"... how medium-sized enterprises can be helped to penetrate the Chinese market..." How pray tell do companies 'penetrate' (they sure can't enter normally) a completely Communist-controlled marketplace where at any moment a Party leader can destroy your business on a whim?

"...common interests and shared interests, such as the environment." What other shared interests do we have? Not free speech. Not uncensored social media postings. Not freedom from torture. Not freedom for Tibet. Not even the environment into which China spews one third of global CO2 and half of all pollution.

"We talked about the mismatch between hundreds of thousands of Chinese students studying in Canada..." Indeed, why are so many Chinese students in Canada when it cripples our education system and delays our own students' progress?