Stephen McDonald
speaker
54 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 5 May
Stephen McDonald’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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First and foremost, it's my crew's safety first and then my ship's safety.
So as a captain, I would not take this risk at the moment.
I mean, on China's version of Twitter, which is Weibo, the hashtag winning the world championship had, well, 18 million hits when I last looked.
It's the top trending topic on there.
That's how serious they're getting about snooker here.
And it's really a sort of rags to riches tale for him.
I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas.
When I hug my kids, that's your fuel.
That's your why.
Mark Carney said that his government's relationship with China was actually more predictable than that with the US and that the fruits of that predictability had panned out in this trip.
You know, years ago, it would have been unthinkable to hear a Canadian prime minister speaking like this.
Thus is the nature of the meltdown that Canada has had with the Trump administration.
Well, it's interesting.
Mark Carney was asked about this in his press conference today, and he said similar things to what you've heard from the likes of the Australian government and the British government, for that matter, that you can trade and you can have that sort of relationship and you can have these other areas where you completely disagree with one another.
He spoke about these security guardrails.
So, in other words, Canada and China, they can cooperate on renewable energy.
They can have trade.
And yet still...
There'd be other areas where they frankly don't trust one another when it comes to cyber security or what have you.
But then again, you know, these countries, I mean, do they also trust the Trump administration?
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