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China is a trade partner and export market that is simply too big to lose – including when it comes to Canadian copper The federal government’s decision last November to order Chinese companies to divest from three Canadian lithium junior exploration ventures may have sent a chill up the Canadian resource sector’s spine. “What’s next?” mining and energy companies might well ask. “Will Chinese investors in Canadian uranium, potash or copper miners also be told to pack their bags and take their billions with them?” Could Canadian producers of liquefied natural gas (LNG), metallurgical coal, iron ore, copper, pulp and...