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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is finally getting serious about China.
Two years after Chinese authorities arbitrarily detained two Canadian citizens, and three years after Trudeau failed to entice the world’s second-largest economy to do a trade deal, he has accepted that he’s dealing with an authoritarian bully, not an aspirant to the league of democracies.
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Proof? Instead of using the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Beijing and Ottawa as an occasion to accentuate the positive, such as China’s status as the second-most-important buyer of Canadian crops and minerals, the federal government last fall called out President Xi Jinping’s use of “coercive diplomacy,” a hard break from the unofficial strategy of trying to be nice.