Concluding paragraph "The Beijing regime . .  is not a democracy or a rule-of-law society. To pretend it doesn’t matter is willful blindness" is a classic Western elitist conceit, post-Berlin Wall era. Canada, with its 150 years of not-so-perfect democracy and sometimes cringe-worthy justice system, has little or nothing to teach or compare with China, a country ruling 35x more people with a 5 millenia-long history of governance.  I wish G&M would desist from finger-wagging at other nations' way-of-doing-things . . Canada's real opportunity in a globally complex world is to pragmatically and open-mindedly embrace Asian and African opportunities, respecting other nations' political traditions and choices, and get the inside lane versus an even more arrogant US on economic relations with high-growth parts of the world.