News snippet: Mark Carney’s trip to Beijing this week secured what he described as a “preliminary but landmark” trade deal and a recognition – welcomed by Beijing – that countries are operating in a “new world order”.
Carney’s visit is the first time in nearly a decade that a Canadian prime minister has been welcomed in Beijing. It comes after years of a deep freeze in the relationship between Ottawa and Beijing that Carney wants to thaw, in order to reduce his country’s precarious reliance on the United States.
Guy Saint-Jacques, a former Canadian ambassador to China, said: “The main goal of trying to reset or recalibrate the relationship with China has been achieved during this trip.”
That recalibration comes at a delicate moment for geopolitical alliances between North American countries and China.
Stannis_Loyalist on
Obviously, China has problems but with America being unstable, bombing other countries, and coercing them with annexation. You have no choice but to look outward. And China is the best buyer of agriculture goods and oil.
Peeterdactyl on
What benefits does Canada gain in this new relationship? A market for its products?
ttown2011 on
This is extremely stupid
American continental security is an existential national interest for the United States
We get that you’re offended, and we understand the elbows- but we’re getting close to lines here
This has the potential to turn this from a Trump thing into an actual thing
PositiveSwimming4755 on
I’m going to be honest, as an American, I respect Mark Carney’s balls for this + reciprocal tariffs much more than I respect the “lay down, roll over, and play dead” approach of Europe. Not a single politician with any backbone in that whole goddamn continent.
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News snippet: Mark Carney’s trip to Beijing this week secured what he described as a “preliminary but landmark” trade deal and a recognition – welcomed by Beijing – that countries are operating in a “new world order”.
Carney’s visit is the first time in nearly a decade that a Canadian prime minister has been welcomed in Beijing. It comes after years of a deep freeze in the relationship between Ottawa and Beijing that Carney wants to thaw, in order to reduce his country’s precarious reliance on the United States.
Guy Saint-Jacques, a former Canadian ambassador to China, said: “The main goal of trying to reset or recalibrate the relationship with China has been achieved during this trip.”
That recalibration comes at a delicate moment for geopolitical alliances between North American countries and China.
Obviously, China has problems but with America being unstable, bombing other countries, and coercing them with annexation. You have no choice but to look outward. And China is the best buyer of agriculture goods and oil.
What benefits does Canada gain in this new relationship? A market for its products?
This is extremely stupid
American continental security is an existential national interest for the United States
We get that you’re offended, and we understand the elbows- but we’re getting close to lines here
This has the potential to turn this from a Trump thing into an actual thing
I’m going to be honest, as an American, I respect Mark Carney’s balls for this + reciprocal tariffs much more than I respect the “lay down, roll over, and play dead” approach of Europe. Not a single politician with any backbone in that whole goddamn continent.