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Former Canadian Deputy PM Says China Benefits the Most From US-Canada Trade Spat, Warns We Should Be Skeptical of Commitments from Beijing (www.bloomberg.com)

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cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/7440882

Here is an Invidious link for the video (6 min.) (original is here)

Former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland doubts the effectiveness of Canada's trade agreement with China, saying China should not be trusted.

"China today, when it talks to countries like Canada - and I would personally say this is sad - is casting itself as the reliable partner...my own view is we need to be a little bit skeptical of commitments from China."

"A lot of Canadians are now coming to the conclusion that Beijing can be trusted more than Washington. I think that's really sad ... and it is [also] not in the national American interest."

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[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can understand healthy skepticism, as long as you rember that there is an clear and present danger just to the south.

[–] Scotty@scribe.disroot.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

China's reliability depends on China's government in the first place. It has nothing to do with the US nor anyone else. Beijing isn't becoming better because Washington -or anyone else- is getting worse. The danger for Canada doesn't come only from the south.

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Sure, but we need some kind of deals with somebody, and the states has gone back on several deals in the past year, so it'd be hard to be less reliable at this point.