Is a Free Trade Deal With China Worth It for Canada?

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A truck transports a container to be loaded onto a ship at a port in Tianjin, China. October, 2017. AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan

Rhetoric from the Trump administration has singled out China as the biggest single threat on the global stage.

U.S. President Donald Trump wants to bring back manufacturing lost mainly due to China. His former chief strategist Steve Bannon said in a Sept. 10 interview on 60 Minutes, “China is at economic war with us.” U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer called China a “threat to the world trading system.”