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Comment by m0zg | Hacker News Reader

Amazingly shrewd strategic play by Trump, IMO. In one fell swoop he created additional direct leverage in negotiations, and also created indirect leverage by making a free trade deal between China and Canada politically impossible, putting more pressure on China, and denying it access to the broader North American market. Canada didn't see this for what it is because it's currently run by a drama teacher.

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Are you suggesting that the Canadian government is composed of one man, and no intelligence apparatus?

IMO Canada is obviously in on it and what's good for the US probably happens to be good for Canada when it comes to trade and China.

It's also doing the US a big favour which Canada can call up for in the future.

Canada is also apart of five eyes and NATO. We have more than enough of our own paranoid security hawks who'd push hard for something like this. Intelligence agencies can be quite persuasive.

Not really Canada needed another source for selling its oil and possibly lumber because America loves strong arming it in trade deals because it's 1/10 the size. So geopolitically this move hurt Canada quite a bit. It could've gotten itself out of it by releasing Meng on some technicality but would've then felt Trump's ire.

The US sucks up enough of our oil. And China doesn’t really build with lumber.

But food crops? China is creating a mess in that Canadian department.

>Canadian police go undercover as Hong Kong protest tensions rise in Richmond, the world’s most-Chinese city outside Asia

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3031486/cana...

Looks like a lot of high school students on both sides.

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