Achieving a pragmatic working relationship with China must be a foreign policy priority for Canada

There is much to gain from a stable and inclusive world that is not undone by competing muscle-flexing superpowers.

China's President Xi Jinping, pictured, was not invited to the G7 Leaders' Summit in Alberta, but Canada is making it quite clear that China has an important and positive role to play if our country is going to be economically less dependent on the United States, writes David Crane. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

June 16, 2025

TORONTO—While China's President Xi Jinping is not among the invitees at the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Alberta even though China is on everyone’s mind, at their recent Saskatoon summit, Canada’s own first ministers were quite clear in recognizing that China has an im...

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