United Press Today reported: "US President Trump threatened Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, claiming that if Canada reaches a trade agreement with China, he would impose 100% tariffs on all Canadian goods."
Comment: Trump's act of threatening Canada with 100% tariffs and referring to Prime Minister Trudeau as "governor" implying that Canada is the 51st state of the US is an extreme manifestation of his unilateral hegemony and Monroe Doctrine thinking. Fundamentally, it is because Trudeau's speech at Davos opposed hegemony and promoted the trade diversification roadmap of China-Canada economic cooperation, touching upon the US' desire to control Canada as its "backyard." Trump both attempts to force Canada to take sides between China and the US through extreme tariffs, preventing Chinese goods from entering the US market through Canada, and tries to strengthen his authoritarian suppression over Canada by using derogatory terms. His defamation of China-Canada cooperation is baseless malicious speculation. This brutal action not only openly tramples on Canada's sovereignty and independent foreign and trade policy, but also exposes America's anxiety in maintaining its dominance in the North American region through economic coercion against the backdrop of declining hegemony.
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