The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday edition that Canada's deal with the United States to drop the digital services tax, which benefits Meta, Netflix and Google at the expense of Canadian fiscal sovereignty, and the Trump administration's latest threat of 35-per-cent tariffs, perfectly encapsulate our current predicament: Washington no longer views Canada as an ally, but rather as a vassal worthy of contempt. Guest columnists Julian Karaguesian and Robin Shaban write that it is a stark reminder that trade diversification is no longer optional: It is an urgent national imperative. Our subordination to the U.S. is also holding us back from partnering with China, one of the world's most important economies. To achieve economic sovereignty, Canada must break free from the Washington narrative that China is an unreliable trading partner bent on world domination. Instead, Canada must forge its own relationship with China -- a relationship anchored in Canadian, not U.S., interests. As the largest economy in the world on a purchasing power parity basis, China is a core driver of future global economic growth. The greatest threat to Canadian sovereignty is not Chinese interference, it is our servility to the U.S.