Comment by nielsbot
19 days ago
Interesting that Canada agreed to break with the US on EV tariffs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648778
It's limited but I feel like Canada aligning themselves at all with China over the US is an interesting development.
It's a good point but imo not really surprising when the President of the United States essentially threatened to invade Canada and Greenland.
This is classic multipolar politics, trade the two behemoths against each other so they don't roll over one day and just squish you. By alienating Canada and Europe we've handed China a great gift.
It's only getting started. Do you think Europe is going to use American networking equipment when America has shown that it will use its military against Europe? American grid technology?
And what about all those huge pending orders for F35 in ... Denmark and Canada? Etc.
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Europe is stuck with American tech with no real alternatives in the horizon. Europe doing an independent stack is just wishful thinking.
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Wasn’t there a report in the last 10 years about China accounting for a huge portion of property sales in Canada? I thought I remembered seeing it was as high as 30% in some areas.
30% of house sales in Canada are not purchased in China, no.
Found the article. Vancouver specifically.
I believe this led to some legislation in 2023 to prevent or reduce foreign home buyers?
https://vancouversun.com/business/local-business/chinese-inv...