Canada, the U.K., South Korea and other nations are getting cozy with Chinese leadership as a hedge against an unpredictable Trump administration. U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening retaliatory tariffs, citing Canada as a pressure-relief valve for Chinese overcapacity dribbling into the U.S. market. “The Chinese unrestricted warfare approach is much more societally comprehensive: it’s pushing out the Chinese shops and running the hospitals and all of that sort of stuff,” Cleo continues. “The Chinese economy is designed to be, when it comes into a country like Canada, fundamentally parasitic,” Cleo answers, without equivocation. If you’re a Chinese citizen, you are a hostage, an unwilling hostage, often, of the Chinese state.”Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementHow, I ask, does any nation counter this kind of power?

Source: National Post February 01, 2026 11:51 UTC