We have to do business with China

Open this photo in gallery: China is Canada's second-largest trading partner after the U.S. It is also the second-largest destination for B.C. exports.DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press BC Ferries recently announced it had selected a Chinese state-owned shipbuilding company to build four new boats for its fleet. A joyous reception the news did not receive. The provincial NDP government has come under attack for allowing its quasi-independent corporation to make a deal with what critics say is a brutal, murderous, dictatorial regime. Hard to argue with that. Also, a Chinese government that not long ago detained two innocent Canadians for nearly…