​"It's the beginning of a special phase in our relationship with China, made possible and necessary by repositioning arrangements with the United States," says Paul Evans, Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia, in an interview with South, capturing the calculated pragmatism behind Prime Minister Mark Carney's recent visit to Beijing.

It is believed by an Australian scholar that as China continues to assert itself as an unexpected champion of open trade, its domestic economic trajectory offers concrete evidence of its capacity to shape the global economic order.