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.
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.
Are you implying that the Canadian government's intelligence apparatus has technology sophisticated enough to puppeteer/remote control drama teachers in business negotiations?
You've been downvoted for saying something positive about the president of the united states. He never does anything good only acts with class and humility!
I’m not sure if the podcast covered it, but I found it funny that the Canadians are claiming that her phone wasn’t searched, and will release it as long as the defence agrees that it wasn’t searched.
If the defence doesn’t agree, the Canadians want to send it for forensic examination to prove that they didn’t search it.
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[ 15.4 ms ] story [ 982 ms ] threadCanada 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.
But food crops? China is creating a mess in that Canadian department.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3031486/cana...
Here is an article which has images of the presentation Meng gave to HSBC.
If the defence doesn’t agree, the Canadians want to send it for forensic examination to prove that they didn’t search it.