Posted on 01/26/2026 11:26:26 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
Sir Keir Starmer recently tried to take credit for his role in Donald Trump’s partial climbdown on tariffs relating to Greenland. Whether he played any meaningful part is debatable.
What is beyond doubt, however, is that Donald Trump will happily reach for the tariff weapon again whenever it suits him. Even against long-standing allies, and especially against those he believes are acting against US interests.
Just look at Canada and the increasingly heated rivalry between Trump and the country’s prime minister, Mark Carney. The president last week threatened eye-watering tariffs of 100pc on all goods and services entering the US.
The trigger was a proposed agreement between Canada and China that would see lower tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and Canadian agricultural products.
For Trump, this was not simply a technical trade dispute. He accused Carney of wanting to turn Canada into a “drop-off port” for Chinese goods destined for the US. Whether fair or not, Trump has made clear he is prepared to unleash trade armageddon to prevent China gaining indirect access to the American market.
Carney insists he is merely cutting tariffs in a small number of sectors and that a wider trade deal is not on the cards. Trump so far seems unimpressed.
Which makes Sir Keir’s decision to head to China for five days in search of his own version of the Canada-China deal extraordinary.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Starmer is a fool, the leftist UK media just refuse to admit it.
The Telegraph did far too much typing. I’ll summarize: Carney and Starmer are both fools.
Would?
Follow the money...
Starmer is a leftist tool and an idiot. He’s the Newscum of the UK.
I don’t know if we “embraced” Beijing, we sent them some cooking oil and they dumped off some cars nobody wants.
But whatever. I would say more but I have to attend Mandarin lessons.
Importing in a bunch of junky Chinese spy devices on wheels isn’t a great idea.
They will give Chairman Xi an unobstructed view of homeless people breaking into cars, and later on, used car lots.
If that’s a security risk we’ll have to work around it.
Nobody on a military base is going to buy a Chinese electric car, it’s all pick-up trucks and old beaters.
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