Canada’s Carney visits Asia to forge new alliances and reduce US dependence

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/canadas-carney-visits-asia-forge-new-alliances-reduce-us-dependence-2025-10-24/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

32 comments

  1. Disgraceful what the Grand Ol pedophiles have done to the US.

  2. This is the worst part about this admin and its supporters thinking that they’re “saving America” by imposing tariffs and screwing over the neighbors.

    It’s just going to drive other countries to seek alliances and trade partners that do not include the US.

  3. When you keep telling your closest ally to sit at the kids’ table, don’t be surprised when they go eat with the adults.

  4. Carney has done well to handle Trump with kid gloves since becoming PM. Hopefully he puts his right foot forward in these upcoming meetings with Xi Jinping and create some inroads with the superpower across the Pacific.

  5. The world is turning its back on the US as much as possible now due to Trump’s stupid trade war.

  6. Get me a cheap electric car while you’re over there Mark!

  7. Good on Canada, they need new friends since the USA betrayed them. Well, Trump did – sorry Canada. We are no longer reliable friends to anyone in the world.

  8. Your closest and most dependable trade partner wants to divest from you as much as possible. Germany now trades with China more than they trade with the US.

    The age of US trade dominance is over.

  9. The whole world will shift toward china. The whole world sees china as a more stable and reliable leader than the US. And eventually the whole world will be China. Whether this is good or bad only time will tell.

    But maybe, by swallowing the world, the world will change China from the inside.

  11. Don’t blame them, Trump’s administration has turned into an abusive relationship.

  12. The fact is that Canada should have done 40 years ago what we are being forced to do now. Not out of spite or hurt feelings but simply out of strategic necessity so as not to be in a vulnerable position and overly reliant on trade with one nation. We mixed up mutually beneficial interests with something that nations never have: “friendship”.

    This pivot and de-coupling will honestly be the work of a generation and the next 3-5 years will be a hard grind for us here in Canada. We need to pivot from a disproportionate North-South economic alignment to include and greatly expand an East-West alignment which enables trade to include a wider range of more coherent, predictable, reliable and trustworthy partners.

    There will always be some degree of trade and other agreements between Canada and the US due to proximity and certain geographical imperatives. Such cannot be avoided, but all will revert to purely transactional and framed within a coherent and robust set of guardrails,

    The irony is that if the US had engaged with Canada starting back in January of this year in a collaborative and mutually beneficial manner, the US would have found a willing partner and CUSMA would have been strengthened and expanded. And at some point in the relatively near future, a customs union and even a single currency would have been considered and possibly even adopted.

    Instead, here we are with rapidly deteriorating relations, a hardening border and fundamental and most likely, irreconcilable differences in an erstwhile solid relationship. We are probably now at the point of no return to any sense of normalcy; heightened emotions and a fundamental betrayal of what was, at least from Canada’s perspective, a mutually beneficial relationship of decades. A conscious and protracted effort to harm Canada in existential terms, whilst threatening annexation and our sovereignty, will not be forgotten.

    Unfortunate but here we are.

  13. Canada has strong leadership, the rest of the world should follow their lead 🇨🇦

  14. He’s not perfect, but he’s got an argument to be the man who saved Canada from the United States.

  15. One of the best Western leaders today. Canada has really lucked out this time.

    All business and no useless antics.

  16. It’s almost as if the dumbest people possible are creating our trade policy and forgot all about China. Who could have seen China stepping in to fill the gaps?

  17. We are just doing what Trump wants. We are lowering are trade imbalance. The more trade we have with other countries the more our trade with the US will balance out.

    Why would the US be upset about us doing this?

  20. Trump lies when he says Reagan was pro-tariff. He was strongly pro-free trade. Tariffs were exclusively an exception policy to address anti-market conduct.

  21. Rest of the world needs to stop trading with the US. Companies are free to come to Canada.. 

  25. Meanwhile, America’s carny demolishes the East Wing in hopes of burying the Epstein Files in the wreckage.

  26. This is why I’m okay with reducing tariffs. With using the Reagan ads as an example of them not working, even though I hate Ford, and with Carney working hard the past few months and the future to diversify trading, this is exactly what needs to happen.

    There is a lot of work still that needs to be done obviously and will take a few years for us to really reap this hard work, but it will be worth it for us and the other partners we develop a stronger relation to, with the added bonus of removing tariffs. Remember we criticize Trump for using them, so it makes sense to move away from something that just makes products more expensive from us.

    I do sincerely believe that PP would have removed the tariffs and signed a terrible deal with Trump. Let’s focus on new business rather than dealing with a guy who will rip up any agreement we actually DO sign with him at the slightest drop off a hat.

  28. Become allied with communists because it’s less worse than with Nazis…

  31. Again, the really sad thing about this is that whenever all of this madness ends and America settles back into democracy the damage will be done. All other developed nations will have moved on from aligning themselves with the US and found ways around depending on our military, economy, and cultural influence. We could vote Bernie Sanders in 2028 and still be so horribly behind he’d spend his entire tenure just starting to clean up the mess.

    I find it hard to believe I will ever be able to forgive Trump voters for this. Not all of you are MAGA, but you supported MAGA anyway. Shame on all of you.

  32. Divest, Divest, Divest, start trade talk with China, with India , South Korea, Japan, and South East Asian countries. I’m sure these countries would be glad to take in Canadian resources and agriculture goods. Their population should provide a decent size market. Reduce our dependency on the US, and deregulate industries to enable rapid growth… Time is at stake, and environmental and social welfare can wait for now. if the Canadian economy collapses, we won’t able to fund these program anyway.

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