Subject: Re: Mark Carney Wins In Canada...
You think tanks are necessary for us to be an adversary to Canada? There's a reason why trade war is the metaphor that gets used.M</>

Carney is running around saying that Trump wants their land and resources and you're echoing that. To hear Carney tell it he expects US Paratroopers to come flying across the border Red Dawn style any day now. I'm half surprised he didn't scream WOLVERINES!!!!!! during his victory speech yesterday.

He's doing what left wing politicians do the world over: excuse their failures by hiding the weenie someplace else. In this case, south of his border.

And those very, very aggressive moves will involve harming large swaths of Canada. He's not trying to hide this. He apparently believes that because we buy many billions of dollars of goods from Canada that we are "subsidizing" them, and he wants that to stop.

You know who else made that very argument?

Justin Trudeau.

Now, why would the leader of Canada be raising a MAGA talking point? Do you think there may be even a slight amount of truth to it?

If not, then why did JT go there?

There's no indication that Trump can run over anyone in a negotiation. So far, all that's happened is the U.S. unilaterally giving concessions all over the place, because we've managed to create a situation where we have the weaker negotiating position and it's getting worse as time passes.

Is that so? I think you're not watching China as closely as you should. Google "ethane China imports" and tell me what you find.

Trump needs Xi more than Xi needs Trump, and that increases over time

Hmm, let's repeat this back to you:
So the country that runs a trade *surplus* is 100% in the driver's seat when the country that has a massive trade *deficit* cries foul?

Sure about that? Are you familiar enough with Chinese internal politics to muse over what happens to Xi if all of a sudden thousand of Chinese factories sit idle and a bunch of ships sit out at port with nowhere to go?

That's what sidelined the discussions with Japan

Also not correct. The Japanese and South Koreans are waiting for their elections before doing anything.

and the same is apparently happening with India.

Nope. Not according to Modi himself.