Bill, in the very first comment of "No Contact to Restart Trade" you point to the CN side having no confidence in the US' word but isn't the US side in fact simply worn out by many years of promises made and not kept? I don't disagree with your analysis, just its isolation from the related observation that the CN side of the equation promising further liberalization and equal treatment, clarity of regulations and equal access to market share, protection of IP, etc. has also contributed to the trust deficit in the relationship and thus part of the barrier to finding resolution.
IMF: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2018/06/people-in-economics-MIT-economist-david-donaldson-on-trade/people.htm
Bill, in the very first comment of "No Contact to Restart Trade" you point to the CN side having no confidence in the US' word but isn't the US side in fact simply worn out by many years of promises made and not kept? I don't disagree with your analysis, just its isolation from the related observation that the CN side of the equation promising further liberalization and equal treatment, clarity of regulations and equal access to market share, protection of IP, etc. has also contributed to the trust deficit in the relationship and thus part of the barrier to finding resolution.