Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand on Monday hailed communist China as a valuable strategic partner, a dramatic turnaround from years of tense relations between Ottawa and Beijing necessitated by Canada’s deteriorating relationship with the United States.

Anand told the Canadian Press that the key to building a better relationship with China was “going beyond allowing individual irritants to strain the entire relationship and permitting Canada to advance its economic and security interests.”

China’s strategic threat to Canada is by no means theoretical. The Canadian Armed Forces have been conducting drills in the frozen northern reaches of…

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