I'm sorry editors, but you have wrapped a reasonable editorial about a potential extradition treaty with rampant hyperbole and provincial falsehoods. 
First, Canadians think about the 'water'. We think about it when we remember WW2, we thought about it when the Americans were humiliating themselves and murdering vietnamese, we thought about it when Bush asked us to help out in Iraq and his son asked us to help in Afghanistan. 
The idea we don't think about it or appreciate it is downright silly. 
But (second) the idea it's because we live in some protected space of western european civilization - well, that's worse than silly. It's like a very slightly dressed up version of the old colonial line. 

As for your ideas about China, I wonder if any of the team have traveled extensively or lived there? Suffice it to say that the China you describe doesn't look much like the one I worked in, and given how inaccurate your description of Canadians I hardly imagine its accurate.