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Interesting that Canada agreed to break with the US on EV tariffs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648778

It's limited but I feel like Canada aligning themselves at all with China over the US is an interesting development.

It's a good point but imo not really surprising when the President of the United States essentially threatened to invade Canada and Greenland.

This is classic multipolar politics, trade the two behemoths against each other so they don't roll over one day and just squish you. By alienating Canada and Europe we've handed China a great gift.

It's only getting started. Do you think Europe is going to use American networking equipment when America has shown that it will use its military against Europe? American grid technology?

And what about all those huge pending orders for F35 in ... Denmark and Canada? Etc.

Denmark ordered more in October. Canada talks a lot, but so far has done nothing concrete about reducing their order. You would think they would urgently cancel and get Gripens and/or Rafales.

Wonder what's going on behind the scenes.

Having a pending order that can be cancelled is negotiation leverage?

There are no other options. The F35 is the only gen5 fighter you can buy (Russia has one, but they can't make it and in any case Russia is invading Europe now and so not an option) , and as such it is going to be better than anything else you can get. Plus the cost of the F35 is similar or less than your other options.

The real question is what do those countries do when they have other options.

everyone is expecting everyone to actually go Gripen with Rolls Royce or MECA engines?

Europe is stuck with American tech with no real alternatives in the horizon. Europe doing an independent stack is just wishful thinking.

The alternative is China.

Wasn’t there a report in the last 10 years about China accounting for a huge portion of property sales in Canada? I thought I remembered seeing it was as high as 30% in some areas.

30% of house sales in Canada are not purchased in China, no.

Found the article. Vancouver specifically.

I believe this led to some legislation in 2023 to prevent or reduce foreign home buyers?

https://vancouversun.com/business/local-business/chinese-inv...

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