1、This time around, with Trump's tariff hikes, we find that apparently Mexico is tougher than Canada.

As a national leader, Claudia Sheinbaum is clearly more mature and qualified than Justin Trudeau.

The Mexican president said Mexico could respond to any of Donald Trump's tariffs with tariffs of its own on US products.

Here Mexico's biggest bargaining chip is that they can replace imports from the US with imports from China.

And Canada has done nothing but call an emergency meeting.

In fact, there are not many goods that need to be imported from the U.S. that cannot be replaced elsewhere.

If you think about it, there really aren't many items that you must purchase from the United States.

2、Canada's Justin Trudeau apparently screwed everything up. I've seen some Canadians claiming “we're wrong to rely entirely on the US, we should start doing business with China”

The truth is that while trade between China and Canada hasn't been great, relations between the two countries were actually pretty good until Justin Trudeau positioned himself as a little brother for the U.S. Democrats and started showing China some hilarious “political courage”.

Now that Canada is facing 25% U.S. tariffs, and has screwed up China-Canada relations themselves, the Liberal Party of Canada actually has very little political space - maintaining friendly relations with China was their only bargaining chip with the U.S., and they screwed it up -- it's called lifting a rock and hitting yourself in the foot.

The current Canadian government clearly lacks a long-term political plan, and they must now swallow the bitter fruit.

3、 Trump's trade war actually apparently has a plan of its own. My personal prediction is that (in addition to China) they will shoot at Canada and Mexico first, then Europe, Japan, and South Korea, then Southeast Asia, Latin America, and even the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa.

Shooting at Canada and Mexico is actually just the first step. The tariff war is a means not an end, Trump's personal goal is to force the US to restore the balance between imports and exports through political means and reduce the deficit to 0. But this plain and simple idea is ridiculous and childish because it will make the US dollar lose its status as the world's currency reserve.

4、Many politicians in US allied countries (like Europe) are just naive enough to think they are superior to third world countries in the US international system until the US takes a shot at them on trade. (and apparently Trump will do it)

If they were smart enough, they would have sent someone to China by now (and from what I've seen, many should have already done so)

It's going to be a big show, we'll see.

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1zLz8YQEVr

https://weibo.com/2656274875/P2mzqEGay

https://weibo.com/1663072851/P2niEffUy

Some of the first memories I have of elementary school in America was hearing kids ask “if we went to war with China, who would you fight for?” along with the usual slant eyed jokes. Those experiences shaped me for years to come, I ended up joining the American military as an infantryman during the height of GWOT. Many of my interactions with my peers was in an effort to prove how American I was. I would regurgitate propaganda mindlessly despite only having amazing memories of my impoverished Chinese hometown in the 90s. If the topic of China was brought up I made sure people knew that I stood with “freedom” and “democracy”.

I don’t think this is a unique experience. Recent polling data shows that the majority of Asian Americans have a positive impression of their homeland… Except for Chinese Americans. What chance do we stand when we’re bombarded from birth to hate the evil “CCP”? American culture asks Chinese Americans to continuously prove ourselves with every media frenzy regarding the CPC.

So what changed? I work a respectable job in medicine nowadays and live in a decent neighborhood. China has given me nothing while America has given me all these opportunities, right? Not really. It’s funny because although I grew up middle class I have many friends from more impoverished backgrounds. I think I began to realize something was very wrong the more we grew up and went our separate ways.

I won’t bore you with details, but the more I learned from American history, specifically about Black Americans and civil rights, the more this country disgusted me. The Black Panther Party, a Marxist group, was effectively massacred and imprisoned for… attempting to secure the basic needs of their community. MLK and Malcolm X were vehement anti capitalists and all had deaths with a heavy FBI handprint. To this day the inequality in America is so great that being Black in America condemns you to an uphill battle of higher maternal deaths, higher risks of environmental toxins, higher risks of deadly police confrontations, etc etc.

Contrast that with how China has halal food in every college campus, has eradicated extreme poverty, granted exclusions for ethnic minorities during the one child policy, etc. etc. “A rising tide lifts all boats” At some point the truth is an avalanche and you cannot deny it anymore. By every metric, from foreign intervention to domestic policy America has and continues to fail its people. China continues to set an example of how a superpower should conduct itself.

Maybe I’ll retire in China one day, but for now my life is too cemented in America. Sometimes I wish my parents hadn’t left China all those years ago but I understand why they did.

Life in America will unquestionably continue to get worse for people of Chinese descent. But I’m proud of the people of China and how far the CPC has brought it. The imperial empire’s propaganda can no longer make me hate my history or my people’s future.