Canada should stay out of U.S. economic war on China

Canada should make it clear that it wants no part of the Trump administration’s bellicose trade policies and that it rejects the admiration’s view of trade as a zero-sum game.

International Trade Minister François-Philippe Champagne, pictured recently on the Hill. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

March 26, 2018

TORONTO—Canada should not to let a misguided and dangerous U.S. economic war on China become a Canadian war as well. For U.S. President Donald Trump and the paranoid protectionists advising him, China is “an economic enemy,” hence its planned (US)$60-billion in economic sanctions against China...

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