CHINA-CANADA: CHINA DECLINES TO WARM TO CANADA'S NEW AMBASSADORIAL APPOINTMENT

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman  Shuang said (September 5) that  “Relations between China and Canada have encountered serious difficulties, and the responsibility lies entirely with the Canadian side.” He was responding to Canada's appointment of Dominic Barton, former Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company, as Canada's Ambassador to China. 

(Comment: Dominic Barton has lived in Shanghai, and his experience in China has given him rarefied access. Barton himself has rubbed shoulders with the country’s wealthiest and most powerful at the prestigious China Development Forum. He has been a member of the Advisory Board of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, whose honorary members include Wang Qishan, one of Chinese president Xi Jinping’s most trusted lieutenants. The advisory board holds annual meetings with top members of the Chinese political establishment including, in 2013, with Mr. Xi himself. Barton has met individually with leaders across the Chinese establishment — including Chen Jining, who was minister for environmental protection and is now mayor of Beijing, and Zhou Zhongshu, the president of China Minmetals Group, the biggest metal and minerals trader in the country.)
 






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