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    "parsed_content": "U.S.-Canada Trade WarEffect of Trump\u2019s DiplomacyCanada Moves Toward E.U.Ban on Canadian ImportsCanada\u2019s Retaliatory TariffsTalks CollapsedAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTNews AnalysisTrump Wanted Canada as the 51st State. He Ended Up Pushing It Toward the European Union.The invitation by the E.U. for Canada to become an \u201cassociate member\u201d is a sign of Mr. Trump\u2019s brand of diplomacy, which often involves threatening America\u2019s closest friends.Listen \u00b7 6:28 min Share full articlePresident Donald J. Trump with Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada in the Oval Office last October. Credit...Haiyun Jiang\/The New York TimesBy Luke Broadwater and Michael CrowleySept. 16, 2026Leer en espa\u00f1olSee more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google Early in his second term, President Trump wanted Canada so entwined with the United States that he even set out to make it the 51st state. Instead, he has driven Canada into the arms of the European Union, after antagonizing the Canadians for months, taunting the country\u2019s prime minister and waging a relentless trade war.The invitation by the European Union on Wednesday for Canada to become an \u201cassociate member\u201d is a sign of the knock-on effects of Mr. Trump\u2019s brand of diplomacy, which often involves threatening countries that once were considered America\u2019s closest friends.And even if the gesture by the E.U. ends up being more symbolic than substantive, it shows how Mr. Trump is upending global relationships in ways that will be difficult to undo.\u201cWe should see this action from Canada and the E.U. as a direct consequence of Trump\u2019s actions and rhetoric,\u201d said James Batchik, a deputy director at the Atlantic Council\u2019s Europe Center. \u201cThe rhetoric around making Canada the 51st state, and the threats against Greenland, which are still highly, highly, controversial and remembered in Brussels, are really reminders for both sides that the United States is not necessarily that trusted ally that it once was.\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAt every turn, Mr. Trump\u2019s bullying approach to Canada has appeared to backfire. His trade war stirred up trouble for embattled Republicans in swing states, endangering G.O.P. control of the Senate. And his hostility toward Canadian leaders helped surge the country\u2019s struggling liberal party, no friend of Mr. Trump\u2019s, to electoral victory.President Trump responded to the E.U.\u2019s overture to Canada with fury while speaking to reporters Wednesday night. Want to stay updated on what\u2019s happening in Canada? Sign up for Your Places: Global Update, and we\u2019ll send our latest coverage to your inbox.\u201cCanada\u2019s been a terrible trade partner,\u201d he said. \u201cNo, I don\u2019t see that. If they do that, if I think it\u2019s at all a hostile act, I will put very serious tariffs or stop trading with Europe on many things. So, if they do that, if Europe does that, with a bad intention \u2014 if it\u2019s a good intention, that\u2019s fine \u2014 if it\u2019s a bad intention we\u2019ll put very heavy tariffs on Europe, which is a possibility.\u201dMr. Trump\u2019s battle with Canada is part of his striking focus on a Western Hemisphere that recent presidents, typically consumed with the Middle East and Asia, have often neglected.Mr. Trump, emboldened after a U.S. operation that toppled the leader of Venezuela, has set his sights this year on other countries in the Western Hemisphere. He has applied massive economic pressure against Cuba and proposed a \u201cfriendly takeover.\u201d He has threatened to seize the Panama Canal and to wrest the North American island of Greenland from Denmark.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTIn an update of the Monroe Doctrine, the 1823 foundational statement of U.S. claims over the Western Hemisphere, with what he called the \u201cTrump Corollary,\u201d Mr. Trump formally declared that \u201cthe American people \u2014 not foreign nations nor globalist institutions \u2014 will always control their own destiny in our hemisphere.\u201dSign up for the On Politics newsletter. It's a pivotal moment for American politics. Join us for 2026 and beyond. Get it sent to your inbox.(Mr. Trump often refers to the concept as the \u201cDonroe Doctrine,\u201d named after himself.)In the cases of Cuba and Venezuela, Mr. Trump\u2019s policies are led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a Cuban-American whose interest in Latin America is driven by his strong anti-socialist ideology. Mr. Rubio has shown far less public enthusiasm for Mr. Trump\u2019s territorial claims than he does for democratizing the region.But Mr. Trump\u2019s fixation with Canada is mainly rooted in trade and economics, not territory or politics.The president started his second term threatening Canada\u2019s previous leader, Justin Trudeau, whom Mr. Trump publicly derided, with unilaterally scrapping agreements that have governed the relationship between the neighboring countries for over a century.He has imposed tariffs on Canada, which with Mexico is one of America\u2019s two top trading partners, that are crippling some of Canada\u2019s key economic sectors, such as autos, steel, aluminum and lumber.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTIn part because of Mr. Trump\u2019s attacks, Canadians rallied around Mr. Trudeau\u2019s successor, Prime Minister Mark Carney, who positioned himself as a fighter against the American president. This year, Mr. Carney delivered a speech in Davos, Switzerland, in which he called for a new world order, no longer led by America, prompting global political and corporate leaders in the audience to rise from their seats for a rare standing ovation.\u201cThe middle powers must act together because if we\u2019re not at the table, we\u2019re on the menu,\u201d Mr. Carney said.Liana Fix, a senior fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations, said it wasn\u2019t clear what Canada becoming an \u201cassociate member\u201d of the E.U. would mean, beyond trade and defense agreements already in place. But Canada and the European Union will meet for a summit at the end of October, when they are expected to lay out more concrete ideas.Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Union, has said Canada and Europe could work more closely together on the Arctic, their defense industrial bases and critical minerals.\u201cThe E.U. wants to make a statement that the middle powers have a say and will not be bullied by the Trump administration,\u201d Ms. Fix said.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe reaction of Canada and European leaders is perhaps unsurprising, given Mr. Trump\u2019s penchant for attacking allies and playing nice with historic rivals, Mr. Batchik said.\u201cDonald Trump has been pulling his punches toward some of our adversaries, top of mind Russia and China, and doubling down and taking a rather gleeful approach to needling our previous would-be allies,\u201d Mr. Batchik said. \u201cYou\u2019re starting to see many across Europe taking that to heart and saying, OK, if that\u2019s truly the case, if that\u2019s how the United States is going to treat its allies, they\u2019re just going to look elsewhere.\u201dIt could end up being \u201ca generational turn away from the United States,\u201d he said, \u201cor at least will take a significant amount of energy and time to repair these relations.\u201dErica L. Green contributed.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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