China's rise is having a direct impact on our prosperity, our health and well-being, and our security here in Canada. We need to start paying closer attention to China, says former ambassador David Mulroney. China has become our second largest economic partner, second only to the US. Canada exerts a magnetic pull on Chinese tourists and students. It's also a popular destination for Chinese home buyers in search of a new life or simply looking for a safe place to park money. An assertive China is challenging the balance of power in the Pacific, and it is more than willing to reach across borders, including Canada's, to steal technologies and to confront challenges to its ideology. Middle Kingdom is an intimate account of how foreign policy works, and how policies must be changed if Canada is to prosper.