Memo to everyone in the world looking to understand US trade policy: if you haven’t read Lighthizer’s book yet, might want to…. Quickly.

harpercollins.com/products/no-tr… x.com/dimi/status/18… / Lighthizer’s chapter on Canada is interesting. His chapters — plural — on China would scrape paint off a wall. Just scorching stuff. And key to understanding where Trump’s team, and frankly the U.S. in general, is coming from these days.

Canadian deputy PM Freeland is in DC at a Council on Foreign Relations event - asked why Canada's GDP has under-performed vs the US.

Her answer: The US is the anomaly. It's doing extraordinarily well, versus other developed countries -- and that's good news for the US. Canada doing better than most other G7 countries.

Also, she adds: You have the reserve currency, which allows you to rack up monster deficits others can't. / Conversation turns to Artificial Intelligence. Freeland says: "You need us for your AI revolution." Because Canada has lots of renewable energy potential, cold climate ideal for data centres.

Refers to Canada as the third AI hub, after the US and China. Notes her Toronto constituent, Geoff Hinton, just won the Nobel Prize.

A just-unsealed U.S. criminal indictment has unleashed an unprecedented flood of details about an alleged Indian government-connected plot to carry out multiple assassinations in North America

It alleges there were *3* such assassination plots in Canada

cbc.ca/news/world/us-… More:

An Indian official allegedly offered $100K to assassinate a Sikh separatist in New York, apparently an American and Canadian citizen.

He told an alleged drug- and weapons-trafficker he could get an Indian criminal charge dropped if he made it happen /

Fox News is first reporting that there were two deaths at the bridge and it's a suspected terror attack. / And who does Fox News have on, immediately, to discuss this?

The GOP presidential candidate proposing a wall with Canada:

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