This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

Gordon Chang, I've Gordon G. Chang, my colleague and co-host and friend, and we're very interested in the thoughts of Charles Burton of synopsis.

He's in Ottawa and Canada looking at an article at the Globe and Mail, which is a major think-tank newspaper in Canada,

about the relationship between the U.S. and Canada, much in the news because of the tariff threats by the Trump administration, and the

response by the newly re-elected Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney. He was chosen by the

Liberal Party, became Prime Minister, then he was chosen by the Canadian people and became

Prime Minister again. This all involves China. We begin with this article by Julian Cargassian and Robin

Chabon in the Globe and Mail, which is looking at a future bypassing trade with the U.S.

and opening up the trade routes east and west. That would be China and Europe.

Charles, a very good evening to you. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

What do we know about these two writers? They are identified as special advisor to the Department of France, Canada,

and I'm visiting a lecturer at the Department of Economics at

McGill University. This is a very thoughtful piece, but it looks to be iconoclastic, I would say,

would be one version of it, to challenge assumptions about where Canada's future lies. Good evening

to you, Charles. Good evening. Well, I do think that both of those

authors are well connected to the elements within the Canadian government that are strongly

pro-strengthening economic ties with China. I mean, there's always been a split within the cabinets of Canada, whether they're

liberal or conservative, as to where Canada's priorities with regard to China lie. Are they

in building Canadian prosperity through increased engagement with China? Or should Canada be more concerned about the longer-term threat to

Canadian sovereignty and security of Chinese demands?

So this article doesn't seem to mention much about security and sovereignty and is more focused on the necessity for Canada to engage much more

strongly with China in the face of the downturn in trade relations with the United States.

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