{"id":6804,"date":"2026-01-16T06:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6804"},"modified":"2026-01-16T06:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:34:31","slug":"carney-does-the-obvious-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6804","title":{"rendered":"Carney Does the Obvious Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>And <a href=\"\/blog\/new\/?p=6516\">this<\/a> is fundamentally the reason why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the correct decision in the overall context, as difficult as China&#8217;s dismal human rights record makes it. At least China can reasonably be expected to follow through on the deals it cuts, which is more than one can say for Trump&#8217;s USA. And it is not China that has been threatening to annex Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now the question is how the fascist regime south of the border takes the news of the obvious consequences of their behaviour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And this is fundamentally the reason why. It was the correct decision in the overall context, as difficult as China&#8217;s dismal human rights record makes it. At least China can reasonably be expected to follow through on the deals it cuts, which is more than one can say for Trump&#8217;s USA. And it is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6805,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804\/revisions\/6805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}