Last month, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand returned from a cordial meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing to declare that China, no longer a “disruptive global power,” was to be viewed in Canada as a “strategic partner” in a dangerous world. “There are going to always be challenges in any relationship,” she said, referring to China’s punishing tariffs on Canadian soybeans, yellow peas and certain fisheries products, and Canada’s efforts to stop China’s dumping of steel and flooding the Canadian market with its overproduction of electrical vehicles.