Shannon Proudfoot: It’s clear Carney now dealing with world ‘as it is’

Shannon Proudfoot/The Globe and Mail: What Jonathan Manthorpe, a former foreign correspondent and author of Claws of the Panda: Beijing’s Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada, saw Mr. Carney outline was a limited, transactional relationship.In this arrangement, he says, Canada and China sell things to each other, cash the cheques and keep moving.

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There are no good guys among the superpowers seeking to carve up the globe like so many pieces of pie. There are only the least-worst choices the smaller can make, hoping they don’t get swallowed whole.

This is the world as it is, no matter what we may wish it to be…