Canadá descarta acuerdo comercial con China tras advertencia de Trump

Canadá aclara que no firmará un acuerdo de libre comercio con China tras las amenazas de Trump.

SN Redacción | EFE

Washington.- El primer ministro canadiense, Mark Carney, dijo este domingo que su país no tiene intención de firmar un acuerdo de libre comercio con China después de que su homólogo estadounidense, Donald Trump, amenazara con imponer aranceles del 100 % al país vecino si firmaba un pacto comercial de esta naturaleza con Pekín.

«En virtud del T-MEC (tratado comercial trilateral que incluye a México, Canadá y EE.UU.), tenemos el compromiso de no buscar acuerdos de libre comercio con economías que no sean de mercado sin previa notificación. No tenemos intención de hacerlo con China ni con ninguna otra economía que no sea de mercado», explicó Carney en declaraciones a medios.

Sus palabras llegan un día después de que Trump dijera en redes sociales que si Canadá pacta un marco de libre comercio con China le impondrá «un arancel del 100 % a todos los bienes y productos canadienses que entren en EE.UU.».

Carney critica coerción de las grandes potencias

El primer ministro canadiense especificó que el objetivo de los acuerdos alcanzados en su reciente visita a Pekín es «corregir algunos problemas que surgieron en el último par de años» en los intercambios con el gigante asiático en sectores como el agrícola, el pesquero o el de vehículos eléctricos, y recordó que Ottawa acaba de acordar una cuota anual máxima de 49.000 de estos coches para que entren en Canadá con aranceles reducidos.

«Esto es totalmente coherente con el acuerdo de T-MEC, con nuestras obligaciones, que respetamos profundamente en el marco de dicho acuerdo», añadió el primer ministro canadiense.

Al ser preguntado hoy en televisión por qué Trump, que hace menos de diez días se mostró favorable a un acuerdo Canadá-China, ha cargado de repente contra Ottawa, el secretario del Tesoro estadounidense, Scott Bessent, pareció apuntar al reciente discurso de Carney en el Foro Económico de Davos.

«No estoy seguro de qué está haciendo el primer ministro Carney, aparte de intentar aparentar ser virtuoso ante sus amigos globalistas en Davos. No creo que esté haciendo lo mejor para el pueblo canadiense», dijo Bessent en una entrevista con la cadena ABC.

En su alocución en Davos, Carney afirmó que las potencias medias deben trabajar juntas para resistir el acoso y la coerción económica de las grandes potencias.

Aunque en ningún momento nombró a Trump, muchos analistas apuntan a que sus palabras han podido enojar al presidente estadounidense.

La réplica de Trump

Por su parte, Bessent subrayó en ABC que Ottawa está obligada a cumplir con las obligaciones del T-MEC y se mostró favorable a imponer gravámenes del 100 % a Canadá si el país vecino se va a convertir «en una puerta de entrada para que los chinos inunden EE.UU. con sus productos baratos».

Las palabras de Carney no parecieron a su vez contentar a Trump, que replicó este domingo en redes sociales diciendo que «China está tomando el control total y absoluto del que fuera el gran país de Canadá» y que «Canadá se está autodestruyendo sistemáticamente» y «el acuerdo con China es un desastre para ellos». –sn–

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In at least one part of #Canada, #Quebec, analysts and politicians roasted a seemingly ill-judged speech by #Carney, proving he hasn't been winning EVERYTHING after #Davos triumph! https://montrealgazette.com/news/provincial_politics/carneys-plains-of-abraham-remarks-show-historic-error-roberge via @MtlGazette

In at least one part of #Canada, #Quebec, analysts and politicians roasted a seemingly ill-judged speech by #Carney, proving he hasn't been winning EVERYTHING after #Davos triumph! montrealgazette.com/news/provinc... via @mtlgazette.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Carney's Plains of Abraham rem...

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Carney’s Davos Shockwave: Europe And Canada Now Treated Like The “Third World”

Carney’s Davos Shockwave: Europe And Canada Now Treated Like The “Third World”

By Uriel Araujo

Canada’s prime minister openly acknowledged at Davos that global rules no longer govern world affairs. With Europe and Canada now openly facing pressures once reserved for the Global South, attention turns to BRICS and other alternative frameworks amid US overreach.

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered what may well go down as one of the most revealing speeches ever given at the World Economic Forum in Davos. In unusually straightforward terms, Carney conceded that the so-called “rules-based international order” has not merely weakened but has effectively collapsed, insisting that we are “in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.”

Coming from the head of government of a loyal US ally, this admission matters. It signals that a fiction long sustained by diplomatic ritual has finally exhausted its usefulness.

With the US in mind, Carney argued that great powers have increasingly weaponized economic integration itself. Tariffs, financial coercion, sanctions regimes, and fragile supply chains have become tools of statecraft, thereby exposing the limits of extreme globalization. Much of the address could have been spoken by any number of Global South leaders, and yet this diagnosis was partially echoed by other Western leaders in Davos, who acknowledged the fading of post-World War II norms amid rising great-power rivalry.

For instance, France’s Emmanuel Macron denounced the shift toward a “world without rules”, where “the only law that seems to matter is that of the strongest.” Germany’s Friedrich Merz in turn declared that the “old world order over” is “unravelling.”

Carney’s emphasis, however, was sharper: quoting Finland’ President Alexander Stubb, Carney called for a “values-based realism,” urging middle powers to build resilience together or risk subordination: “If we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.”

Many analysts and leaders outside the Atlantic bubble have argued for years that this “order” functioned selectively. International law has indeed been rigorously enforced against the West’s adversaries while quietly ignored when allies crossed red lines. What Carney did was to articulate openly and eloquently what had long been underreported in Western discourse: the erosion of the order is not a temporary crisis but arguably the predictable outcome of decades of instrumentalized legality.

Yet the irony is unmistakable. Canada and Europe are only now discovering the fragility of norms once assumed to be permanent, precisely because those norms no longer protect them, with the colonial US-European relationship increasingly turning into open enmity, a trend I highlighted in 2024. One may recall that it was Joe Biden (not Trump) who waged a “subsidy war” against Europe’s industry via the Inflation Reduction Act, while advancing American energy interests to the detriment of the European continent. At the time, Macron warned Biden the issue could “fragment the West”, while describing the subsidies as “hyper aggressive” towards European companies.

Be as it may, this sudden realism in Davos feels deeply hypocritical. When similar critiques came from Africa, Latin America, or West Asia, or Russia, for that matter, they were dismissed as cynicism or propaganda. Now, confronted with economic coercion and strategic marginalization, Western Middle Powers and former Great Powers such as France (a declining neocolonial power) are relearning old lessons under new conditions.

In this context, Trump’s much-touted “Board of Peace” exemplifies one proposed model for the emerging order, albeit not a very serious one. Launched in September 2025 to oversee Gaza’s “reconstruction” under UN Security Council Resolution 2803 (in a manner that already showed a neocolonial eye), it has since morphed into a global conflict-mediation body. Trump serves as chairman, alongside figures such as Marco Rubio, Tony Blair, and Jared Kushner, while permanent seats require a $1 billion buy-in.

Critics describe it as a pay-to-play imperial club designed to bypass the UN, with no reference to the UN Charter and sweeping powers concentrated in Trump’s hands. The American leader revoked Canada’s invitation shortly after Carney’s Davos speech.

Washington’s approach has framed Canada and Europe much like the West has long treated the “Third World”. The difference is that now, with Trump, tariffs and even annexation threats, as with Greenland, are deployed, with little regard for “allied” sensitivities; Europe and Canada are thus finally discovering what dependency means. The wider context is a declining US whose escalating aggressiveness increasingly reads as overcompensation for eroding power and the need to withdraw from Eastern Europe and part of the Middle East and Central Asia.

The question, then, is what fills the vacuum left by the eroded order. If this is indeed a rupture rather than a transition, incremental reforms will not suffice. Trump’s own improvisations, clumsy as they are, highlight the limits of unilateral or club-based solutions imposed from above. Attention then turns to alternative groupings such as BRICS, which are increasingly positioned to play a counterbalancing role.

Launched in 2009, BRICS has expanded rapidly, now encompassing roughly 45% of the world’s population. It challenges the World Bank and IMF through the New Development Bank while advancing de-dollarization. Analysts see BRICS less as an anti-Western bloc than as a hedge against US instability and a vehicle for South-South cooperation; its internal diversity limits cohesion but may also be its strength. Thus, its expansion is widely viewed as a watershed for empowering the “global majority,” no wonder it has drawn sustained interest across the Global South. To handle the new challenges it will need to further  reinvent itself, while other frameworks may also arise or evolve.

The emerging polycentric order may thereby fragment into a number of spheres: a weakened US-centric one anchored in Trump’s Board of Peace, a BRICS-centred sphere advancing multipolar coordination, and hybrid middle-power networks. This fragmentation brings risks but also space for diversified alliances. It gives Europe too an opportunity to reinvent itself

To sum it up, the age of rhetorical innocence is over. The “rules-based international order” has been named for what it was and how Middle Powers will navigate this dangerous rupture/transition will depend on emerging frameworks doing better; if not morally, realistically and pragmatically.

Uriel Araujo, Anthropology PhD, is a social scientist specializing in ethnic and religious conflicts, with extensive research on geopolitical dynamics and cultural interactions.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.

#BRICS #Canada #China #Davos #Europe #Geopolitics #GlobalSouth #Multipolarity #Russia #USA #WorldEconomicForum

Týden na trzích podle burzovních grafů: Index S⅋P 500 mírně klesl, býci ale #Davos nakonec ustáli 🔗↗️ #akcie #WallStreet 🔗↗️
https://www.investicniweb.cz/akcie/316857-technicka-analyza-sp-500-vix-23-1-2026

Asamblea LGBTIQ+ marchará el 7F y cuando se trate la reforma laboral, piden paro general - https://www.laizquierdadiario.com/Asamblea-LGBTIQ-marchara-el-7F-y-cuando-se-trate-la-reforma-laboral-piden-paro-general
Por: Sofía Achigar

#LaIzquierdaDiario #Noticias #Lgtbiq #JavierMilei #Davos #ReformaLaboral #LGTBIQ #GénerosYSexualidades #Juventud #MundoDeLesTrabajadores

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Honestamente, o que vi uma quantidade de líderes políticos a ser menosprezado, gozado em público e em direto e a bater palmas... não vi nenhuma reação digna de nota desde então às afirmações humilhantes.
Não preciso de líderes que sejam eles os atacantes, mas precisamos de líderes que pelo menos exigem respeito.
#politica #davos #trump #ue

At Davos2026, deeptech moved beyond futurism. This year’s World Economic Forum brought a clear message: advanced technology isn’t a question of if — it’s about how it’s governed, operated, and integrated into real systems.

Among the highlights:
- LatticeFlowAI shaping evidence-based AI governance
- Regional governments like Telangana becoming deeptech operators.

Full analysis: https://www.movetheneedle.news/brands/davos-2026--deeptech-s-moment-of-truth---from-ideas-to-institutions/
#deeptech #AI #robotics #governance #technology #innovation #business #davos

"Davos is meant to be discussing solutions, but this year ended up revealing all the problems."
#CaolanRobertson #Oekraine #Davos

This week Europe changed forever
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IlMTZWDZtdw&si=9cyH8qKlsLjoFXjH

Trump says he’ll use ‘negative’ poll in $15 billion lawsuit against media outlet
Trump says he’ll use ‘negative’ poll in $15 billion lawsuit against media outlet
#Donaldtrump #Davos

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Long-range weather forecast Davos (1590m). Today -7.2/-0.2°C https://skiweather.eu
#skiweather #snowforecast #Davos

Spannender Einblick in #davos während des #wwf.

Tech and Tales: #64 Davos Recap: what happens in Davos sieht die ganze Welt

Webseite der Episode: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/elisabeth-lorange/episodes/64-Davos-Recap-what-happens-in-Davos-sieht-die-ganze-Welt-e3e3kic

Mediendatei: https://anchor.fm/s/fc0d91b4/podcast/play/114462732/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-0-23%2F416716430-44100-2-3647c954cf04c.m4a

"We are taking the sign out of the window. We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn't mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy, but we believe that from the fracture, we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just. This is the task of the middle powers, the countries that have the most to lose from a world of fortresses and most to gain from genuine cooperation."

~ #MarkCarney, #Davos

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/davos-2026-special-address-by-mark-carney-prime-minister-of-canada/

U.S leaders brag to the world about exploiting workers

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Global Elite: Invest in the strongest exploitation machine on Earth.

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Rinse and Repeat: Western allies ready for next rollercoaster with Donald Trump
Rinse and Repeat: Western allies ready for next rollercoaster with Donald Trump
#Donaldtrump #Davos

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Het woord duurzaamheid werd tijdens een week van topoverleg tijdens het World Economic Forum #WEF in #Davos niet één keer in de mond genomen. Dat stelt We Don’t Have Time, een Zweedse organisatie voor duurzaamheid en klimaat. Die organiseerde daarom zelf een presentatie, maar mocht dat niet binnen de muren van het event doen. Dus werd er vanaf een hoop sneeuw voor de deur gepresenteerd. https://www.duurzaamnieuws.nl/duurzaamheid-pijnlijk-afwezig-in-davos-nul-keer-besproken/

“Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing what ritual and ceremony could do.”*…

The estimable Henry Farrell, responding to thoughts from Adam Tooze (here and here) and Paul Krugman (here) in trying to make sense of what happened in Davos last week, draws on the thinking of Michael Chwe’s Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination and Common Knowledge (on why a game theoretic account of why ritual is important) to suggest that Europe and Carney disrupted Trump’s ceremony of self-anointment…

… I take two lessons from his book. First, that Davos fits very clearly into his definition of `ritual.’ Second, that rituals are important because they create common knowledge.

What we have seen at Davos over the last few days was an effort by the Trump administration to create new common knowledge in the world, an agreement that Trump was in charge, and that politics revolved around him. That effort has failed because of pushback from politicians, both Europeans who were furious at Trump, and Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney who gave a quite extraordinary speech. However, the result is most certainly not a decisive victory for Europe, Canada, and the other forces allied with them. Instead, it is one significant moment in a longer story of struggle and contention…

… Rituals often take place in consecrated places. British kings are crowned in Westminster Abbey. They also often take place at a particular time of the year (see churches and organized religion, passim). So it is not at all a stretch to see the Davos meeting as a ritual that is held in the same overcrowded place at much the same time every year. Like many rituals, its boredom and its ceremony go hand in hand. For many years, Davos’s most obvious social purpose was to reinforce the consensus about globalization, in predictable ceremonial language. Its very dullness and lack of surprise was a side effect of its power.

That was then; this is now. I don’t think that it is at all implausible to see Trump’s planned descent on Davos this year as a version of a royal progress (see Stacie Goddard and Abe Newman on “neo-royalism”). Swooping into Davos, and making the world’s business and political elite bend their knees, would have created collective knowledge that there was a new political order, with Trump reigning above it all.

Business elites would be broken and cowed into submission, through the methods that Adam describes. The Europeans would be forced to recognize their place, having contempt heaped on them, while being obliged to show their gratitude for whatever scraps the monarch deigned to throw onto the floor beneath the table. The “Board of Peace” – an alarmingly vaguely defined organization whose main purpose seems to be to exact fealty and tribute to Trump – would emerge as a replacement for the multilateral arrangements that Trump wants to sweep away. And all this would be broadcast to the world. Adam’s combination of stage, convening and acting would provide a means to shape the collective understanding of a global audience that Trump was now in charge.

That, of course, is not what happened. First, the Europeans were finally pushed to the point where they pushed back. As Belgium’s prime minister put it, “Living as a happy vassal is one thing, existing as a miserable slave is another.” It was clear that the Europeans were finally becoming willing to retaliate against Trump. That in turn had consequences for business.

As Adam suggests, businesses are unwilling to visibly step up to oppose Trump one on one. But businesses are not only individual participants in the ceremony. They are also members of a vast and depersonalized audience, via the anonymizing mechanism of the market, and, as Chwe suggests, it is the collective understanding of the audience that is most important. Just as the ouija board allows individuals to express their desires without being held accountable to them (thanks to the ‘ideomotor effect’ so too, the invisible hand of the market moves the planchette of stock prices in ways that no business can be held accountable for. When stock markets fall, even at the prospect of trade conflict between Europe and the United States, politicians pay attention. “Market fundamentals” (a loaded and problematic term) provided a very different understanding of the shared consensus than the one Trump sought to impose.

Second, Carney’s speech laid out an entirely different understanding of what was happening, and what had gone before. In his words:

Let me be direct: We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition. Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration. But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons. Tariffs as leverage. Financial infrastructure as coercion. Supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited.

… from Chwe’s more immediate perspective, what is more important than the vision of the past and future is where Carney said it and how he framed it. If you are planning a grand coronation ceremony, which is supposed to create collective knowledge that you are in charge, what happens when someone stands up to express their dissent in forceful terms?

The answer is that collective knowledge turns into disagreement. By giving the speech at Davos, Carney disrupted the performance of ritual, turning the Trumpian exercise in building common knowledge into a moment of conflict over whose narrative ought prevail…

… He wasn’t telling people anything that they didn’t know as individuals. He was, instead, turning that private knowledge into a putative collective understanding that countered the alternative collective understanding that Trump wanted to impose upon the world…

… The ceremony was disrupted by European threats of retaliation, which in turn led the market audience to express its unhappiness, and by Carney’s quite deliberate and self-conscious effort to crack the illusion of inevitability.

That does not mean that the Trump political project has been defeated. It is going to be very hard for Europe and Carney to build a viable counter-consensus. Already, Trump is looking to discipline Canada and seize back control of the narrative. What we have seen was a battle, not a war. But to appreciate the weapons that the battle was fought with, and understand the prize that was contended for, it is really helpful to emphasize the relationship between ritual and collective expectations. Chwe’s book is the clearest account of this relationship that I know of…

Eminently worth reading in full: “Davos is a rational ritual,” from @himself.bsky.social.

[Image above: source]

* Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

###

As we grapple with geopolitics, we might send illicit birthday greetings to Frank Costello; he was born Francesco Castiglia on this date in 1891. Having gotten his start in bootlegging during Prohibition, Costello became the head of the the Luciano crime family. a position he held (albeit for a few years in the 1950s remotely, as he served a federal prision sentence for tax evasion) until his retirement in 1957 after he had survived an assassination attempt ordered by Vito Genovese.

Costello had an “unusual” relationship with the man who could/should have been his primary antagonist, J. Edgar Hoover.

During the 1930s, Hoover persistently denied the existence of organized crime, despite numerous organized crime shootings as Mafia groups struggled for control of the lucrative profits deriving from illegal alcohol sales during Prohibition, and later for control of prostitution, illegal drugs and other criminal enterprises. Hoover [protested that] was reluctant to pursue the Mafia as he knew that organized crime investigations typically required excessive man hours while resulting in a relatively small number of arrests. He also feared that placing underpaid FBI agents—who had a starting annual salary $5,500 in the mid 1950s—in close contact with wealthy mobsters could undermine the FBI’s reputation of incorruptibility.

Many writers believe Hoover’s denial of the Mafia’s existence and his failure to use the full force of the FBI to investigate it were due to Mafia gangsters Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello‘s possession of embarrassing photographs of Hoover in the company of his protégé, FBI Deputy Director Clyde Tolson. [E.g., here] Other writers believe Costello corrupted Hoover by providing him with horseracing tips, passed through a mutual friend, gossip columnist Walter Winchell. Hoover had a reputation as “an inveterate horseplayer” and was known to send Special Agents to place $100 bets for him. Hoover once said the Bureau had “much more important functions” than arresting bookmakers and gamblers…

– source