27 septembre 2017
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Fred Bild, « Chapter 2. Canada’s Staying Power: A Diplomat’s View », Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press, ID : 10670/1.fxeika
It is a particularly unrewarding task to try to find patterns in Canada’s relations with China. To maintain that they evolve through a sort of subconscious thread leading from discovery to mutual exploitation, through disappointment, before eventually attaining a level of “maturity,” results in nothing more than an academic exercise for ordering ephemeral conclusions. Besides, as Norman Bethune, Canada’s most famous adventurer into war-torn China, demonstrated, such searches for leitmotifs ar...