Stewart Beck: Negotiating the Canada-China divide

Understandably, being caught in the middle of a changing global reality is a very unhappy place to be for Canada. For the last 400 years the West has emerged to dominate, both technologically and politically, through the evolution of rule of law and liberal democratic principles. Before that, China and India were economic powerhouses in their own rights with cultural traditions and political structures very different than those in the West.
India and China dropped the shackles of colonialism at