Trump's ways

Trump tweets, the world pays attention. I read earlier in the week that South Africa's parliament voted to seize and redistribute land from white land owners. Seemed like the change in law, or constitution, was concluded. The whole world was shaken. Then Trump tweeted that didn't seem good, he'd have to look into that. South Africa responded Trump should mind his own business then reversed their decision.

Justin Trudeau disses Trump when he was elected, saying, "As a feminist, I cannot tolerate that kind of behavior toward women." Such moral posing coming from a guy accused of doing what Trump bragged about what gold diggers allow. Later Trudeau dissed Trump again after Trump departed from the G7 meeting. But that was before European Union avoided a clash and before Merkel changed her attitude. Trudeau's foreign minister, Chrystia Freeland, who signs memos with smiley faces, and told the news services "It's good to have friends in high places" (to hem in Trump) gives the most vapid press conferences imaginable; we're working very hard, there's a lot of work, progressing very well, everyone has good attitudes and good feelings, it's very complex, we worked all day, it's very intense. We sure are working hard. We're concerned for Canadian worker. Except with pauses between each careful word sounding very shook up.

Trudeau and Freeland are caving. All of their politics with respect to trade with US right out the window.

They're come face to face with the reality of Trump and his team. The team is not messing around. Freeland pulled the powerplay of being late for their meeting but all that did was increase the intensity. This is all about realignment with China, and Canada is just one step to that end. Canada, suddenly odd man out,  can stop politicizing trade with America or they can accept crippling tariffs that achieve the same goal for America with respect to China. Canada is middle man in that NAFTA loophole. And Canada has already ceded its steel industry to China on the play of them slipping Chinese steel into the US through the NAFTA loophole. All of Canada can thrive though unimpeded trade with the United States, their own steel industries can thrive, their milk be less expensive, their finance services less expensive, for just a few examples, or they can wither through their own stubborn liberal messy politicizing. And just like South Africa, Mexico, European Union, although much slower on the uptake, China is paying very close attention, in fact, studying Trump's ways.

We observe Trump getting his pieces in place before taking on China directly. He's circling China. Trump can still make mutually beneficial bilateral deals with Canada, with England, with separate nations currently in the European union, with Japan. And then take on China. And behind all of that is separate deal with North Korea. That comes after China is defeated in its aspiration of global control.

What we're experiencing really is one for the books. Not just history books, these activities directed by Trump through his team will be studied in economic courses for the next several decades. Only to mention political science courses.

Here is Chrystia Freeland, journalism major, so far, so deeply out of her element that it isn't even funny.

But this is. (seen at Smalldeadanimals and at Lucianne)