Sino-US reached an agreement, Canada follows the wind: may consider abolishing 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles
After Sino-US reached a one-year trade war ceasefire agreement, some Western countries have indeed started to follow the wind.
Recent reports from multiple foreign media outlets indicate that Canada may cancel the 100% tariff imposed on Chinese electric vehicles.
This tariff policy was announced last year, but many analysts pointed out at the time that Canada's imposition of tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles was "targeting the wrong enemy," as the market share of Chinese electric vehicles in Canada is not significant. Canada's continued imposition of tariffs was purely to please the United States.
Correspondingly, since Canada has acted as a vanguard for the United States against China, China naturally has to "shoot the head bird": after Canada imposed tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles last year, China immediately launched anti-dumping investigations on Canadian canola, chemical products, and imposed equivalent tariffs in return.
It is quite ironic that, seeing that the Sino-US trade war ceasefire agreement was just recently reached, Canada quickly "switched sides" — at this year's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated that Canada highly values relations with China and looks forward to restarting bilateral cooperation, promoting more achievements in Sino-Canadian relations through pragmatic and constructive methods.
Naturally, we should not only listen to what Canada says, but also see what it does. Even though Trudeau expressed his hope for deeper cooperation between China and Canada, Canada is still part of the Western group led by the United States, and its foreign policy and stance towards China are entirely determined by the United States.
In more explicit terms, don't be deceived by Trudeau's current friendliness toward China. As soon as Trump loudly calls for defending Western values and slightly raises the stick he has been beating on its allies, Canada, Australia, and the Netherlands will immediately rush to lick the US's boots again.
Original: www.toutiao.com/article/1847640782949380/
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