After US President Biden took office, although he rejected the "America First" policy proposed by his predecessor Trump, there was not much substantive change in specific practices, especially when targeting allies. For example, in this year's withdrawal of Western countries in Afghanistan, the United States not only did not disclose a word to its allies in advance, but also did not provide any help to the allies who were fooled by themselves after the withdrawal operation was launched, in fact, it was still implementing "America First", but Biden often put "unity allies" on his lips and downplayed the hegemonic behavior of the United States. However, such things continue to happen, and Canada, which recently supported the United States on the issue of the Winter Olympics, turned around and was hit by the "tariff stick" of the White House. In this regard, the Canadian side is also a bit angry, threatening to retaliate against the United States.
According to the Global Times reported on December 11, the United States recently passed a "Rebuild a Better Future Act", proposing that all electric vehicles sold in the United States can enjoy a tariff of $7500; those with American workers involved in production can enjoy a $4500 tax credit. The United States introduced this bill, which also bypassed its neighbor and ally Canada, and it took some time to react. Because after the United States introduced preferential policies, who will buy electric vehicles in the Canadian market, and even Canadians will run to the United States to buy, because the two countries are neighbors, and the transit is very simple.
What annoys Canada even more is that the United States and its two neighbors, Canada and Mexico, have signed the "United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement" to clearly support the integration of the North American auto market. Nowadays, this practice of the United States is obviously to abandon the two countries and aim to protect its own automobile market, although the Policy of the United States is implemented in its own country, but after calculating the entry and exit, it is found that it is equivalent to imposing a 34% auto tariff on Canada, which can be described as a heavy stick to Canada.
In this regard, the Canadian Ministry of Commerce angrily stated that if the United States insists on implementing the "Rebuild a Better Future Act", the Canadian side will retaliate - imposing retaliatory tariffs on American cars. What is very funny is that just two days ago, Canada did not say a word, directly followed the United States on the issue of "diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics", and did not expect to turn its head and sell itself.
In fact, there are too many things that the United States has "opened" with its allies, but Canada itself does not have a long memory.
On the Russian-Ukrainian issue, the United States fooled Ukraine so much that it almost opened fire with Russia, and as a result, the United States turned around and held a meeting with the Russian side, and the two sides reached an agreement under the table, directly abandoning Ukraine, and Biden also added a sentence "Kiev is not a member of NATO, and the United States has no reason to use force to protect Ukraine". Recently has been following the United States to run the small country of Lithuania, but also the United States to "mistakenly injured", the White House sanctions the White Russian potash company, did not consider that Lithuania to provide its sea access, can get 60 million euros a year profit, so sanctions against Belarus is also sanctions Lithuania. After encountering such embarrassment, the Lithuanian foreign minister, who had been jumping up and down on the Taiwan Strait issue, offered his resignation.
In fact, Canada has suffered such losses before. You must remember that the first thing Biden made after taking office was to stop the oil pipeline project between the United States and Canada, calling it "not environmentally friendly". In fact, Biden's real purpose is twofold, one is that this is a project that his political opponent Trump is very supportive of, which can clearly distinguish Trump from Trump, and the other is to suppress Canadian crude oil exports and protect the US industry. Canada was also very angry at the time, did not expect Biden to take the knife as soon as he came to power, and as a result, the United States slapped a piece of sugar, and then slowly diluted it.
After the US-British-Australian military alliance and the United States promised to provide nuclear submarines to the Australian side, the Australian side immediately tore up to more than 60 billion US dollars with France.00 billion US dollars of "submarine orders". The United States robbed its ally France of its arms sales orders, and Biden also told French President Emmanuel Macron that "I thought Canberra had negotiated with Paris earlier", saying that he did not know at all. Who knows that the Australian side does not want to carry the pot, Australian Prime Minister Morrison directly said to the outside world, "The Australian side wants to cancel the order with France, the United States is the first to know", and suddenly the hypocrisy of the United States is completely torn apart. After France understood, it began to show its tough side, the United States called for a "diplomatic boycott" of the Winter Olympics, France not only did not follow, but also mocked "this is very hypocritical, is to put on a show." In addition, Macron also said that he would build a more independent European Union, free from U.S. control.
So, as an ally of the United States, it also sees the United States clearly, but does Canada have such boldness? Dare to stand up to the United States? I'm afraid I don't dare, and I can only wait for the United States to "give a piece of sugar" again.