The candidate of President Donald Trump, who is an US ambassador to Ottawa, said on Thursday that he considers Canada as an independent nation, promising to respect his sovereignty amidst a global trade war and hostile rhetoric, which has cried to diplomatic relations.
“Canada is a sovereign state, yes,” Peter Hocastra told his Senate to hear, when Delaware’s Democratic Senator Chris Cons asked if he agrees that Canada is a sovereign state and should not be sent jokingly as the 51st state.
Hocastra, a former Republican House of Michigan’s Republican House of Representatives, is expected to be confirmed, as Ronald Johnson as Ambassador to Mexico and George Glass as Ambassador to Japan.
All three testified to a Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which is much more consistent than the current rhetoric around American relations with Canada and Mexico. All three nominees also worked as Trump’s first US ambassadors.
“We have a big history of working together,” he stressed Trump’s interest in Freer, Fair Trade, “Hocastra said,” he stressed Trump’s interest, “he said that the Canadian would strengthen businesses.
Canada, Mexico and Japan are three of the top five trading partners in the United States.
Johnson said he was interested in increasing the US-Maxican trade relations, but if American citizens were in danger, did not ruled out unilateral American military action in Mexico.
“Should there be a case where the lives of American citizens are at risk, I think all cards are on the table,” Johnson said.
Mexican President Claudia Shinbam has said that any such operation will cause the country’s sovereignty.
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Trump has threatened standing tariffs against a wide range of imported goods, inspiring the dangers of ventilative duties in a business war that cried financial markets and raised the possibility of recession.
Trump has also suggested that the United States should anxize Canada, repeatedly referring to it as an American state.
Trump has also said about an alliance with Japan, saying that it forces America to protect Japan, but not on the contrary, while Tokyo earns money on its American relations.
Glass said that Washington “undoubtedly” would have to ask Japan to increase its financial contribution to the maintenance of American forces from Japan, which mentioned an agreement in 2027 due to being rebuilt in 2027.
Glass said Japan was home to 60,000 American soldiers and Tokyo was providing assistance for the US Army for about $ 1.4 billion per year, while the Chinese forces had increased and the cost of pushing back against Beijing was “quite expensive”.
“Do we have a weapon system that we need to upgrade, the command-end-control that we are going to upgrade with Japanese are very expensive ventures,” he said.
“And so undoubtedly, I am confident that we are going to Japanese and talking about an increase in that support.”
Glass stated that the relationship between the Allies “at one top … an all -time high,” was, and a summit between Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba mentioned, on which the two sides committed to carry on a new golden age of the relationship.
Glass said that there was currently a delivery backlog of $ 50 billion US military equipment ordered by Japan and needed to resolve it quickly.
He said that he was reading about co-construction of some items including RTX, East, Amaram Air-to-Air Missiles, and “It seems just a much more efficient way to do business and to help them to be able to push them back against China.”
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