Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tariffs dollar for dollar

Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by __turbobrew__ on Saturday August 22, 2026 @08:31PM (#49405196)

As another Canadian, I wish we could stop treating China as a boogeyman. By and large China is not malicious and really just wants peace (there is a name for the Chinese policy which is basically “do nothing and win” but I forget it).

I also would like to see Canada stop negotiating with the USA. If Trump says “if you aren’t going to do X, we will do Y”, Canada should just say “so be it” and move towards other trade partners. If you want to trade with us in good faith we are completely open to it, but the bipolar level of instability in trade should not be tolerated.

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Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by badc0ffee on Sunday August 23, 2026 @12:13AM (#49406011)

Did you forget about Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor? About China's complete dishonesty during trade negotiations, lying about the quality of or pork and canola oil and then pretending that never happened?

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Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by __turbobrew__ on Sunday August 23, 2026 @01:01PM (#49410422)

I don’t condone their arrests, but it was retaliatory for Canada arresting a huawei exec who had close ties to the party. One of those who was arrested alleged that the other was actively performing espionage in China. This was also confirmed by other unnamed sources.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-spavor-kovrig...

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Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by badc0ffee on Monday August 24, 2026 @03:32PM (#49424765)

China freed the Michaels once Meng Wanzhou was released, which confirms it was all theatre.

We were punished for following the terms of our extradition treaty with the US. We even treated her super well, letting her stay under house arrest in her fancy Vancouver mansion. We did literally everything we could given the circumstances.

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Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by fooker on Sunday August 23, 2026 @03:51AM (#49406877)

> By and large China is not malicious and really just wants peace

China can and will sabotage western economies at every possible opportunity.

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Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by __turbobrew__ on Sunday August 23, 2026 @12:55PM (#49410369)

I don’t believe that. China’s economy and the west’s is very deeply interconnected and what is good for one is good for the other.

Also, the new generation of Chinese has grown up with western comforts and would not readily go back to pre-modernization so they are reliant on the west to trade for technology.

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Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by dh2022 on Sunday August 23, 2026 @04:03PM (#49412068)

I got news for you: China has more and better consumer technology than the West combined. The new generation of Chinese are not dependent on the West for anything.

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Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by __turbobrew__ on Sunday August 23, 2026 @07:35PM (#49413654)

I got news for you: iphone market share has been going up year over year in China.

I got even more news for you: 45% of Chinese oil imports are from middle east vassal states of the USA. And those imports are purchased in USD.

China needs the West and vice versa.

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Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by dh2022 on Sunday August 23, 2026 @09:24PM (#49414291)

I got more news for you: iPhones are made in China. And more astonishing news: US cannot manufacture iPhones.

About Chinese oil imports from Middle East: US cannot stop its Middle East “vassals” from selling oil to China. Not sure what point you’re trying to make…

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Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by zem on Sunday August 23, 2026 @06:02AM (#49407500)

> By and large China is not malicious and really just wants peace

pretty sure the tibetans would disagree, to cite but one example

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Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by __turbobrew__ on Sunday August 23, 2026 @12:49PM (#49410311)

OK lets try doing this for the USA;

* I’m sure the vietnamese would disagree

* I’m sure the cubans would disagree

* I’m sure the iraqis would disagree

* I’m sure the afghanis would disagree

* I’m sure the venezuelans would disagree

* I’m sure the iranians would disagree

* I’m sure the palastinians would disagree

Should I go on? I didn’t mention all of the latin american countries the CIA fucked?

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Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by zem on Sunday August 23, 2026 @02:31PM (#49411200)

sure, but no one claimed that the usa was not malicious and just wanted peace. it's as vicious as china.

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Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by __turbobrew__ on Sunday August 23, 2026 @07:36PM (#49413661)

Compared to the USA, China seems a whole lot more peaceful.

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