BERLIN — Canada has a lot riding on Mary Ng’s connections.
The international trade minister spent most of fall a world away from Ottawa — air miles in the service of a critical mission for Canada: bolstering the country’s presence in the Indo-Pacific and resetting its rocky relationship with China.
It is no small task. In late November, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government unveiled a new “clear-eyed assessment” of Beijing. It announced Canada’s...