CBC: Experts said the trade leads are likely avoiding personal insults in public because poisoning the well won’t help them achieve their objective: securing the best deal possible for their respective countries.
“They’re not going to launch silly insults against one another because it’s not good for actually productive conversations,” said Aaron Ettinger, a political science professor at Carleton University. “If they can’t stand each other, then it’s going to be hard to be in the same room with one another.”…