The future of Canada's relationship with China /

Munk School of Global Affairs iv About the Authors Wendy Dobson is a professor at the University of Toronto’s Rot- man School of Management, and she is chair of the International Steering Committee of the Pacific Trade and Development confer- ence. [...] He served as director of the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Colum- bia and of the Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies in Toronto, and he was co-CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. [...] Next we will focus first on the re- markable economic complementarities of the two countries and on opportunities for greater collaboration and second on the changing security dynamics between the United States and China in the Asia-Pacific region, which will affect those economic prospects. [...] The second element includes attitudes about the nature, legitimacy and domestic policies of China’s political system, the role of the state in its economy, and societal values and practices very different than our own. [...] The challenge is to advance the prospects for political and social evolution in China while respecting the facts that most of its citizens view the Chinese governance system as legitimate, that the Communist Party is unlikely to collapse in the near future and that China’s long-term future will differ from our own.