Let's free ourselves of the U.S. and forge closer ties with China

Open this photo in gallery: BRYAN GEE/THE GLOBE AND MAIL Julian Karaguesian is an economic and policy expert and former special adviser to the Department of Finance Canada and a visiting lecturer in the department of economics at McGill University. Robin Shaban is a partner at 2R Strategy and a fellow of the Public Policy Forum. Canada's "deal" with the U.S. to drop the digital services tax, which benefits U.S. tech giants such as Meta and Netflix at the expense of Canadian fiscal sovereignty, and the Trump administration's latest threat of a 35-per-cent tariff on Canadian goods perfectly encapsulate our…