Canada should mend ties with China to build a new world (trade) order

Open this photo in gallery: Chinese and Canadian flags hang in the Hall of Honour in the Canadian parliament in Ottawa.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press Jeff Mahon is director of geopolitical and international business advisory at consulting firm StrategyCorp. He previously served as deputy director at Global Affairs Canada's China Division. Geopolitics is complicated. China's retaliatory tariffs against Canada, which took effect on Thursday, exacerbate the American-wrought trade crisis facing this country. Paradoxically, the Chinese tariffs also hint at a solution, a path for further engagement between Ottawa and Beijing, that could benefit not only Canada but the entire world. Of…