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China doesn't do friends - thats for sure. However if you have a transactional trade relationship with clear boundaries that don't get undermined due to random
by boringg 9mo ago
China doesn't do friends - thats for sure. However if you have a transactional trade relationship with clear boundaries that don't get undermined due to random temperaments you can build on that. The other is impossible to build on - especially threatening to own the country.
This is an eye opening event.
- ceejayoz 9mo agoYeah. Nations need reliable partners more than they need unreliable friends.
- adamiscool8 9mo agoChina and their famously steady temperament would never be so bold as to try to own a dependent country or strategically weaponize trade. These are real things Canadians believe - talk about eye opening!
- timeon 9mo agoSure but still better than USA.
- adamiscool8 9mo agoBetter how?
- ceejayoz 9mo agoNot currently making "jokes" about annexing the country?
- adamiscool8 9mo agoTwo years ago the same party that currently holds Canadian government and just made these concessions to China completed a report [0] that found >[China’s actions] collectively "undermine our democratic institutions, our fundamental rights and freedoms, our social cohesion and our long-term prosperity.”[343] [and] the need to consider the threats in the context of an increasingly assertive PRC. Accordingly, Minister Garneau stated that various countries, including Canada, are reassessing their relationship with the PRC in light of its authoritarian and coercive actions. But yeah a little chirping about Canada’s own unfair trade practices must be DEFCON 3 for US-Canada relations. [0] https://www.ourcommons.ca/documentviewer/en/44-1/CACN/report-3/page-153 https://www.ourcommons.ca/documentviewer/en/44-1/CACN/report...
- ceejayoz 9mo agoAnd what would such a report about the US authored today look like? Two years ago Trump wasn’t President. The math changed, massively.
- margalabargala 9mo agoIf a country tries to strategically weaponize trade that's something you can predict. That's what makes it strategic. A predictable relationship is preferable to one where you need to keep wondering whether this week's threat of military action that could draw you into a war, is one of the ones that might actually happen.