Beijing and Ottawa need to understand they won’t see eye to eye

Values differ. Direct confrontation with contradictory values is traumatic, and exacerbates conflict over critical issues.
The governments led by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau need to grasp that mutual understanding and mutual acceptance, while not mutually exclusive, are not the same thing, writes Ted Lipman.
“We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are,” writer Anaïs Nin said. The world witnessed unprecedented public rancour and tension as the Chinese and American delegations talked at each other rather than with each other at their recent

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