Maybe they don't care because they have a tous azimuts foreign policy. They have folks in their embassy in Copenhagen who speak Danish. Like any great power, they do everything in detail so other people notice. They really didn't like the fact that we called them a “disruptive” actor. They don't like it when they are criticized. They have thin skins in that regard.
On the idea that they are somehow particularly terrorized.... We've seen the recent efforts of foreign ministers to have a dialogue again. They're there for the long term. Was it Talleyrand or Palmerston who said that France has no permanent friends, only permanent interests? That's the way China will continue to see it.
They don't like what we're saying now. They'll hope to be dealt better cards tomorrow, but we have to remember.... There's one thing that bothers me about all of those strategies that I've seen in the course of my career. We write them as if it is we who are changing things at that end. I can assure you that there is a Canada strategy there somewhere or a North American strategy. Sadly, their influence on us, I believe, over time will be much greater than our influence on them. We can and should be influencing the Indo-Pacific in any way we can, but they're going to influence us quite profoundly. In the case of China, what they call the “physics of power” tilts in their favour.