Edward Alden
@edwardalden
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Co-author 2025 book: “When the World Closed Its Doors: The Covid-19 Tragedy and the Future of Borders.” Senior Fellow at CFR. Columnist @foreignpolicy.
Bellingham, WA
Joined January 2011
Canada nearly walked away from the original U.S.-Canada free trade talks because the Americans kept appointing useless underlings to negotiate with them. Remember that, and walk away the next time you are invited to a meeting like this one.
Senior White House official on "51st state" comments following meetings with Canadian premiers in DC today.
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@ColinDMello They should never have met with a “deputy chief of staff” and a “director of presidential personnel.” These are top elected Canadian leaders being summoned by Trump flunkies. Show some pride and self-respect please.
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@Alex_Panetta Their time might be better spent warning members of Congress how much their constituents will be hurt by Trump’s tariffs.
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RT @byHeatherLong: January inflation came in hot. You can blame egg prices and auto insurance and gas. But regular people feel it. This i…
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I teach students about the rise of globalization in the 19th C., its collapse in the mid-20th, its rebuilding after WWII and (perhaps) its impending collapse again. With wars, pandemics, tariffs, a migration backlash, parallels to the 1920s/30s are scary.
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RT @JimboStanford: Canada exports over 3 m tonnes/yr of raw alum to the U.S., over half their total imports. There is little smelting capac…
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@Alex_Panetta This is an excellent point. The U.S. can probably live without Canadian steel, but will have little choice but to buy Canadian aluminum and eat the tariff costs
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RT @StewGlobal: Hard to imagine Canadians ever forgiving Americans for sadistically amusing themselves with our nationhood like this. https…
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@TomWlost @toddntucker @AranchaGlezLaya @wendyscutler @MarosSefcovic @WeyandSabine @DRedonnet @berndlange @wto I think Steve Vaughn put his finger on the problem. A binding dispute settlement system leaves too little room for politics. In international organizations, there is no alternative to negotiated resolutions. And the WTO effectively discouraged negotiation in favor of adjudication
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🎁 “In 2024 the output of the U.S. steel industry was 1% lower than it had been in 2017, before the first round of Trump tariffs, and the aluminum industry produced almost 10% less.” More brilliant Trump trade strategy at work here.
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This really is 19th century stuff. The U.S. tried this and got dragged into global conflicts in the 20th. “Spheres of influence” is even a worse idea now than it was then.
Trump’s National Security Advisor Mike Waltz says there is no plan to invade Canada when asked if Trump is serious about annexing us. Waltz says many Canadians want to join the US and the US is asserting leadership from the Arctic to the Panama Canal.
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This is all shaping up — with awful costs to be sure — as a rather valuable lesson. Who knew that the federal government does so many things that really matter in every state!
Anyway, as I noted earlier, eager to hear how the senators from Iowa feel when it's the state university's children's hospital -- which gets plenty of NIH money -- cutting personnel and treatment slots You know, this one...
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RT @MarkMuro1: Always-sharp @AlanaSemuels has smart look at our new @BrookingsMetro analysis of where China's retaliatory tariffs could hit…
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@ChadBown Thanks very much Chad! Hope you enjoy it. Even though it’s a global book, it’s quite a personal story for me having built my life across the Canada-US border. It’s hard to watch what’s going on right now.
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Maybe @FoxNews can run this when the president is watching. Some history he and those close to him need to remember.
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