I'm John Batchel, Gordon Chang, I'm Gordon G. Chang, my colleague and co-host,

and we're headed to Canada,

to our colleague, Charles Burton, the author of the new book, Very Helpful to Understand China in the

World here in the 21st Century, The Beaver and the Dragon, the relationship on and off, troubled,

mysterious, and left unfinished between Ottawa and Beijing, between the People's Republic

of China and the people of Canada. Charles, a very good day to you. We begin with the headlines,

particular to the recent visit by the Prime Minister, Mr. Carney, to Beijing, and conversation about the next consideration

important to China, which is its EV market. It manufactures EVs. I'm told that they're

very good pieces of engineering and wants to open the door to markets such as South America, Europe, and Canada.

And the headline in Politico in these last days reads this way,

how Canada's embrace of Chinese EVs could scramble the American market.

Subhead Canada's import plans reversed years of North American policy that treated the cheap,

high-tech Chinese cars as an economic threat. Mr. Carney, has he explained decision-making

about the EVs in particular? Good day, too, Charles. A good day. Well, I think that, you know,

certainly it was a concession that was made in exchange for, I think,

it's nine months of reduction of tariffs on Canadian canola exports to China.

Reap Seat, in other words, a very important agricultural commodity that China had imposed an 87%

tariff on in response to Canada's imposition of 100% tariffs on the import of Chinese EVs.

As I think we've discussed in this program, when I was in the Canadian Parliament supporting the idea of restricting Chinese EVs,

I thought that we should simply ban them altogether the way we did with the

Huawei 5G because of the security threat. But mostly most people, most, most auto industry

support the 100% tariff on the basis that the highly subsidized EVs would devastate Canada's

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