The Economist

Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist.

I'm Rosie Bloor.

And I'm Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

You might think that with Donald Trump's somewhat maverick style of diplomacy,

China would be on a charm offensive right now.

Our correspondent tells us why that doesn't quite seem to be happening.

And our culture editor reviews a new book that's part of a wave of dystopian fiction. It considers the nexus between technology, personal freedom, criminality.

What's unsettling about it is how easily that fiction could be the future. But first... Many Canadians, citizens, and businesses, seem to be leaning into a deep but playful anti-Donald Trump vibe.

The latest wheeze, Moosehead, one of Canada's oldest breweries, has unveiled the presidential pack,

crates of 1,461 beers, one a day until the end of Mr. Trump's term.

His policies and his threats are now at the center of an election campaign that got underway this

week. After Justin Trudeau's resignation, Mark Carney won the party leadership race, and in just a

week, he called a snap election. I've just requested that the Governor General dissolved Parliament and call on an election

for April 28th.

That pits his Liberal Party against the Conservatives in what is really mostly a two-horse race.

But after the lost liberal decade, the question is whether Canadians can afford

a fourth liberal term. Pierre Poitleev leads that conservative party, and until very recently,

he led the polls by a lot. The campaign has been completely turned on its head over the last six,

seven weeks, because of the threat. Donald Trump represents to Canada's economic prosperity, its security, its independence.

Rob Russo is our Canada correspondent.

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