Canada will now bear the brunt of Trump's childish tantrums for shaming the narcissist at Davos. Canada has already been in the crosshairs of Trump and making deals with China has infuriated the man-child. The knives are out and Canada must be ready for retaliation or else really becoming the 51st state of the USA. By the way, it seems that Finland is also going the way of Canada, being already plastered with the 52nd state of the USA signboard. At this rate, who is going to be the 245th state of the USA I just wonder. Tell that to Russia, China, North Korea and Iran and get their interesting response.
True leaders are few. Brave leaders even fewer. Germany had two successive wimps as leaders and that is how the country is slipping down the slope. Worse still is the UK, changing leaders like changing soiled clothing, with leaders like Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and now Kier Starmer joining the dishonorable list. France is doing no better with Macron trying to straddle two boats and getting threatened by Trump for not answering the call to join his 'Board of Piss'. Suffice to say, Macron will still capitulate under the threat of 200% tariff extortion.
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During the 2024 election, some people were commenting on which candidate China would support to win the election - Trump or Harris. Of course, China could not openly tell anyone who it is in favor of winning, as that will be interpreted straight away as interfering in the USA's internal affairs. Only the USA can interfere in any country's internal affairs but not the other way round is the mantra.
But close to the ground, some people seem to think that China actually wanted Trump to win, because China probably can see that Trump's policies during his first term will be carried over to his second term, which will make China Greater Again. And it does seem to be so far. Why is that so?
For China to just target USA farmers without the trade war started by Trump, China will have to bear the brunt of global condemnation and USA's anger. The trade war afforded China just the best opportunity to diversify its food security to other sources and was actually a blessing in disguise. No one can fault China for doing so, right? It was just a retaliation for Trump's trade war that any other country would do the same.
China, of course, has to be prepared for any expected and obvious escalation of the trade war, and here it must be said that China already did it sums during Trump's first term. China diversified its food security, build up its energy infrastructure, open up more trade links with the Global South, diversified its financial resources and support from real estate into technology, EVs, shipbuilding and building up its military capabilities. The best thing that happened was the ability to capitalize on Russia's cheap energy to further its advantage in manufacturing. The next best thing that the trade war did was it kickstarted China's sale of its USA Treasury holdings.
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