Canada, the U.K., South Korea and others are getting cozy with Chinese leadership as a hedge against an unpredictable Trump administration

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Canada, the U.K., South Korea and other nations are getting cozy with Chinese leadership as a hedge against an unpredictable Trump administration. It’s a dicey move. U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening retaliatory tariffs, citing Canada as a pressure-relief valve for Chinese overcapacity dribbling into the U.S. market. The Chinese Communist Party’s end game is more opaque.

To find out more, I track down China-watcher and fellow Canadian journalist Cleo Paskal. She often reports from remote places in the world, revealing what happens when China and America bump up against each other.

Get a dash of perspective along with the trending news of the day in a very readable format.

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This week, she’s weighing in on the U.K. decision to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. In her capacity as senior fellow at the Foundation for Defence of Democracies, she testified as an expert witness before the U.K. House of Lords last June.

“I think they were expecting me to say it’s a bad idea because of the Chinese influence in Mauritius,” Cleo shares, “and what I said was it’s a bad idea because of the Chinese influence in the U.K.” I chuckle out loud, imagining how her message must have landed in those venerable chambers.

As for U.K. Prime........

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