Letter goes too far in telling Canada what to do with Huawei
When US senators Mark Warner and Marco Rubio in a letter in recent days told Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to keep China's tech and telecom giant Huawei out of its plans to build a new-generation mobile network, they were being presumptuous.
They need to be reminded that what they are doing is against the principles of free competition, which the United States repeatedly uses as an excuse to find fault with China, whose economy the US has long refused to recognize as a market one. That is one of the reasons why the Trump administration has imposed tariffs on imports from China.
US senators writing letters to the prime minister of a third country to dictate what that country should do or not do goes far beyond normal friendly relations.
