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On April 20, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a video address via social media on April 19, assessing the current state of Canada-US relations. He stated that many of Canadas previous "advantages" built on close ties with the United States have turned into "disadvantages" that must be corrected, and called for addressing current challenges through foreign trade diversification. In this video address, titled "Forward-Looking Guidance," Carney said, "The United States has fundamentally changed the way it trades," raising tariffs to levels not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Currently, US tariffs on the Canadian automotive, steel, and lumber industries have already had a negative impact. Carney said that Canada cannot control interference from the United States, nor can it pin its future on the United States suddenly ceasing these actions. "Hope is not a plan, and nostalgia is not a strategy." Carney pledged to regularly update the public on the progress of national trade diversification. He stated that in the past year, the Canadian government has signed 20 new trade agreements. Canada will attract global investment, harmonize inter-provincial trade regulations, and double its clean energy production capacity to reduce dependence on a single external market.Pakistani Prime Minister Sharif shared with Iranian President Pezeshiziyan recent exchanges with the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Türkiye.According to the AXIOS website: Despite being blacklisted, the U.S. National Security Agency is still using Anthropics Mythos model.April 20th - According to CBS News, U.S. officials revealed that the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford has returned to the Middle East after a brief stop in the eastern Mediterranean. The carrier, along with two destroyers—the USS Mahan and the USS Winston S. Churchill—has passed through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea. The Ford, which had been at sea since June and had just returned from a deployment in the Caribbean, had broken the record for the longest aircraft carrier deployment since the Vietnam War. It has now returned to the Middle East after a fire in its laundry unit forced it to return to port for repairs. The Ford joins the USS Abraham Lincoln, which is operating in the northern Arabian Sea. The USS George H.W. Bush is currently rounding the Cape of Good Hope and is expected to arrive in the region around the end of the month, at which time three aircraft carriers and their strike groups will be operating in the area.April 20 - According to information obtained from Iran on the 19th local time, the US military attacked an Iranian merchant ship to force it to return to port.
