Peking erklärt sich bereit, die Wirtschaftsbeziehungen mit Kanada zu vertiefen, da Trump für Handelschaos sorgt

ROC Taiwan, sure! Mainland PROC China? No.

Why do we have to be the filling in the China – US sandwich?

Canada’s been tied too tight to the U.S. over the last 50 years, especially after NAFTA. Back in the 1970s, Pierre Trudeau could go back and forth between the U.S., Soviet Union, and China, but now it’s tougher with 80% of Canada’s exports going to the U.S.

We should be hitting up Australia, Britain, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the EU for trade agreements. Hell, any Latin American country too. Let’s give Cuba a call and make some deals.

This I’m a bit hesitant of. It’s backfired on us more than once.

I’d rather see an expansion into trade with Europe and South America.

Rather get annexed by the US than get closer to Chi-Coms.

We should be turning to Europe, not China, for closer economic ties.

It’s time to tell Quebec to stop crippling the national economy by opposing pipelines. Europe wants our oil and gas, and we need to get it to Nova Scotia to get it to Europe, which means getting it through Quebec. America has shown that allowing us to be almost entirely dependent on them is a terrible idea, and we need to be telling Quebec that its opposition to pipelines that will allow us to diversify our economy is no longer acceptable. We need a national response to Trump’s threats that recognizes what exactly it is that we sell and what the best way to do that is, and whatever provinces have had issues with it, like Quebec and BC, need to be told that the good of the country as a whole is, frankly, more important than the concerns of some provincial-level environmental lobbyists.

We need pipelines and LNG terminals, and we need them yesterday. Europe, Japan, and South Korea are literally begging for our gas, and we can’t sell it to them, so instead we sell it for pennies to the US compared to what we could get overseas.

It’s so great to be a helpless nation as two giants take swings at us like a giant pinata. Hopefully all this nonsense reminds the Canadian public why investing in our own military and equipment is essential for our sovereignty. More important than jet-setting around the globe playing climate change warrior.

I bet they are. I mean they’ve already got police stations here and are gobbling up our IP – what great friends!

Eastasia good?

Justin is suddenly trying to find a reason to backtrack from his resignation. His dream of becoming a true disciple of Beijing, who he admires, would finally come true.

What we need is a bunch of crown corps that sell natural resources for all Canadians. Kick out the fucking mega corps who plunder our resources and give nothing back.

Let’s ask a friend who has more experience with this. Hey Taiwan…

Probably china is much better than US.

No thanks. Would rather the occasional spat with our neighbour than make deals with the devil.

I’d rather be 51st state than the next chinese province

They are already salivating at the opportunity of getting their CCP pundits to vote on the Liberal leadership race. Doesn’t surprise me that China would be circling like a vulture now. They can fuck right off!

China seems to prefer having vassals to trade partners so I would be reticent to embrace this in a time of economic uncertainty. Trade agreements with China have historically blown up in our faces.

For Canada it’s a bit laughable as the most culturally and politically aligned country with the US in the world but Trump before taking office has essentially eroded US soft power and credibility.

1. His tariff threats because he’s upset about US-Canada trade based on obvious failures to understand how trade deficits and tariffs work. But the cherry on top is this is the trade deal that he himself negotiated and praised. Why is he acting like his own trade deal is horrible and tearing it up. Especially when we agreed to have it in place until at least 2034?

2. The threats to Canada, Greenland, Panama, and through his little friend Elon the UK. These are all allied nations and he’s openly threatening to annex them. Even Putin makes sure to speak in a way to not be so obvious when he wants to annex parts of Ukraine, Belarus, or Georgia.

Between openly threating allies with annexation, complete invalidation that agreements will not be torn up randomly, tariff threats, interference in rule of law to protect Elon companies, and bipolar whiplash between administrations it’s not going to be surprising when you see countries around the world have no interest in aligning with the US and instead choosing China or others or keeping an arms length and a grain of salt when dealing with the US. I don’t expect Canada to do this for a variety of reasons but I do expect American spheres of influence to massively contract in the next four years with some areas being irreparable.

I know China has a shit human rights record, but since we already buy tons of stuff from them why not sell some stuff as well and make some money back? As they slowly inch towards economic parity they’re going to need a lot of raw materials to fully modernize. Especially in their outer provinces.

no difference between one dictator to the other. time to cut ties with america.