After bullishly declaring to the world at Davos this week that the United States is the supreme power on earth and that other countries must do its bidding, President of the United States, Donald Trump has declared that Canada must not develop trading ties with China.

If Canada does not heed this warning, the United States will impose 100 per cent tariffs thus crippling its economy. The United States is Canada’s neighbour and the world’s leading economy is its top trading partner.

According to the “Don-Roe” Doctrine, China has no place in the Western Hemisphere and countries in the Americas should not be doing deals with China.

Closer to home, Jamaica has been warned that China is not its friend and that it cannot continue to be a top investor and lender in Jamaica. If this continues, Trump will put the hammer down on visas and reduce financial aid.

On Canada, President Trump said: “ If Governor Carney thinks he is going to make Canada a “ Drop Off Port” for Canada to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken. China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it, including the destruction of their business, social fabric and general way of life.

“If Canada makes a deal with China it will immediately be hit with a 100 per cent tariff against all Canadian goods and products coming into the United States of America.”

Will Carney capitulate like other European leaders and cower in fear of Trump’s wrath?

Trump has declared that the old world order is over and that the United States is the top imperial power now both militarily and economically and that he expects other countries to acknowledge that.

 President  Trump has said that Canada should become the 51st state of the United States and may very be so after Greenland is annexed. At Davos, President Trump said Canada lives because of the United States.

There is a 6 per cent tariff now on Chinese EVs coming into Canada. It must be stressed there is no free trade agreement between Canada and China.

Speaking after holding trade negotiations in Beijing last week, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said, “Canada now has set the goal of doubling our exports to China by the end of this decade. Yes, China is a more predictable partner than the United States. The way our relationship with China has progressed in recent months, it is more predictable and you see results coming from that.”

Canada will be allowing up to 49,000 Chinese-made EVs into its market every year with a most-favoured-nation tariff rate of 6 per cent. Carney’s trip to the Chinese capital sawis a return to the  terms that existed prior to recent trade frictions

Canada’s Foreign Minister Anita Anand said: “ It is necessary for us to diversify our trading partners and to grow non-US trade by at least 50 per cent over the next ten years.”

On Trump viewing China as an adversary and preventing America’s neighbours from doing business with the world’s second largest economy, Mark Carney said: “ We take the world as it is, not as we wish it to be.”