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[Czech_pivo]

Back to dealing with China on defence stuff.

Canada Has Reopened Military Channel to Beijing After Eight Years, China's Defense Ministry Announces

Op-Ed: A military channel Canada shelved after Beijing took two Canadians hostage is back in service. Carney did not campaign on it.

www.thebureau.news

Canada Resumes Defense Talks With China After 8-Year Hiatus

Canada Resumes Defense Talks With China After 8-Year Hiatus Move reflects effort to diversify partnerships amid strained U.S. relations and defense procurement shifts

www.chosun.com

Canada and China thaw continues as armed forces hold first talks in 8 years

The resumption of talks between the two armed forces comes as Ottawa reaches out to Beijing following a series of spats with Donald Trump.

www.scmp.com

China info-machine's short/sweet take (archived link to source):
View attachment 102147

Which other NATO countries (as well as Australia, Japan and NZ), are doing something similar?

 

[MilEME09]

Which other NATO countries (as well as Australia, Japan and NZ), are doing something similar?

New Zealand, Japan, the UK, France, India, Australia, russia, Pakistan, Singapore just to name a few

 

[YZT580]

Which other NATO countries (as well as Australia, Japan and NZ), are doing something similar?

 

[HavokFour]

Back to dealing with China on defence stuff.

Canada Has Reopened Military Channel to Beijing After Eight Years, China's Defense Ministry Announces

Op-Ed: A military channel Canada shelved after Beijing took two Canadians hostage is back in service. Carney did not campaign on it.

www.thebureau.news

Canada Resumes Defense Talks With China After 8-Year Hiatus

Canada Resumes Defense Talks With China After 8-Year Hiatus Move reflects effort to diversify partnerships amid strained U.S. relations and defense procurement shifts

www.chosun.com

Canada and China thaw continues as armed forces hold first talks in 8 years

The resumption of talks between the two armed forces comes as Ottawa reaches out to Beijing following a series of spats with Donald Trump.

www.scmp.com

China info-machine's short/sweet take (archived link to source):
View attachment 102147

Bit of a warning regarding the Chosun article.

This article has been translated by Upstage Solar AI.

The AI used to translate thinks Justin Trudeau is still PM.

Canada, which has consistently clashed with the second Trump administration, has accelerated efforts to restore relations with China this year. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau became the first Canadian leader since 2017 to visit China in January, meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Canada agreed to import Chinese electric vehicles up to 49,000 units annually with a 6.1% tariff, while China reduced its tariff on Canadian canola seeds from about 85% to about 15%. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, earlier this year, Trudeau emphasized the need to secure new markets and partners, stating that the international order is “in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.”

 

[The Bread Guy]

Bit of a warning regarding the Chosun article.



The AI used to translate thinks Justin Trudeau is still PM.

Chosun is a South Korean outlet I generally trust, but good catch on the Trudeau hallucination - even though the photo caption is correct. Funny how the original Korean version ...

캐나다, 美와 최악 갈등 속 中과 8년 만에 국방 대화 재개

캐나다가 미국 중심의 안보·통상 구조에서 탈피하고자 8년 만에 중국과 국방 대화를 재개함. 양국은 안보 현안 및 군사 교류를 논의하며 관계 복원에 나섬. 캐나다는 국방 조달의 자국화와 공급망 분산을 통해 전략적 자율성을 확보하려 하며, 중국은 이를 대미 의존 축소의 기회로 활용함. 하지만 캐나다는 여전히 대만해협 문제 등에서 중국을 경계하는 전략을 유지함.

www.chosun.com

... translated with Google's browser translator, has Carney as PM in both the story AND the photo caption

 

[HavokFour]

Chosun is a South Korean outlet I generally trust, but good catch on the Trudeau hallucination - even though the photo caption is correct. Funny how the original Korean version ...

캐나다, 美와 최악 갈등 속 中과 8년 만에 국방 대화 재개

캐나다가 미국 중심의 안보·통상 구조에서 탈피하고자 8년 만에 중국과 국방 대화를 재개함. 양국은 안보 현안 및 군사 교류를 논의하며 관계 복원에 나섬. 캐나다는 국방 조달의 자국화와 공급망 분산을 통해 전략적 자율성을 확보하려 하며, 중국은 이를 대미 의존 축소의 기회로 활용함. 하지만 캐나다는 여전히 대만해협 문제 등에서 중국을 경계하는 전략을 유지함.

www.chosun.com

... translated with Google's browser translator, has Carney as PM in both the story AND the photo caption

On top of the translation AI will also extrapolate from data it was trained on, even if it's incredibly out of date. One of it's bigger downsides if database upkeep is skimped.

And 1:1 machine translation (like Google) might miss some context.

Human translators still have a bit of an edge for now.

 

[HavokFour]

Which other NATO countries (as well as Australia, Japan and NZ), are doing something similar?

The US, and it's only been 2 years for them compared to our 8.

China, US military commanders snap 2-year break with talks in Canada

Yang Zhibin and Samuel Paparo meet to keep communication lines open between the two armed forces.

www.scmp.com

 

[MilEME09]

Big EU agreement coming soon, described as getting us as close as legally possible to the EU

https://twitter.com/x/status/2097343725907169396

 

[Czech_pivo]

Big EU agreement coming soon, described as getting us as close as legally possible to the EU

https://twitter.com/x/status/2097343725907169396

Anyone able to post an archived link to this to bypass the PW?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/eu-and-canada-plan-far-reaching-alliance-to-strengthen-partnership

 

[The Bread Guy]

Anyone able to post an archived link to this to bypass the PW?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/eu-and-canada-plan-far-reaching-alliance-to-strengthen-partnership

https://archive.is/Lg8xE

 

[MilEME09]

Canada looking to sell LNG and nuclear tech to Poland.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/canada-in-talks-to-sell-nuclear-power-technology-lng-to-poland?taid=6aa044f0dd13df000175d48b&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

 

[ArmyRick]

Big EU agreement coming soon, described as getting us as close as legally possible to the EU

https://twitter.com/x/status/2097343725907169396

Will it be a $400 billion deal? We did $408 billion exports to the US last year.

 

[ArmyRick]

I would prefer we kept both at arms length. Right now, now both are malignant powers. It’s like getting close to Imperial Japan because Nazi Germany is threatening our sovereignty.

That is a wise perspective.

 

[brihard]

Will it be a $400 billion deal? We did $408 billion exports to the US last year.

You realize most of our exports with the U.S. are still happening, right? We don’t need a deal or combination of deals that substitute all or even most of that.

 

[Czech_pivo]

You realize most of our exports with the U.S. are still happening, right? We don’t need a deal or combination of deals that substitute all or even most of that.

We simply need options and the ability to have options. With that, we are set. The US doesn’t want us to have options. They want us to have only 1 buyer, 1 market - their’s.
Having options, and the ability to choose where we sell and to who we sell, is power.
From here on out, we need to look at the selling of ALL our products from a business perspective - no emotions, no more ‘friends and family’ perspectives, simply you want our goods, here is the price take it or leave it.

 

[brihard]

We simply need options and the ability to have options. With that, we are set. The US doesn’t want us to have options. They want us to have only 1 buyer, 1 market - their’s.
Having options, and the ability to choose where we sell and to who we sell, is power.
From here on out, we need to look at the selling of ALL our products from a business perspective - no emotions, no more ‘friends and family’ perspectives, simply you want our goods, here is the price take it or leave it.

That’s pretty much how it is anyway. ‘Canada’ doesn’t sell things; Canadian companies do. They charge a price the market will bear. Any advantageous trade conditions with friendly nations are a matter of government policy on things like tariffs and quotas, not because some Canadian company is giving special pricing to the U.S., U.K. or what have you. Generally where they get better prices from us it’s because of cheaper inputs, and/or cheaper shipping of the goods to the U.S. due to proximity.

 

[Czech_pivo]

That’s pretty much how it is anyway. ‘Canada’ doesn’t sell things; Canadian companies do. They charge a price the market will bear. Any advantageous trade conditions with friendly nations are a matter of government policy on things like tariffs and quotas, not because some Canadian company is giving special pricing to the U.S., U.K. or what have you. Generally where they get better prices from us it’s because of cheaper inputs, and/or cheaper shipping of the goods to the U.S. due to proximity.

The US was low low hanging fruit, virtually no effort to sell.
All those ‘Canadian’ companies are virtually US branch companies whose sole focus is to sell back to the US.
That’s going to be our biggest challenge, seeing if they stick around and if they are allowed to look to other markets to sell their products.

 

[ArmyRick]

You realize most of our exports with the U.S. are still happening, right? We don’t need a deal or combination of deals that substitute all or even most of that.

You realize Trump wants to squeeze more of that our of our hands and into his hands. Every Canadian product he can stop coming over there and have it made or grown in the USA is what he wants.
How many of our exports will be standing as this continues?

 

[Czech_pivo]

You realize Trump wants to squeeze more of that our of our hands and into his hands. Every Canadian product he can stop coming over there and have it made or grown in the USA is what he wants.
How many of our exports will be standing as this continues?

100% spot on

 

[brihard]

You realize Trump wants to squeeze more of that our of our hands and into his hands. Every Canadian product he can stop coming over there and have it made or grown in the USA is what he wants.
How many of our exports will be standing as this continues?

The majority. Because, as economically illiterate as he is, many of his states have economies strongly impacted by bilateral trade. We’re already seeing walk backs on some tariffs due to regional economic pain. There’s only so far he can go with this, and the door is rapidly swinging shut on his political options.