{"id":183582,"date":"2025-10-07T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T16:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/183582\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T16:42:10","slug":"trump-says-us-and-canada-have-natural-conflict-on-trade-as-he-meets-carney-in-white-house-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/183582\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US and Canada have \u2018natural conflict\u2019 on trade as he meets Carney in White House &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What will Trump and Carney discuss?published at 16:49 BST<\/p>\n<p>16:49 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a1462f87-b5c0-43b2-8a08-2f7c7a8f1bff.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Bernd Debusmann Jr<br \/>Reporting from Washington DC<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Donald Trump sits in a brown leather chair at his desk in the Oval Office. In the background is a gold graphic of the United States, underneath a golden dome. In white capital letters is the caption: 'Golden dome for America'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/186dea23-b1ad-4d11-9032-ff7922174554.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"905\" height=\"509\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">US and White House officials have been largely quiet about today&#8217;s meeting, saying only that it will focus on bilateral issues, particularly trade and tariffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is, however, another issue pending between the two countries: the futuristic \u201cGolden Dome\u201d missile defence system. Formally unveiled by Trump in May, the system is aimed at countering \u201cnext-generation\u201d aerial threats to the US, including ballistic and cruise missiles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In his May announcement, Trump said he asked Canada to be a part of the system, something which then-Canadian defence minister Bill Blair had earlier this year said \u201cmakes sense\u201d and is in Canada\u2019s \u201cnational interest\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But so far, Canadian participation in the programme has not progressed beyond talks, and just last week Trump told a high-profile gathering of US military generals that Canada had contacted him to say \u201cthey want to be a part of it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cTo which I said, \u2018well, why don\u2019t you just join our country? You become the 51st state and you get it for free\u2019,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Experts say that Canadian participation in the programme is not just beneficial for bothcountries, but crucial for it to work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cIt would be really difficult to have an effective and credible Golden Dome without Canada being part of that,\u201d says Robert Peters, the former head of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and now an expert at the conservative-leaning Heritage Foundation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cA lot of potential missile launches &#8211; whether ballistic missiles or long-range cruise missiles &#8211; would be coming over the North Pole,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What will Trump and Carney discuss?published at 16:49 BST 16:49 BST Bernd Debusmann JrReporting from Washington DC Image&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-183582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}