If you’ve been putting any stock in what the Chinese police state’s diplomats and propagandists and their friends in the Canada-China trade lobby have been saying, it’s the opposite of what you would have expected. According to a just-published 7,991-word analysis of 32,502 articles in Canadian newspapers going back to the year 2000, China’s ruling Communist regime hasn’t been getting a bad rap in the Canadian news media after all.

It’s the other way around.