OPINION
Our real trade enemy isn’t Canada — it’s China
By Rich Lowry
June 11, 2018 | 10:02pm | Updated
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Justin Trudeau may be the annoying, youthful avatar of chic progressivism — but he’s not our adversary.
After leaving the G7 summit, President Trump blasted the Canadian prime minister on Twitter as weak and dishonest, in the kind of invective once reserved for Little Rocket Man.
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The flare-up with Trudeau isn’t an encouraging sign for prospects of renegotiating NAFTA, which also should be viewed in strategic terms. As Derek Scissors of the American Enterprise Institute points out, the trade agreement could extend beyond North America to Britain, which is seeking a new trade arrangement as it exits the EU, and the Philippines and Taiwan, which are pressured by China.
“A completed NAFTA 2.0,” Scissors writes, “would provide the concrete foundation for rapid conclusion of comprehensive or partial trade agreements with these and other countries, while reassuring partners that the Trump administration is willing and able to move forward on trade if they are willing to meet some American demands.”
None of this will happen if Trump is determined to pursue a protectionist policy no matter what, or if he lets his pique at friends get the best of him. The trade war — and the fight for our paramount interests — won’t be won or lost against Justin Trudeau. Beijing, not Ottawa, is our enemy.
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