{"id":157535,"date":"2026-09-17T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157535"},"modified":"2026-09-17T00:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T00:00:07","slug":"trump-threatens-eu-over-hostile-proposal-to-make-canada-associate-memberunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157535","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens EU over \u2018hostile\u2019 proposal to make Canada associate memberUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to cut trade with the European Union after the bloc proposed to make Canada its first-ever associate member.<br \/>\nEU chief Ursula von der Leyen raised the prospect a day before Canadian leader Mark Carney was due to address the European Parliament.<br \/>\nHer pitch comes as both Canada and the European Union seek to pivot away from an aggressive US under Trump\u2019s leadership.<br \/>\n\u201cI think it\u2019s laughable,\u201d Trump told reporters when asked about the plan. \u201cIf they do&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3367784\/trump-threatens-eu-over-hostile-proposal-make-canada-associate-member?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to cut trade with the European Union after the bloc proposed to make Canada&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157535"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}