A Peek in as Canada Ducks: Dropping That China Trade Deal Like a Hot Won Ton

Hotair ^ | 01/26/2026 | Beege Welborn

[SeekAndFind]

Oh, Xi Jinping Pooh is not going to be very happy with Mark Carney, the globalist squish Prime Minister of Canada. 

It wasn't a week ago that the two of them were bestest broskis and the rest of the Western Hemisphere was going, 'You out your mind, dude? Or just having a Newsom moment?'

Even the Washington Post took a step back.

DUDE

Washington Post Editorial Board "But there is a fine line between “pragmatism” and naiveté which Carney has already started to blur. Carney and Xi did not simply agree to new trading parameters. They put on a show.

Frustrations with one American president need not give way to the agenda of dictators. “I had discussions with President Xi about the situation in Greenland, about our sovereignty in the Arctic, about the sovereignty of the people of Greenland and the people of Denmark,” Carney said. “And I found much alignment of views in that regard.”

What? There is universal agreement within NATO that the Arctic must be protected from China and Russia. Any suggestion that Ottawa and Beijing agree on geopolitical strategy concerning the Arctic is either deeply insincere or worryingly naive." https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/01/20/canada-carney-china-xi-trade/

pic.twitter.com/NUYtP64Mbu— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) January 20, 2026

Especially when Carney talked about how much common ground he and Xi had found discussing such important Chinese-Canadian issues as...Greenland.

And 'Canadian sovereignty.'

I FOUND MUCH ALIGNMENT

🇨🇦 PM ⁦@MarkJCarney⁩ tells the world about his strong agreement and alignment with President Xi of China on a range of foreign policy issues.
Carney lauds this, as he declared recently in China, the “New. World. Order.”
Theatric pauses after each word.
He is destroying 🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/FRmO3eVsAV— Vivian Bercovici (@VivianBercovici) January 18, 2026

Carney negotiated a wicked good deal with the Chinese while he was there. The Chinese got doors opened to run freely into Canada, while the Canadians got a larger market for pet food.

What a score.

BREAKING NEWS: Canada Signs Agreement with China

Big win announced:
🐾 Sending more pet food

What China did NOT agree to:
Buy Canadian oil
Buy Canadian LNG
Drop retaliatory tariffs
Fix canola exports

But hey the dogs and cats are eating well. pic.twitter.com/dg2FT1sHtM— Marc Nixon (@MarcNixon24) January 15, 2026

It had to be dog-eat-dog at the bargaining table as Carney charted a course with his new friends to that 'New World Order' he's so fond of.

...Carney is in China as part of his effort to move past years of diplomatic tension with Beijing and double non-U.S. exports over the next decade. He's expected to meet with China's President Xi Jinping on Friday. 

At this point, there is no sign of a breakthrough to drop or limit Beijing's retaliatory tariffs on Canada's agriculture industry, including canola, and Canadian officials won't say what they're willing to do to reach a resolution.

...Both countries also agreed to increase exports of Canadian pet food to China, improve tourism and re-upped previous agreements, including to combat crime.

"We're now in a new era of partnership with China," Industry Minister Mélanie Joly told journalists.

Carney told China's Premier Li Qiang at a meeting that teams in both countries have been working in recent months "to address some specific issues that have built up over time" and to "put in place the foundation for the new strategic partnership between" Canada and China. 

The progress made in recent months, Carney said, will help set Canada and China up "for the new world order."

What Carney had actually agreed to blew some minds. To send China more pet food and have them required to buy nothing in return but vague promises of canola oil later, Carney agreed to drop tariffs on Chinese EVs and let a boatload of the little spy machines on four wheels into Canada.

...To help deliver the full potential of these partnerships, and build up our domestic manufacturing sector, Canada will allow up to 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles (EV) into the Canadian market, with the most-favoured-nation tariff rate of 6.1%. This amount corresponds to volumes in the year prior to recent trade frictions on these imports (2023-2024), representing less than 3% of the Canadian market for new vehicles sold in Canada. It is expected that within three years, this agreement will drive considerable new Chinese joint-venture investment in Canada with trusted partners to protect and create new auto manufacturing careers for Canadian workers, and ensure a robust build-out of Canada’s EV supply chain. With this agreement, it is also anticipated that, in five years, more than 50% of these vehicles will be affordable EVs with an import price of less than $35,000, creating new lower-cost options for Canadian consumers.

Even the pugnacious premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, said 'Hey! Nobody asked me!'

Ford said it was going to be terrible for the automakers and their supply chains in his region, and letting loads of Chinese vehicles into Canada at a far better tariff than they charge their largest trading partner, the United States. He didn't see how that would go over too well with President Trump. 

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he wasn’t consulted at all by Prime Minister Mark Carney before the PM announced he would drop tariffs on Chinese EVs.

pic.twitter.com/9z1JP65BFv— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) January 16, 2026

Carney was thrilled. For a banker, he sure does suck at the #mathz.

He just destroyed a $1 trillion trade relationship with the US for a possible $3 Billion increase in Canadian exports to China over the next 5 years while removing the ban on Chinese investment in our energy sector.

But, you know. "Economic genius". https://t.co/UjZvLBjCqO— G.M. Forbes (@gmforbes35) January 16, 2026

Carney got his moment of New World Order glory at Davos right after that with a speech that thrilled globalists and TDS sufferers to the core ('one for the ages', the Financial Times gushed), shortly before having a verbal punt gun trained on him by the newly arrived President Trump for his craven crawling to Xi.

But Carney's preening only incensed Trump as further details of the Chinese 'trade' deal were revealed, and two days ago, the American president laid the hammer down.

You go right ahead, Trump said, but I've got tariffs, and I'm not afraid to use them.

...The new agreement has consequently sparked the ire of Trump. On January 24, he posted on his Truth Social platform: “If Canada makes a deal with China, it will immediately be hit with a 100% Tariff against all Canadian goods and products coming into the USA.”

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent echoed Trump’s remarks, telling ABC News yesterday that the US could not let Canada “become an opening through which the Chinese pour their cheap goods into the US”.

Trump was reportedly also angered by a speech Canada’s PM gave at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. In a special address on January 20, Carney had warned against economic coercion by the world’s superpowers.

Bessent spelled out the particulars regarding US objections so well, as he usually does.

Scott Bessent refused to accept ABC’s “trade war” framing — and he made that clear in seconds.

When Jonathan Karl suggested President Trump was picking a fight with Canada, Bessent flipped the script and pointed straight at Prime Minister Mark Carney’s China problem.

KARL: “Why… pic.twitter.com/JG0f3X4eLz— Overton (@overton_news) January 25, 2026

...KARL: “Why is Donald Trump threatening Canada with another trade war?”

BESSENT: “Prime minister carney came back, dropped some industry specific tariffs on Chinese goods and we have a highly integrated market with Canada.”

“He dropped the EV tariff from 100% to 6%, goods can cross the border during the manufacturing process six times.”

“We can’t let Canada become an opening that the Chinese pour cheap goods into the U.S.”

“We have a USMCA agreement, but based on that, which is renegotiated this summer, and I’m not sure what Prime Minister Carney is doing here, other than trying to virtue signal to his globalist friends at Davos, I don’t think he is doing the best job for the Canadian people.”

Carney tried a desperate 'it's not a gang, it's a club' backpedal yesterday, but it was too late. The pressure to scrap the deal was building on all sides, even from Ontario.

“We’ve seen what happens when cheap, Chinese vehicles enter Western markets,” says Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

Factories close.

Workers lose their jobs.

“That’s the risk Carney’s deal is creating in Ontario.” pic.twitter.com/28vwhsZrBI— Juno News (@junonewscom) January 21, 2026

Carney semi-pulled the plug with some weaselly language this afternoon.

THEY'RE MORE WHAT YOU'D CALL TARIFF RELIEF THAN ACTUAL TRADE DEAL STUFF

Mark Carney said Canada has no intention of pursuing a free trade deal with China. He was responding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 100% tariff on goods imported from Canada if America’s northern neighbor went ahead with a trade deal with Beijing. pic.twitter.com/CDlrRamnR1— The Associated Press (@AP) January 26, 2026

Gosh, he said, I'm so looking forward to working with our favorite trading partners in the whole wide world!

Canada’s centre-left Prime Minister Mark Carney has said his country will not pursue a trade deal with China following a threat of huge retaliatory tariffs from US President Donald Trump.

Speaking to reporters today, Carney said: “We have commitments under CUSMA [the Canadian term for the North American free trade agreement USMCA] not to pursue free-trade agreements with non-market economies without prior notification.

“We have no intention of doing that with China or any other non-market country.”

Yeah. But see, Carney hasn't said he is rescinding his decision on the Chinese EVs.

LOL. For the last week all you clowns were trumpeting the trade deal with China as a landmark agreement that will break us free of reliance on the US.

Now all of a sudden it really isn't a trade deal, and Canada is not pursuing one with China. It's just a little tariff relief.

pic.twitter.com/dNEg2Rj7zD— G.M. Forbes (@gmforbes35) January 25, 2026

I'm not sure what razzle-dazzle Carney thinks he's accomplishing, but it's definitely the wrong guy to try to bamboozle.

Trump wrote the book on the rules.

I bet he saw the movie, too.

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TOPICS: Canada; China; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; canuckcommies; carney; chicoms; china; commerce; northerncuba; trade; tradedeal; usmca

[Paladin2]

“Beege Welborn”

Sounds like an AI slop-bot....

[butlerweave]

You can be China doesn’t have to buy the oil but Canada had to buy the Spying Time Bomb EVs ,LOL

[BipolarBob]

Never had Peeking Duck, just saying.

[GOPJ]

What? There is universal agreement within NATO that the Arctic must be protected from China and Russia. Any suggestion that Ottawa and Beijing agree on geopolitical strategy concerning the Arctic is either deeply insincere or worryingly naive." https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/01/20/canada-carney-china-xi-trade/

OMG - what an idiot - - that's way beyond 'naive'....

[toddausauras]

Do not trust Carney. I bet he and China already made deals on the sly recently that hopefully 47 will sniff out.

[drypowder]

Neither Carney nor Xi Jen Ping can be trusted. I know, that’s not news.

[Peter ODonnell]

So explain this ... why is it okay for America to trade extensively with China but it’s a terrible thing for Canada to trade with China?

Obviously nobody could explain that because it’s an obvious case of hypocrisy in action. And it’s not like you do a little trade with China. Walmart built a trillion dollar business largely based on cheap Chinese goods.

So let’s have less of this transparently color-revolution talk, we’re not caving in and coming begging to you for inclusion into the United States.

ANYONE WHO WANTS TO BE AMERICAN IS ALREADY THERE!!!

And you don’t want them, so why would you want people who don’t want to be there?

[Peter ODonnell]

You know, I used to be very much opposed to trade with China and I still detest that regime, but every country in the world trades with them, it makes no sense to me for Americans (who trade a lot with China) criticize Canada for making deals with China. You already said we couldn’t sell stuff to you. So we’ll go out into the cold hard world and find people who will buy our products. And if that doesn’t suit you, too effin bad, it’s just so clear by now that a cabal of millionaires and billionaires run Trump and want him to take over Canada and any other country he can overwhelm with rhetoric and threats. We’ve seen through it and we’re going to fight back hard. Again, if you don’t like it, not my problem. I thought we were done with imperialism fifty years back. And you of all people should know the down side of this kind of approach, people fight back, they don’t roll over and play dead.

Sick and tired of it, and I think I will terminate my participation. If anyone has anything constructive to say, drop by my igloo, we can share a walrus steak or two.

Bye.

[Nervous Tick]

>> So we’ll go out into the cold hard world and find people who will buy our products.

What products, eh? Yer PET FOOD? ROFLMAO

Maybe you socialist freaks can become the world leader in MAID tourism and cremation! Of course you’ll be buying the urns from your new buttbuddy Xi.

Canada has lived into the South Park caricature of it. You’re a joke. A laughingstock.

[Dr. Sivana]

You can be China doesn’t have to buy the oil but Canada

Even if they did, oil is one thing that Canada exports that nearly EVERYONE wants to buy.