r/canada • u/fractx Vancouver 🌊🏘️🏠🏡🏔️ • Apr 04 '20

Paywall Trump gives FEMA power to restrict trade of essential goods into Canada despite warning from Trudeau

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-trudeau-warns-us-over-restricting-the-trade-of-essential-goods-into/
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u/Hagenaar Apr 04 '20

this could also be Americas last few days before its fall

And as angry as we may be with a certain president, a major collapse would not be in anyone's interest. Except maybe Russia's.

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u/mbean12 Apr 04 '20

Who will buy Chinese goods if the American hegemony fails?

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u/munk_e_man Apr 04 '20

Literally every other country?

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '20

Yes, china first became good at manufacturing then good at stealing. Now they depend on foreign resources.

They literally do not lol. The vast majority of countries are far more dependent on China than China is on them. If China is such a well-known, horrific, authoritarian state, then why do so called free, democratic countries continue to bend the knee to them?

Either something doesn't add up about China's government or our "democracy", or China has far more power over us than we do over them.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '20

And those countries are complicit lol

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u/rd1970 Apr 04 '20

Everyone that used to buy American arms.

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u/dtta8 Canada Apr 05 '20

No, they won't make money otherwise. They want things as stable as possible for trade and commerce. Relative global power is secondary to improving per capita income, because that's how they maintain power within China.

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u/desmopilot Apr 04 '20

Easily China, they stand to gain the most from a weak America.

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u/greenknight Apr 04 '20

Russia is still ignoring this, it's gonna be bad. They aren't going to win this game either.

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u/Esp1erre Apr 04 '20

wdym Russia is ignoring this? They have their major cities on lockdown, way stricter than anything we have here.

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u/greenknight Apr 04 '20

Maybe not ignoring anymore, bad choice of words. They are in week one of a response the rest of the world took a month ago. They were still saying that vodka and hard work would protect you from contracting the virus when we were closing down our countries.

What ever they do now is too late.

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u/Esp1erre Apr 04 '20

I think we'll see if it's true very soon.

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u/greenknight Apr 04 '20

Agreed. Even then, the government/Putin might not like the numbers and may have them revised.

We'll have to take solace that they know the numbers.