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Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%
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What they don't have is rule by the extraordinarily wealthy. They have rule by the party. I guess we'll find out which one is worse.
For all intents and purposes, Xi is worth far more than anyone in the west could dream of. It may not be reflected in stock certificates and bank balances, but if money is just the potential energy of power, Xi can do more than every US billionaire combined.
The difference mostly shows up in policies. Nobody is saying the top leadership of the CCP isn't enriching themselves. What they're noting is that the top leadership is small enough that this enrichment doesn't (yet) necessitate tilting the entire economy towards enrichment of its elites, at the cost of harming economic growth. The key word there is yet.
You see broadly different outcomes in many authoritarian countries, for example Russia. You might also argue that much of the short-term decision making we've seen from US industry lately is driven by the need to produce returns to stockholders, at the cost of long-term investment.
Re: Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%
#603Up to 49,000 vehicles. To put that number in context, in 2024 Candians bought 1,918,861 vehicles of which 264,277 where zero-emissions.
Is the number of EV sales for 2025 out? I expect it to be much lower since Quebec suspended their subsidies for a good chunk of the year.
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14% of the US elected trump.
I know it’s lower than 50% but I wanted to get a better idea myself. Numbers rounded to the nearest 5 million - Trump voters 2024: 75m - US population 2024: 340m - US population >18 2024: 265m - % pop Trump voters: 22% - % pop >18 Trump voters: 28% What numbers did you use?
Guesstimate from the last time I was curious about these numbers. Looks like I was pretty close.
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The US? No, Trump.
In the second Trump term, the rest of the world is justified in viewing the US as the kind of country which will, for the foreseeable future, periodically elect this kind of kakistocratic leadership. The lesson is finally sinking in, in ways that it did not during the first Trump term. People wanted to believe that is was a one-off. During the first Trump term the argument could be made that it wasn't, but it was deb…
Europe is just as susceptible to right wing populist takeover. Already happened in the eu for example Hungary.
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Nice. IP is one thing that has ruined many things. Unless you are WIPO and Oracle Fan. All current AI companies are closed. What benefit? Most things from Uni are published openly. BTW, did people in US pay royalty to China for inventing paper?
Taking your China comment in good faith: the copyright term on paper has long elapsed anyway, even if there's Mickey Mouse drawn on the paper in question.
What would china consider to be the appropriate length of compensation though?
the claim is that chinese people in china must follow US law. presumably US people in US should also follow chinese law.
Re: Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%
#607Up to 49,000 vehicles. To put that number in context, in 2024 Candians bought 1,918,861 vehicles of which 264,277 where zero-emissions.
Is the number of EV sales for 2025 out? I expect it to be much lower since Quebec suspended their subsidies for a good chunk of the year.
2024 was the most recent data in the statscan (official government source) page I took that from - though that doesn't necessarily mean there isn't 2025 data somewhere.
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#608A Canadian satire site has the headline "Canada chooses lawful evil over chaotic evil": * https://thebeaverton.com/2026/01/canada-chooses-lawful-evil-... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_(Dungeons_%26_Dragon... Edit: A comment in /r/canada: > TBF I would much rather work for Lex Luthor than The Joker if I had to choose one.
I'm really into geopolitics, and it's clear to see what's happening from the US side. America still wants to play hegemon, but since Bretton Woods 2.0 didn't happen, they're going to lock up the entire North and South American continents from Chinese and Russian influence. And it'll be fierce. The next salvo is going to be US statehood for Alberta and Saskatchewan. There is already partisan support within those provi…
im in alberta currently.
there's less talk about separation here than there is in Washington for splitting out to form cascadia.
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That might be the rhetoric, but separation means joining the US. The experience of landlocked country would be one of getting taken advantage of by every country around it. There is a good 20% of people in Alberta who would vote for separation today. Take a close look, they aren't voting to be an independent country surrounded by a hostile country around it and a superpower that hijacks oil tankers to the south. http…
The stated objective of the Alberta Prosperity Project is for Alberta to be a sovereign nation. They're not looking to trade Ottawa for Washington. Of course it is a loony idea, but that is what they're pushing.
you can listen to their purveyors on various podcasts and the like.
the are still actively pushing to try to get the US onboard at the same time.
you can also look to crimea as an example, independence and annexed by russia happened within a day or two
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The two-party system is fine. We have to be honest about the fact that parliamentary systems can give massive power to a tiny fraction of the population when that small party becomes the deciding vote. The problems with the USA political system are: electoral college, senate being 2 votes per state, and the supreme court being 7 people for life. But nothing can be done about the last two now. Especially now that the…
> The two-party system is fine. Is it? Many western countries are having more or less prominent populist right wing movements, and the two countries I can think of where that movement has gotten its hand in power on really significant issues during the last decade or so are UK and US. Both strongly two party systems at the time of the "interesting" developments. And I do not think a two party system is typical, I am…
our 4(or almost 5) party system is working pretty well.
without quebec and the bloc, i think canadian politics would similarly devolve into brokenness