Carney says China is a foreign interference, geopolitical threat for Canada

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  1. IHateTrains123 on

    >Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney said that China is one of the largest threats with respect to foreign interference in Canada and is an emerging threat in the Arctic.

    >In a debate Thursday night ahead of the April 28 election, Carney replied “China,” when asked to name Canada’s biggest security threat.

    >Asked to elaborate at a news conference in Niagara Falls on Friday, Carney said Canada has to counter Chinese foreign interference threats. He also criticized China for being a partner with Russia in the war with Ukraine and said it is a threat to broader Asia and Taiwan in particular.

    >Carney said China is the biggest threat “from a geopolitical sense.”

    >”We’re taking action to address,” he added.

    >[…]

    >Canada is also locked in a trade war with its long-term ally the United States. Canada has imposed [retaliatory](https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadas-plan-retaliatory-tariffs-us-2025-03-04/) tariffs on U.S. goods in response to U.S. tariffs on Canadian autos, steel and aluminum, and goods that do not comply with a North American Free Trade deal.

    >Carney said Canada would not try to match the U.S. dollar for dollar in retaliation, but said the entire global trading system is being reordered.

    >”That level of shared values with the U.S. is shifting, so our level of engagement will shift,” he said.

    >There were opportunities for Canada to engage beyond the United States and China, the world’s two largest economies, he said.

    >”There are huge opportunities in Europe, in ASEAN, Mercosur, other parts of the world where we can further deepen, and we should, and I think we will,” Carney said.

    !ping Can&Foreign-policy

  2. WifeGuy-Menelaus on

    Oh boy I cant wait to be the target of a trade war from both China and America at the same time while both tries to dislodge us from the other

  3. That answer honestly surprised me a bit, but trump is so thin skinned that saying the US would do us no favours.

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