unrest. so jason, what about that? the left likes protest when it lines up i guess with their worldview? yeah, why justin trudeau is not doing is listeni
michaels really kind of sent shockwaves around the world in both the talk about how a lot of other countries felt that they were immune to more of the negative rack percussions of china s growing authoritarianism, that they could continue to benefit economically and expand trade et cetera without worrying some of the more draconian directions that china is going to but i think this hostage taking, it led many countries including the uk and all across europe, australia, they are a lot more wary but in the last few years, i ve criticised how this wariness has not been met with actual concrete changes, any concrete policy changes or resources given to improve the level of china expertise in government, even in the us cabinet basically no one senior or even less senior levels have much china experience at all.