From china. This is on top of the most favoured nation tariff of 6. 1 already slapped onto chinese produced evs that are imported into canada. Now, the government also intends to apply a 25 tariff on imports of steel and aluminium products from china. Canadas finance minister, chrystia freeland, says these measures were about protecting domestic producers. The reality is china has an intentional state directed policy of overcapacity and oversupply, designed designed to cripple our own industries. Talk to the steel sector. Talk to the aluminium sector to understand how effective that has already been. We simply will not allow that to happen to our ev sector. The auto tariffs bring canada in line with its southern neighbour. The us introduced 100 tariffs on chinese made evs in may whilst the eu is also imposing higher tariffs. It comes after Us National Security advisorjake sullivan, whos en route to beijing, touted the need for a united front on tariffs when he met Withjustin Trudeau an
Center for the humanities. Event occurred in dallas. Since the pandemic has begun, for our purposes, since we shut down in march, they thing that thing that has been driving our analysis here as historians is what is the historical precedent . Obviously, 1918 is the one that comes to mind and we have nobody better to tell us about 1918 than my friend christopher nichols. Hes an associate professor of history at oregon state. He is also the director of the Oregon State Center for humanities and the founder of their citizenship and crisis initiative. He also studied at harvard and wesleyan, and got his ma and phd from a good friend of ours at the university of virginia. Chris is an expert on i would say the early parts of the 20th century. That is what his previous work was on. He is expanding out and he and i, before we came on, we were chatting about new work on ideologies in u. S. Foreign policy, which is that book itself was a seminal book in the field in 1987 and im glad someone has
You pull them together in this book with a larger argument about the failures of liberalism. I thought it might make sense for you to. [inaudible] reading a little bit from that introduction. Oh, sure. Absolutely. The emphasis in essays in this book were written in response to the Anglo American delusions that climaxed in brexit, the election of donald trump and, finally, a calamitous response to the covid19 outbreak. These range from the 19th century dream of imperial liberalism long championed by the colonists in which capital, goods, jobs and people freely circulate through the proclamation of an American Century of free trade and modernization, the attempt by american cold warriors to seduce [inaudible] away from communist revolution and into the gradual u. S. Alternative or consumer capitalism of democracy to the catastrophic humanitarian wars and demagoguic explosions of our times. Wrote in 1957 at the height of the cold war are the fanatics of western civilization who regard the
Short two to three week circuit breaker. The northwest of england, the northwest, the northeast. The list is growing longer. Tom it is going to be interesting. To say the least, the lockdown in america is not a lot done but is very regional, as mentioned in the debate last night. The upper middle west really hit hard right now. In new york city with our news, ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump and joe biden covered a wide range of issues in last nights second debate. Amongst them, racism, corruption, and the manner in which the president handled the coronavirus. Trump no choice. We cannot lock ourselves up in a basement like joe does. He says we are learning to live with it. People are learning to die with it. He also said the vaccine would be coming in weeks. In that of a guarantee is that a guarantee . Pres. Trump it is not a guarantee, but by the end of the year. Mr. Biden anyone responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States of america. Ritik
Are more skeptical we all have to give ourselves a push now and see that it goes in the right direction. The numbers are always going up so you have to do your part to make them go down again and govern great progress and success but i hope that we will be spared but unfortunately we cant rule this out completely although im not sure if it will really help to contain the pandemic when we isolate them for most of people i assume that there will be new measures theres nothing you can do about it and we have to get the infection under control in this newsroom in the. New restrictions are expected on wednesday after chancellor merkel meets with germanys 16 regional leaders. News has seen a copy of the chancellor is working paper for that meeting of america with the state prime ministers and heres more of what we think Anglo American is going to propose schools and day care facilities are to remain open and thats a major difference to the 1st locked up germans will be told to limit contacts