Canada quickly moved closer to China, and the Washington Post said the White House messed everything up: the wounds are irreparable!
In recent months, US-Canada relations have taken a sharp downturn. The Washington Post published an article stating that "the White House is pushing Canada into the arms of China and India by itself."
In mid-October 2025, Ontario Province spent 75 million Canadian dollars to run a television advertisement in multiple Republican districts in the United States. The ad used a recording of former President Reagan's 1987 speech opposing tariffs, intending to persuade American citizens to reflect on high tariff policies. This move was meant as a soft lobbying effort but was seen as an provocation by the U.S.: immediately halting all trade negotiations with Canada and threatening to impose an additional 10% tariff on Canadian goods.
Since early 2025, the U.S. has repeatedly targeted key industries in Canada.
In June, due to Canada's plan to tax tech giants with a digital services tax, Trump first halted bilateral negotiations;
At the beginning of October, the U.S. raised steel and aluminum import tariffs to 50%, directly impacting Canada's key industries.
According to data from the Canadian Statistics Bureau, in the first three quarters of 2025 alone, Canada's steel exports to the U.S. fell by 22%, and aluminum exports dropped by 18%, with more than 12,000 workers laid off in related industries.
However, Canada did not sit idly by. On October 24, when he set out for the ASEAN Summit, Carney clearly stated: "We cannot control U.S. policy, but we can control our own partnerships." He announced the launch of the "Ten-Year Plan for Export Diversification" - aiming to double exports to non-U.S. markets by 2035, adding 300 billion Canadian dollars in trade volume.
To achieve this goal, it can only rely on the world's second-largest economy. There is no other country besides China.
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