Posted on 27/09/06
Chinese puzzled by aloofness from Ottawa
BEIJING, OTTAWA -- A year ago, in a solemn signing ceremony, China and Canada announced a "strategic partnership" -- the highest political relationship that Beijing can bestow on a friendly country.But a few months later, something happened in Canada that never happens in China: a democratic change of government. Since then, the new government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has deliberately avoided the "strategic partnership" term. His China policy has fallen into limbo, with the two sides barely talking.
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