Just like Carney's strategy to handle the USA, Canada should only entertain a partnership with China when we are treated as equals, rather than a subordinate.
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U.S. or China... It's a tough choice.
You don’t have to be friends with them to use them both for leverage
How is that even remotely a tough choice. China acts rationally and it has a stable government. Meanwhile, US is disintegrating in real time and unless Canada diversifies its trade then it will be going down with the ship.
As much as I despise the Chinese government and its policies, it does have one thing going for it:
We can do a complete 180 every 4 years, whereas they have a dictator. That stability must be looking pretty appealing these days.
You have a dictatorship; it's called a dictatorship of capitalists. China's state, even after Deng's reforms, has managed to stave off complete takeover by capitalists.
Your elections don't matter much; it'll always slide to the right so long as capitalists control the state.
The dictator thing doesn't mean much - the Chinese dictator seems to have the best interest of China, it's economy and it's people at the top of his priorities as far as I can tell, whereas the US's wanna be dictator cares about nothing but to enrich himself and his rich friends - not the long term success of the US or it's citizens.
I would happily resurrect Augustus and have his as the dictator of the US - but the problem with dictators isn't exactly the fact it's a dictator (assuming it's not a bad one), it's more of the fact that succession doesn't really work and you never know what you get next.
After Augustus, Rome had to deal with Tiberius and Caligula, then after Cladius, Rome had to deal with Nero. And so on and so on.
If the Republican/Conservative party wasn't so utterly broken and filled with the absolutely worst fucking people, maybe this democracy thing would work better, but here we are
Reject American bullying, embrace Chinese bullying instead.
Well, this is better than the hostage diplomacy they practiced during the last major interaction.
Definitely Canada needs to get closer to China. A likely outcome of Asian and other colonies negotiating with US extortion is buying their commodities from US, and Canada getting shut out of markets. FDI in auto sector going only to US. Threat to existing Canadian auto manufacturing, and other business.
If the US does destroy our economy, that is not a good reason to stop the boycott. Refusing to get friendlier with China is refusing the option other than slow death hoping/waiting for the US to get nicer.
Canada's extreme stupidity and weakness is at the heart of an FT news item from yesterday: 2025/04/23/trump-to-exempt-car-parts-from-tariffs-on-china-imports-ft-says/
There is way more Canadian input in cars, but extortionist damage will eventually pay off against a weakling that refuses to make new friends with the actual global superpower. No need whatsoever to even pay attention to Canada concerns.