Beijing — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney hailed a new “strategic partnership” with China during a meeting with leader Xi Jinping Friday, as the US ally took steps to reset ties with Beijing in the face of historic friction with Donald Trump.
Canada would ease tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and expected China to significantly reduce barriers tariffs on Canadian canola seed later this year, Ottawa said in a statement after the meeting – in a major step to ease long-standing trade tensions.
The prime minister’s visit this week had made clear Ottawa’s new objective: to move its economy closer to its second largest trading partner following a year in which Trump ratcheted up trade and political frictions with Canada, imposing sweeping tariffs and publicly musing about turning the country into the 51st US state.
Okay. Now I understand what you meant, but I still don’t see what point you’re getting at. China is in no way Communist.
My confusion stems from the fact that you absolutely refuse to clearly say what you mean, and instead make vague allusions to… something or other.
Is it really that hard to just clearly write out the argument you wish to make?
I was just saying most people don’t know. You clearly know.
It is not very common, even on Lemmy, to have people think that China is not actually practicing communism. Even though, for instance, they produced more billionaires than the US this year.
Ah, right. I finally understand what we’ve apparently been talking about. See, if instead you wrote: “I was just saying that most people don’t know that China isn’t Communist.” then everything would be immediately clear rather than a guessing game. I think you’d really help yourself be less easily misunderstood if you try to be mindful of whether your statements are fully qualified.
We’re trying our best, but humans aren’t telepathic. I’m not saying that you don’t know what you’re talking about, but the rest of us don’t – unless you tell us.
But we got there in the end, and it seems we’re now on the same page.
As I said in my original statement being most people are confused by what is really going on. They have been led astray not just about communism but a whole lot more than that.
You probably should have see this as complimentary, but I suppose I could see you personalizing this so my apologies.