China’s involvement in the exercise comes amid its intensifying trade war with the United States.

They played it at a time when we were not involved in any kind of kinetic war … we’re in a cold war, essentially, a trade war,” he said.  “They played it early, and that woke up America. Certainly woke up this administration.”

China’s factory output rose less than expected in May amid continued uncertainty from its trade war with the United States.

“As all Canadians feel the impact of Donald Trump’s trade war, let’s not give in to those who aim to bring his politics here,” he added. B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad has said his party supports Smith's proposal.

“I think at the end of the day, Americans don’t want a trade war,” he said. “Canada and the United States, we should be working together. We’ve been there for each other in challenging times.”

“Especially while the trade war with the U.S. remains unresolved, China must maintain its relationships with the rest of the world, which is why it deliberately downplayed Iran’s role in the drills and concealed it in state media," Cheng said.

The leadership campaign had to compete for the public's attention with a federal election and a trade war with the United States.

Jobs are at risk today, and he was elected under the premise of dealing with an immediate crisis due to the trade war. Canadians will be expecting action from the government when it resumes sitting this fall.

Trade ministers met in Luxembourg on April 7 to debate the EU's response, as well as to discuss relations with China. Many said the EU's priority was to launch negotiations with the United States and avert an outright trade war.

war becomes a reality.

As the only freight railway to span all three countries in North America, CPKC has an especially keen interest in whether the White House launches a trade war.

Canadians are increasingly backing the Energy East and Northern Gateway pipeline initiatives as well as the expansion of domestic energy infrastructure in response to a looming threat of a trade war with the United States, a new survey suggests.

Not long ago, he gave China yet another 90 days to come to terms on trade. This means that the current truce in the trade war does not expire until Nov. 10, close to a year into his presidency.

“We do not want any kind of trade war with us. It will be devastating, not just for the Americans, but also for Europe,” Rasmussen told reporters. “So we don’t want to escalate things.”

A flood, a trade war, or a mysteriously timed lettuce shortage, and suddenly, they’re in hi-vis on the evening news, windswept, solemn, and wildly overexposed. Approval ratings spike faster than avocado prices in Bondi.

The bank’s base case is that current U.S. trade policies remain in place.

German carmakers also fear being caught in the crosshairs of a trade war between the European Union and China, with hefty EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles set to come into force this week. By Axel Schmidt and Christoph Steitz

Carney has called multiple meetings of Canada’s premiers since assuming office to try and create a united front in dealing with the ongoing trade war with the United States.

When President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Chinese imports, he didn’t provoke a trade war; he acknowledged one.

–China meeting in South Korea on Oct. 30 ended with a truce that lowered tariffs and halted a spiraling trade war between the world’s two biggest economies.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) responded with a trade war on Australian exports, slapping sanctions on a wide range of goods.

Colombia and the United States narrowly avoided a trade war caused by a spat over deportation flights using military aircraft including U.S. planes that transported illegal immigrants on Jan. 26.

Known for “looking the other way” when it came to smuggling and illegal trade, Unzaga helped keep the western frontier active in the war, forcing Britain to divert valuable manpower and resources away from the Atlantic coast.

"Let’s not forget that there is a trade war going on around the world, yet it seems Queensland government is choosing to ignore solutions that enable us to keep our part in copper production.”

Both economies have sought to end a trade war in which the United States slapped Beijing with a 145 percent tariff on Chinese goods, while the Chinese Communist Party hiked levies to 125 percent on U.S. imports in retaliation.

"The difference between Mexico and Canada thus far is that Canada thinks we're fighting a trade war with them. That's not the case. This is a drug war."

During the interview, Hassett said tariff threats are a U.S. strategy to pressure its two neighbours to solve the drug crisis and that Canada had misunderstood the threat as a “trade war” instead of a call to address the fentanyl problem.

“But Redfin agents report that homebuyers and sellers last month were particularly nervous about tariffs and the ongoing trade war.” Redfin attributed the sluggish housing demand to high home prices and elevated mortgage rates.

A trade war and a potential nuclear war are two different things. There will be no end to people blaming Trump, especially as Xi would claim that Americans pushed him into it.

In one possibility, where broad tariffs see costs rapidly passed through over the course of a year, inflation rises roughly 2.25 percentage points higher in the first quarter of 2026 than it would have without the trade war.