Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US

Re:Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shif... by mtzaldo on Saturday January 17, 2026 @03:56PM (#46662002)

What are you talking about? The US navy protects the commercial shipment routes around the world.

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Re:Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shif... by cjs_ac on Saturday January 17, 2026 @04:08PM (#46662115)

Before the US Navy did that, the Royal Navy did. The work needs to be done, but it doesn't have to be the US doing it.

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Re:Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shif... by bluebarbet on Saturday January 17, 2026 @04:08PM (#46662123)

The gratuitous hostility undermines your point.

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Re:Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shif... by nullocator on Saturday January 17, 2026 @04:46PM (#46662437)

Likely soon corporate owned drones will protect commercial shipping routes I would think. Not sure if bad actors (pirates?!) will have their own drones.

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Re:Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shif... by cudgy on Sunday January 18, 2026 @04:03AM (#46666114)

Because pirates would never steal shipments of drones …

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Re:Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shif... by layer8 on Saturday January 17, 2026 @04:54PM (#46662497)

I’m sure that China would be happy to take over.

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Re:Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shif... by cmxch on Sunday January 18, 2026 @07:59PM (#46673858)

And it would be quite hard for China to protect anything that the US or private actors could just sink and enjoy the protection of the US government.

This is not like the Philippines where China can roll them over.

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Re:Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shif... by verzali on Sunday January 18, 2026 @04:10AM (#46666166)

Hmm, there are rail routes across Eurasia.

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