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Chinese President Hu Jintao meets with foreign reporters at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on August 1, 2008. File photo.

Photograph by: Mark Ralston , AFP/Getty Images




SHANGHAI — Chinese President Hu Jintao's official visit to Ottawa on Wednesday is seen here as the next step — but not necessarily the final one — in restoring normalcy to Sino-Canadian relations.
Hu's visit "will improve the political relations," but not completely heal the rift caused by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's outspoken criticism of China's human rights record and his official meeting with the Dalai Lama, Jin Canrong, a professor at Beijing's Renmin University's School of International Studies, said in an interview.
"Stephen Harper's visit (to China) last year made some progress, but it wasn't substantial. Both sides still hold their original views," he said.
Categorizing the current relations as still "relatively cold," Jin predicted: "resident Hu Jintao's visit will make the Chinese government attach more importance to Sino-Canada relations and exchanges between the two governments will warm up, striking a balance with the economic relations."
Hu, 67, a veteran world traveller, pointedly hasn't been to Canada since 2005. His absence might have been prolonged further but for the coincidence of the G20 meeting in Toronto later this week.
Hu's biographer, journalist and professor Willy Wo-Lap Lam, thinks the official visit should set things right between Canada and its second largest trading partner.
"I think the Hu leadership will 'normalize' ties with Canada, if there are no more 'embarrassments,' such as the Dalai Lama visiting Ottawa — and being highly received — again," he said in an interview by email.
Lam characterized Hu as "China's foreign policy president, because of the tremendous strides that China has made in enhancing its global clout."
He pointed out that while Hu stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the Chinese Communist Party leadership's tough stance on human rights and Tibet, his portfolios in the Politburo Bureau are the standing committees on diplomacy and military affairs.
"He lets (Premier) Wen Jiabao and other colleagues handle the tough domestic socio-economic woes such as the growing rich-poor gap, the 100,000 'mass incidents' every year," Lam said, referring to the street protests, riots and strikes that occur in China.
Hu's very much part of the consensus when the government takes iron-fisted stands on Tibet, the restive Uyghur region of Xinjiang, Taiwan and Hong Kong, Lam said, but "it is not Hu in particular pushing for extra tough policy on the Dalai Lama or Xinjiang."
Both Jin and Lam see Hu's primary interest in Canada at this point as energy — oil and gas — a sector where its recent investments in projects has been substantial. But Jin thinks the Chinese leader will also be taking a look at the strides Canada has made developing its "soft power."
As its economic clout soars so far ahead of its political weight in the world, China professes to be aiming for "peaceful development internationally," and says it wants to pursue "soft power" initiatives to strengthen its global presence.
It's already involved in peacekeeping in a small way, it has established a network of "Confucius Institutes" to spread its language and culture around the world and recently it has been setting up international news networks, so its particular slant on events can be heard.
Jin called Canada a potential "model" for China's quest for soft power, but maintained "with the coldness of political relations between China and Canada, its significance as a model is limited."
That could change, he said, once normalcy is restored.
"This visit will benefit the development in future," Jin suggested.
But for the protesters who are likely to dog his every step, Hu's visit to Canada might easily pass with little or no fanfare.
In his habitual dark suit and tie, spectacles and raven black dyed hair, he's not one to give interviews or mingle freely with crowds.
As Hu biographer Lam put it: "One of Hu's troubles is that he has negative charisma — duller than dull. So, his public appearances at home — but especially abroad — are nothing to write home about."
— with files from Jessie Zhou