The Americans know. They invented a lot of this stuff.
That is the strange part. The Americans will not listen to the ones who know.
Is it too late?
100% tariffs on Chinese cars. The sun don't shine with 100% tariffs.
As I have long believed, the unraveling of the American world order and the ensuing disarray among its allies—Canada included—demonstrate that America is struggling with how to appropriately compete with an adversary unlike any it has faced in its history as a Republic. The Soviet Union, despite its military might, was never the economic juggernaut that China is today, nor did it possess the population heft or market size that China commands. This is evident as we can witness in real time through the current American-led tariff war, where China is the only country that has meaningfully impacted the U.S. negatively. In technology, finance, diplomatic influence, economic leverage, and trade, the competition is frankly between these two superpowers.
Americans, including Canadians of all stripes, arrogantly assumed that China's opening up would succumb to the appeal of what we presumed were the everlasting virtues of becoming a 'democracy.' Had China followed this path, it might have resembled a giant Philippines or, worse, a very corrupt and dysfunctional India.
