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30.06.26 - 11:06
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Why the US-Mexico-Canada Trade Deal Is in Jeopardy (Bloomberg)
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Since the first free trade agreement between the US, Canada and Mexico took effect in 1994, the three countries have established one of the world's most formidable trading blocs. Their current pact, the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), creates a common market for goods and services for some 515 million people whose combined economies account for 30% of the world's gross domestic product....
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28.06.26 - 05:21
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Beijing′s Trojan Horse Rolls Into Canada: National Security Expert Warns Carney′s Chinese EV Deals Embeds Sabotage Risk (ZeroHedge)
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Beijing's Trojan Horse Rolls Into Canada: National Security Expert Warns Carney's Chinese EV Deals Embeds Sabotage Risk
Submitted by The Bureau's Sam Cooper (emphasis our own),
China keeps finding inventive ways to burrow into the West, and Canada's new appetite for Chinese electric vehicles may be the most consequential opening yet.
That is the warning at the center of a report published this week by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and written by Brenda Shaffer, an energy and national-security specialist who teaches at the United States Naval Postgraduate School.
China, she writes, "continues to find creative ways to infiltrate and influence the West," embedding in its exports the capacity to surveil citizens, disrupt transportation and ports, and trigger blackouts and grid damage.
Shaffer situates the electric-vehicle question inside a wider argument about hybrid warfare. China, Russia and Iran, she notes, have each written attacks on Western domestic energy infrastructure i...
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