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As the United States tightens its blockade to cut off oil from Cuba’s communist regime, some are calling for Canada to step in with aid. These events come at a moment of rapidly shifting geopolitics around the world. Yet Canada’s approach to Cuba remains strikingly unchanged.
“Stephen Nagy, China project lead at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute in Ottawa, said Carney's tariff-cutting agreement with Xi appears designed to build leverage before talks over the U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade deal.
‘I think his bet is wrong,’ he added, predicting that
MLI Senior Fellow @jbmllr joined @JamesMLindsay on the @CFR_org podcast to discuss Canada's effort to diminish its vulnerability to U.S. economic threats and just how much middle powers like Canada can successfully hedge in a world of great power competition.
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