For a clearer image of China’s true temperament, go back to June 2016 when China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi tore a strip off Canadian reporter Amanda Connolly as Canada’s then foreign minister Stephane Dion looked on silently like a frightened schoolboy. Wang berated Connolly for daring to ask about human rights, and carried on in a rather long tirade in translated Chinese as Dion remained timidly mute, and not coming to Connolly’s aid.