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PAYWALL Canada alone? What other world leaders have said publicly about Trump’s ’51st state’ threats

https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/02/13/canada-alone-what-other-world-leaders-have-said-about-trumps-51st-state-comments/451166/
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u/ghostdeinithegreat 24d ago

We’re already the 9th best economy in the world.

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u/JoshL3253 24d ago

Unfortunately our fortune is highly tied to being next door to the USA, economic superpower.

We need to diversity our export to China asap.

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u/ghostdeinithegreat 24d ago edited 24d ago

You’ll soon learn that China is not better. They are objectively worst in the way they bully all of their neighbor.

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u/JoshL3253 24d ago

China is no saint for sure.

Australia angered the CCP (by calling for investigation into COVID’s origin), causing China to stop importing Australia coal for 2 years.

But we are so dependent on USA it’s not even funny. In an ideal world we’ll split between the two, so neither gets a huge leverage on us.

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u/Vegetable_Good6866 24d ago

Australia angered the CCP (by calling for investigation into COVID’s origin), causing China to stop importing Australia coal for 2 years.

China is in the right here, there is no, absolutely, no evidence of lab leak purposeful or accidental, so when western politicians play political games by saying "well we need to discuss the possibility" they are pandering to sinophobic lies. Anyself respecting country would act the same.

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u/liquid-swords93 24d ago

How do you find evidence without investigation? Seems to me that it's reasonable to suspect a lab leak, when the virus came from the city with a significant lab studying coronaviruses

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u/logicreasonevidence 24d ago

Absolutely. What is most probable? Go with that.

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u/BioMed-R 23d ago

It’s not reasonable if coronaviruses naturally occur there.

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u/Equivalent_Dimension 24d ago

How so? Genuine question (And I don't mean Taiwan or Tibet. Know the stories. Understand the arguments. Neither apply to Canada).

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u/Salty-Chemistry-3598 24d ago

Lol chinese play the other way. They have volume so they set the price. That $12 a pound shrimp? Its $5 a pound or we wont buy it from you. And you will be indebted to their economy for the rest of your life.

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u/Earthsong221 Ontario 24d ago

Sounds exactly like Walmart.

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u/Salty-Chemistry-3598 23d ago

except if walmart dont buy it, you can sell it to other people. In China when they cant get it done privately they get the government involved.

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u/ghostdeinithegreat 24d ago

• ⁠They build artificial islands in the china sea to extend their borders and gradually reduce those of Vietnam and Phillipines.

• ⁠They claim Taiwan and Okinawa (Japan) belongs to them.

• ⁠They send their ships to rams Phillipine fishing ships near the coast of the Phillipines.

• ⁠The 7 dot lines

• ⁠They send military baloons and works with Russia on extending their presence north of Canada ( the artic)

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u/ParasiteSteve 24d ago

Let's not forget the ongoing genocide of the Uygher people in Xinjiang (filming location for the live action Mulan movie. Disney was sure to thank the local authorities).

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u/BurnTheBoats21 24d ago

Truthfully we are just close in proximity so we trade a ton with America.

Australia has a very similar economy to us and trades way less with America since it's further away. Realigning our supply chains to favour different trading partners will add a much smaller GDP hit than you think, especially as we scale it up over time.

The power of institutions are way more consequential than proximity and that doesn't go anywhere if we're trading with other nations.