China: a fragile basket

Canada should seek stronger trading ties outside of the U.S., but getting closer to China comes with risks.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited Ottawa last year. The Trudeau government has moved slowly but steadily to build closer ties with China, despite discomfort among many in the Canadian public with some aspects of doing so. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

August 2, 2017

In 1996, I was living in Geneva and was contacted by a Chinese company selling space in an industrial park in the undeveloped Shenzhen economic zone north of Hong Kong. A colleague and I went to London to speak to business leaders. The pitch was pretty simple: any company interested in leasing spac...

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