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COMMENTARY: What the China–U.S. Parity Numbers Are Really Telling Us
There is one sentence in the Congressional Research Service’s 2025 update on Chinese naval modernization that ought to have reorganized the entire Western strategic conversation. Quoting the Pentagon, it calls the People’s Liberation Army Navy the largest navy on the…
COMMENTARY: Europe strikes “associate member” in Montreal, and Canada keeps its carbon bill
Two words are gone. They said “associate member.” The draft struck them. I will not mourn them. The joint text now speaks of “an…
COMMENTARY: Washington bans Wall Street from buying homes, and Wall Street had already left
Starting January 7, 2027, a large investor will no longer be able to buy a single-family home.
COMMENTARY: Trump’s Iowa steel mill is good news due in 2030, not on November 3
On September 28, in the Oval Office, Donald Trump announced a US$15 billion steel mill that will not pour a single ton of steel…
COMMENTARY: Alito feared an eight-justice Court, and he creates one in Suncor without saying why
In 2023, Samuel Alito wrote that a Supreme Court short of justices would see its work “substantially disrupted and distorted.” On September 28, he…
COMMENTARY: Moscow hits Kyivstar three times in September, and targets the phone that warns
Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest mobile operator, was hit three times in September: its engineering team’s office in Kyiv on the 11th, a building housing its…
COMMENTARY: Trump’s icebreakers are a good move in the Arctic, even for a North that fears him
A poll published by Global News on Monday, September 21, gives the North’s answer. For 48% of respondents, the greatest threat to the Arctic…
COMMENTARY: Berlin says “of course” to Canadian LNG, but its first purchase will ship from the Pacific
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul answered “of course” on Sunday, on CTV, when asked whether Europe wanted more Canadian liquefied natural gas.
COMMENTARY: Trump promises Beijing relief on $30 billion, and Canada stays at 50%
Xi Jinping returned to Beijing on September 26. With a trade truce extended by two months. And a promise of tariff relief on $30…