An anti-colonial Europe. Never thought we’d see the day. Guess it’s different when it’s your soverign territory that’s the potential colony.

Why pick characteristics indistinguishable between China and the US lol

No it is Canada’s duty to protect the sacred North American institutions of F150 and Ram /s

While we can agree Russia has been failing as their initial unsuccessful strategy was to take Kiev in one fell swoop, it’s fairly widely agreed upon among Western intelligence agencies that their current strategy is a grinding war of attrition. So we shouldnt perceive them going slow as a sign of weakness. It’s their strategy. Whether it’s a viable strategy time will tell but it’s clear they don’t care if they have to put hundreds of thousands in the meat grinder or if it takes a decade, as long as they eventually achieve their goal. Part of their calculus is that democracies are inherently not as good at long term planning as autocracies.

All those years the Americans spent bragging about defeating the Nazis only to then become the Nazis. What a timeline.

Every empire has a grand narrative. The rest of the world has been quietly rolling their eyes at these American euphemisms for some time now.

Was a thousand years of the dark ages not quite enough?

Sure China is not some moral or benevolent actor in all this. At the very least they were forward thinking enough to subsidize the future of automobile transport. Some degree of protectionism may be warranted but the goal should be to catch up with China in the meantime, not double down on fossil fuels.

They’re doing what we should be doing. Subsidizing a sustainable alternative.

Canada and Europe have already let Chinese vehicles in. Canada reportedly wants to make an indigineous EV through sharing of Chinese technological knowledge. Wonder how long the US will hold out.

It sounds like youre being limited by your self perception. That’s okay. We all are in some way, especially at your age.

The first thing you need to do is turn your intuition inwards. You’ve put a lot of thought into how others see you but that energy be better spent exploring how you see yourself.

Your judgement of yourself is the most constant presence in your life. Others may come and go. Some may think you look child like, some may disagree vehemently. What’s most important is how you see yourself.

The goal is to adjust your perception a little less towards how you look and a little more towards how you feel, because the latter is as if not more important in connecting with another person.

People can tell when a person is feeling confident / secure or scared / vulnerable. It’s possible to connect with others in many different states of mind but easier to in the former.

I’ve met many different men and women in my life. The ones that find it easiest to find companionship are those that feel good about themselves and in some way feel good about the world. The first step is to look within, find what you love about yourself and let that be your window into everything.

Canada wants to be 1st in North America to build EV with Chinese knowledge: senior official

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-electric-car-china-tariffs-trump-united-states-9.7049950

Neither India nor Brazil want BRICS to become a Global South equivalent to NATO and instead see it as a forum for economic cooperation so their actions match their intentions.

The lead nation was China with Russia and Iran also participating in the most recent military exercise. Brazil likely would not want to participate given their proximity to the US and India is already part of other security partnerships (Quad).

1. Dogmatically sticking to fossil fuels.
2. “Protecting” domestic manufacturering jobs by refusing to engage with your neighbours.
3. Using tariffs to keep out affordable Chinese EVs that use tech everyone will probably be using in 15 to 20 years.

Sounds like a recipe for disaster. You can only artificially prop up your domestic market for so long. You’ll inevitably fall behind even further on innovation with this approach.

Might be the first to make a CoPilot or ChatGPT powered car though.

The ruling class in such countries are almost always hand selected to protect American interests in the region. They’re compensated under the table to sell out their countrymen.

I wouldn’t agree that it was at wall street’s expense. American companies went into China willingly and agreed to those terms, eager for potential cost savings in return. One of the most notorious examples is Zuckerberg going out of his way to learn Mandarin, looking for any advantage to get Meta into China. China has played its cards quite intelligently, utilizing the foundation of unchecked greed in American corporate practice to build itself to its current position while the US government either fell asleep at the wheel or erroneously assumed that China would eventually assume the role of US vassal, like South Korea or Japan, as it became prosperous.

I agree that unchecked capitalism creates circumstances where the strengths of the free market gets subverted by monopolization and regulatory capture.

‘Best position in the world’ for US corporate interests. The fact that the wealth accrued from that is not distributed equitbly in the US is more of an internal issue rather than one related to trade policy.

Neoliberalism is meant to work to work in favor of American companies. When you mention a laborer in SE Asia making a pittance in exchange for terrible working conditions and benefits, it is American companies that are saving on costs and those savings show up on their balance sheets.

The issue is that the average American sees none of that and at best gets lower prices. The rest goes into the pockets of a few.

This is a feature of unregulated capitalism in the age of globalisation. If a country tries to push back (generally through left leaning movements / revolutions), the US government steps in to protect US corporate interests by staging a coup and installing a puppet.

Having two federal parties with the Dems and Republicans being the only feasible options sounds antidemocratic. A true democracy would be a bit more… representative.

What they’re really saying is that colonialism is good for colonizers.

Throws his staff under the bus and assumes he will get another oppurtunity. Poor PR instincts in my opinion.

I appreciate that Carney is a pragmatist. With the way the world is today, that is the only successful strategy.

Geopolitically Canada is in a bit of a bind with everyone’s big brother in the West (US) turning heel so it makes sense to have good trade relationships with other large economies.

Trump has accelerated the expansion of fault lines in the West so if there ever was a time to hedge and diversify, it’s now.

Carney is similarly approaching a normalization of trade relations with India which is wise given their demographic dividend and growth trajectory. It would be short sighted not to do that.

There are issues with China’s brand of capitalism, no doubt. There is a touch of imperialism sure, but Canada is used to having strong relationships with imperial entities. Specifically, Britain and then the US. Although, both are Anglo Saxon so they may feel more familiar and that familiarity likely may make it easier to turn a blind eye to their misdeeds.

In any event Canada is used to dealing with big whales that occasionally do bad things so hopefully Carney can find points of leverage and use that to arrive at an agreement that is advantageous for the Canadian people.

Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. As we are seeing, in real time, with the flourishing of the far right in the West. Thank you for the opportunity to contextualize my argument for you in my post above. Wish you the best on your personal journey to better understand our world.

Many of every other nation, race, culture and creed do too.

Not in the way that Indigineous cultures actively do today. See the sources listed by fossilesque above. Indigineous peoples often find themselves in a position where they have to protect the environment from Western corporate interests (which are an extension of Western culture).

No, there is value in sperating out the West here. Let’s refer to the past 500 years of human history. You can claim that my approach is binary ie. western by seperating them out as an entity but the reality is it was their binary view of the world (ie. white people being superior) that has led us to this point. They developed the economic and technologic leverage to make that binary our lived reality. Ignoring that would be naive at best, disingenuous at worst.

It was less than 100 years ago that the average Westerner felt that white countries / cultures were moral, sophisticated, trustworthy and non-white counterparts were immoral, simple, suspicious. The noble savage is a rare stereotype that went off the beaten path, but it was still an example of yet another binary (they’re simple, we’re sophisticated) Western stereotype / worldview.

Coming back to the present day, was it not the Canadian government that signed a memorandum of understanding to build an oil pipeline to its west coast without consulting the Indigineous community there? I recall multiple Indigineous leaders stating they would take the government to court. That sounds to me like the Indigineous community in Canada (as one example) takes environmental sustainability more seriously.