“China – Communist Slave State” – Page 35

New Liberal government should scrap EV tariffs on China to help trade, climate goals, say critics

As Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, the federal government has its work cut out for it following a tumultuous few months in domestic politics — not just on the tariff front with the U.S., but also with the world’s second-largest economy.

In the fall, Canada followed in the footsteps of then-U.S. president Joe Biden in implementing an additional 100 per cent surtax on Chinese-made electric vehicles — a move critics say makes less sense now considering the fractured relationship with our southern neighbours, our climate goals and China’s counter-tariffs on Canadian canola farmers.

China is Happy, Carney is Happy, Carney’s Cronies are Happy, Canada’s China Class is Happy, Net Zero Loons are Happy and Danielle Smith is Canola Happy!

Orange Man Bad.

by Blazingcatfur•May 6, 2025May 6, 2025•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, USA

Kapow! China turns its back on Marvel movies

Among its retaliatory strikes for President Trump’s tariff war, Beijing targeted Hollywood movies, threatening to deny them Chinese ticket sales. It may not need to.

Initial figures for the latest Marvel superhero film, Thunderbolts* — the first Hollywood blockbuster to premiere in China since Trump’s “liberation day”, when his tariffs were announced — suggest local audiences will not need anything as official as a ban to stay away.

by Blazingcatfur•May 5, 2025May 5, 2025•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Hollywood, USA

Chinese-US Imports Being Diverted To Canada Amid Trade War

Many Chinese exports bound for the U.S. have been rerouted to Canada to skirt tariffs as the trade war continues to escalate between the U.S. and many of its international partners, Truenorth wire reports.

This means that, just like Europe which is facing a deflationary tsunami as Chinese dumping is unleashed on its now largest trading partner, Canadian consumers will soon have an abundance of discount goods as warehouse storage reaches its capacity.

As much as 50% of consignments from China were diverted to Canada in mid-April as many industries look to stockpile their inventory north of the border instead of in the US.

h/t DS

by Blazingcatfur•May 5, 2025May 5, 2025•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, USA

What a $15,000 Electric SUV Says About U.S.-China Car Rivalry

SHANGHAI—The offer sounds like a scam—a new Toyota electric-powered sport-utility vehicle for about $15,000, complete with sunroof and cup holders.

But the Toyota bZ3X is real, and it is actually on sale starting at that price. There is a catch: To buy one, you have to be in China.

Auto executives once dreamed of a world car that could be designed once and sold everywhere. That world has fractured, and nowhere more so than in the two biggest markets, China and the U.S., which together account fornearly half of global vehicle sales.

The comments are worth reading pointing out the many omissions made by the article.

by Blazingcatfur•May 5, 2025May 4, 2025•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", USA

China Now Controls Australia’s Elections

A little cautionary tale about mass migration and Chinese social media apps.

With days left to the election, Australian opposition candidates have been wooing a crucial group that turned its back on the conservative Liberal-National coalition in the last election: Chinese Australian voters.

And they are trying to reach them on platforms that their party once talked of banning over national security concerns: Chinese social media apps like WeChat and RedNote.

by Blazingcatfur•May 4, 2025May 3, 2025•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "Foreign Interference", Australia

The Future Is Dim for US–Canada Relations

How would the media react if Donald Trump had received a quarter of a billion dollars from Russia or China just prior to his presidential bid? It’s easy to guess: screaming headlines, indignant calls for impeachment, prosecution, demands for the electric chair. Every news anchor, political pundit, intelligence expert lining up to denounce the travesty with letters signed by infinite lists of former and acting national security officials, etc. And that’s for starters.

But progressive technocrat Mark Carney flies to Beijing to obtain $300M from the Bank of China four months prior to being appointed prime minister by Canada’s Liberal Party, calls snap elections, which he wins without a majority, and the media only praises him. Conservative rival Pierre Poilievre highlighted Carney’s compromised relations with China on nationally televised debates. He also pointed out how the former Bank of Canada governor and U.N. point man on climate change staunchly supported CCP-linked Liberal MP Paul Chiang, calling for goon squads to persecute opponents.

“They thought we couldn’t give money out to our friends while parliament was prorogued.” https://t.co/c50J7UFhAm pic.twitter.com/F4TOssKr8o

— Andy Lee (@RealAndyLeeShow) May 3, 2025

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•May 3, 2025May 3, 2025•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "Foreign Interference", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Canada Blocked DEA Request to Investigate Massive Toronto Carfentanil Seizure for Terror Links

WASHINGTON — A former top U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration official has come forward with explosive allegations that Canadian authorities obstructed a high-level DEA investigation into a 42-kilogram carfentanil seizure tied to a 2018 mass shooting in Toronto and, according to senior U.S. investigators, potentially linked to Pakistani threat networks and Chinese chemical precursor suppliers.

The DEA learned, after 29-year-old Faisal Hussain’s shooting rampage on Danforth Avenue—which left two people dead and thirteen more wounded—that his brother and a network with Pakistani links were connected to a historic seizure of carfentanil, a synthetic opioid 100 times more potent than fentanyl, in September 2017. The drugs were discovered in a suburban Pickering home, alongside specialized equipment consistent with a transnational trafficking operation.

by Blazingcatfur•May 3, 2025May 2, 2025•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Pakistan, terror attack, terrorism, Terrorism - financing, USA, WTF?

Election Outcomes for Candidates or Ridings in Beijing’s Crosshairs

Some of Beijing’s top critics in Parliament were re-elected this week, but a Conservative candidate said by authorities to be targeted by a Chinese regime operation lost his bid to sit in the House of Commons.

There is no evidence so far that Joe Tay fell short because of the Chinese regime’s efforts, but in the lead-up to the vote, election security officials had warned he was the victim of a transnational repression operation.

by Blazingcatfur•May 1, 2025April 30, 2025•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "Foreign Interference", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Winning: China Caves to Trump on Tariffs Again

In a stunning reversal that validates President Donald Trump’s hardline stance, China caved on Tuesday and lifted its punitive 125% tariff on American ethane imports.

The communist regime had desperately slapped this tariff on U.S. ethane earlier this month in a failed attempt to counter Trump’s brilliant Liberation Day tariff offensive. Obviously, it couldn’t sustain the tariff — China depends on American ethane for its survival, gobbling up about half of our total ethane exports annually, according to federal energy data.

by Blazingcatfur•April 30, 2025April 30, 2025•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

China’s Intent Is to Master AI and Fusion Power: It’s Not What They Say, It’s What They Are Doing

There is an old adage many of us heard from our parents, “It’s not what you say, it’s what you do.”

So when China creates military equipment that demonstrates a growing skill at an amphibious invasion, it would be best to ignore their rhetoric and concentrate on what they are doing to create the skills, tactics and ability to invade that democratic bastion across the Taiwan Strait.

by Blazingcatfur•April 29, 2025April 29, 2025•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

China Just ‘Folded’ in the Trade War

China, according to Reuters and Financial Times reporting on April 25, is not uniformly imposing its new 125% across-the-board tariff on American goods. In short, certain imports from the U.S. are in fact coming in tariff-free. Beijing’s new policy has not been announced and is not official.

“Companies in sectors including aviation and industrial chemicals said that some of their products had already been granted a reprieve, while local media reported that some semiconductors had been spared tariffs,” the Financial Times noted.

American Chamber of Commerce in China President Michael Hart told Reuters that some pharmaceutical company members of his organization had said they were now able to import products tariff-free.

by Blazingcatfur•April 27, 2025April 27, 2025•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "Liberation Day", USA

U.S. Charges Chinese and British Nationals in FBI Sting Over Harassment of Xi Critic in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES — Serbian authorities have arrested two foreign nationals, Cui Guanghai, 43, of China, and John Miller, 63, of the United Kingdom, at the request of the United States, federal officials announced Thursday.

by Blazingcatfur•April 26, 2025April 26, 2025•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "Foreign Interference", USA

Trump is winning the global energy game

The Trump administration is full of contradictions. Last Tuesday, the US President said that while some movement might be possible, high tariffs will remain on most Chinese goods. On Thursday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that US tariffs on China are unsustainable.

Related …

Wrong. The U.S. has not eliminated tariffs on Chinese goods and has, in some cases, increased them.

Look at the smoke, don’t listen to the noise.

Reuters’ story here. https://t.co/aY3VIuJLMx

— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) April 25, 2025

by Blazingcatfur•April 26, 2025April 25, 2025•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

China Helping the Houthis Attack U.S. Navy Vessels

“We can confirm the reporting that Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co., Ltd. (CGSTL) is directly supporting Iran-backed Houthi terrorist attacks on U.S. interests,” State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said on April 17th at her regular press briefing

Specifically, CGSTL has been providing targeting data and probably raw satellite imagery to the Houthis for their attacks on U.S. Navy vessels in the Red Sea.

China did not issue a clear official denial of the State Department charge.

by Blazingcatfur•April 25, 2025April 25, 2025•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

How Beijing is fuelling Putin’s war and Kyiv’s diplomacy

It’s the summer of 2023 and Ukrainian troops are furiously digging trenches under Russian fire in the pine forests outside Kreminna. Suddenly, a rocket crashes to the ground, and Zhakhar, a special forces sergeant, shouts at his troops to retreat to the car.

It was a dispiriting pushback, but at least it gave him a chance to inspect his latest battlefield trophy. Examining two boxes in his hand, he saw markings that were not Russian, but clearly Chinese.

by Blazingcatfur•April 24, 2025April 24, 2025•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "Ukraine - Russia"