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Trump’s protectionist trade policies allow China to swoop in
America’s top trading partners are responding to Trump’s belligerent and unpredictable trade policies
— including his announcement Saturday to impose tariffs on eight European allies for opposing U.S. designs on acquiring Greenland
— by trying to take their business elsewhere.
Canada broke with the United States on Friday, slashing its 100% import tax on Chinese electric vehicles
in return for lower …

Trump's protectionist trade policies allow China to swoop in
America’s top trading partners are responding to President Trump’s trade policies by trying to take their business to China and elsewhere.

EU trade ‘bazooka’ back on the table, as Greenland tariff threat blows up US deal
https://www.euractiv.com/news/eu-trade-bazooka-back-on-the-table-as-greenland-tariff-threat-blows-up-us-deal/

U.S. Trade Deficit Surged in December (Matt Grossman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/u-s-trade-deficit-grew-in-december-da4afda5?st=F13HWx&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p27#a260219p27

South Africa considers site near African penguin colony for third nuclear power plant https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/south-africa-considers-site-near-african-penguin-colony-for-third-nuclear-pow…

South Africa considers site near African penguin colony for third nuclear power plant
South African state electricity company Eskom is reevaluating two sites to host the country’s third nuclear power plant, having previously dismissed both for an earlier facility. The two potential sites are Thyspunt, on the Eastern Cape coast, and Bantamsklip, near Dyer Island in the Western Cape, home to a significant, but declining colony of critically […]

An experiment finds X's feed algorithm favored conservative content, and switching to the "For you" feed shifted users' views toward more conservative positions (Ece Yildirim/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/researchers-find-t

X's Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative, Researchers Find
The algorithm also doesn't like posts by traditional news media, the researchers found.

The biggest risk to Canada comes from its prickly southern neighbor.
The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)
— a regional trade pact Trump signed in his first term that allows many goods to cross North American borders duty-free
— comes up for renewal this year.
Trump is almost sure to demand changes meant to shift manufacturing to the United States
— and might threaten to pull out of the deal altogether,
especially if he is inclined to punish Carney for…

Trump's protectionist trade policies allow China to swoop in
America’s top trading partners are responding to President Trump’s trade policies by trying to take their business to China and elsewhere.

Q&A with FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam, only the second CEO in the company's history, on humanoid robots, automation, AI, drones, US-China trade tensions, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/business/fedex-raj-subramaniam.html…

The Man Delivering FedEx Into the Age of Drones, Robots and A.I.
Raj Subramaniam took over three years ago from FedEx’s founder, who ran the company for nearly 50 years. Since then, technology, tariffs and other disruptions have “fundamentally shifted” patterns of global trade.

Carney Poaches Third Conservative Defector as He Chases Majority (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/carney-lures-third-opposition-lawmaker-to-his-liberal-party
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p54#a260218p54

Third immigrant detainee at facility in El Paso has died, ICE says (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/third-immigrant-detainee-facility-el-paso-died-ice-says-rcna254783
http://www.memeorandum.com/260119/p102#a260119p102