Beijing — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney hailed a new “strategic partnership” with China during a meeting with leader Xi Jinping Friday, as the US ally took steps to reset ties with Beijing in the face of historic friction with Donald Trump.
Canada would ease tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and expected China to significantly reduce barriers tariffs on Canadian canola seed later this year, Ottawa said in a statement after the meeting – in a major step to ease long-standing trade tensions.
The prime minister’s visit this week had made clear Ottawa’s new objective: to move its economy closer to its second largest trading partner following a year in which Trump ratcheted up trade and political frictions with Canada, imposing sweeping tariffs and publicly musing about turning the country into the 51st US state.
Ah, yes. China’s winning formula for national policy: Sit back and win by default while the US is busy punching their own nutsack, laughing gormlessly and exclaiming “Ow, my balls!”
Please, China is great because of the US not despite it. People are so confused about what is going on it isn’t even funny.
Well, maybe it’d help alleviate some of our confusion if you’d present your perspective instead of just alluding to having one.
It is okay, I can speak the truth because you can’t.
More billionaires than the US this year.
At some point reality has to come home to roost.
Yeah, I don’t know how to tell you this, so I’ll just be blunt: That… wasn’t very helpful.
If you want me to understand you, you’re going about it the wrong way.
Communist China producing more billionaires than the US this year. Clearly most people are confused about what is really going on. I suppose years of anti-China propaganda has lead to some of this confusion.
There is a difference between confusion/lack of knowledge and willful ignorance though.
Just because the People’s Republic of China is ruled by the “Communist Party” in an authoritarian manner doesn’t mean that China still has a communist socio-economic order. The regime opened up to significant capitalist elements decades ago, allowing market forces and private enterprise. It’s not communism that’s generating those billionaires. Just sayin’.
Neither is it capitalism that’s exiling, imprisoning, and executing billionaires when they break the law. Just sayin’.
Not when they break the law, when they break the law in such a way that it hurts other capitalists. You are allowed to use and abuse the average citizen, just don’t steal another billionaire’s share of the pie.
It’s capitalism on turbo, but they also have all the means of manufacturing everything so they don’t depend on a competing state.
It’s still late stage capitalism, but it’ll probably exist in that for a lot longer the US empire, which is collapsing because it prioritized short term profit over long term sustainability and now that china caught up in quality and pretty much surpassed it in reputation, it’s beyond repair.
So they’re desperately trying to control oil supply around the world, to maintain value of the petrodollar.
Agreed.
Everything you said seems pretty accurate. Communism is just propaganda as it always was in China.
Mao was a very different kind of beast than the current senior administration. My point is that 21st century China is basically carrying out the playbook that the US superpower developed in the second half of the 20th century. We’ve seen a lot of this stuff before… it’s just that the weight is clearly shifting toward China, now that the US administration is eating up itself. Except that the Chinese leadership isn’t even trying to pretend it follows democratic ideals. It’s both fascinating and terrifying to watch.
Okay. Now I understand what you meant, but I still don’t see what point you’re getting at. China is in no way Communist.
My confusion stems from the fact that you absolutely refuse to clearly say what you mean, and instead make vague allusions to… something or other.
Is it really that hard to just clearly write out the argument you wish to make?
I was just saying most people don’t know. You clearly know.
It is not very common, even on Lemmy, to have people think that China is not actually practicing communism. Even though, for instance, they produced more billionaires than the US this year.
Ah, right. I finally understand what we’ve apparently been talking about. See, if instead you wrote: “I was just saying that most people don’t know that China isn’t Communist.” then everything would be immediately clear rather than a guessing game. I think you’d really help yourself be less easily misunderstood if you try to be mindful of whether your statements are fully qualified.
We’re trying our best, but humans aren’t telepathic. I’m not saying that you don’t know what you’re talking about, but the rest of us don’t – unless you tell us.
But we got there in the end, and it seems we’re now on the same page.