2025-03-26
18 分钟THE Economist.
Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.
I'm Rosie Blore.
And I'm Jason Palmer.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
You might think that with Donald Trump's somewhat maverick style of diplomacy,
China would be on a charm offensive right now.
Our correspondent tells us why that doesn't quite seem to be happening.
And our culture editor reviews a new book that's part of a wave of dystopian fiction.
It considers the nexus between technology, personal freedom, criminality.
What's unsettling about it is how easily that fiction could be the but first, many Canadians,
citizens and businesses seem to be leaning into a deep but playful anti Donald Trump vibe.
The latest wheeze Moosehead, one of Canada's oldest breweries,
has unveiled the presidential pack crates of 1,461 beers,
one a day until the end of Mr. Trump's term.
His policies and his threats are now at the center of an election campaign that got underway this week after Justin Trudeau's resignation.
Mark Carney won the party leadership race and in just a week, he called a snap election.
I've just requested that the governor General dissolve Parliament and call an election for.
April 28 that pits his Liberal Party against the Conservatives in what is really mostly a two horse race.
But after the lost Liberal decade,