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Good morning. Beijing is advancing its technological ambitions by pulling foreign innovation inward and exporting its own systems of digital control abroad. That’s in focus today, along with a look at Canada’s race to find new (trade) friends.

In the news

Mining: Vancouver’s Teck Resources Ltd. and London’s Anglo American PLC have agreed to merge in a US$50-billion deal that will create world’s fifth-largest copper producer.

Telecoms: MDA Space Ltd. has lost a $1.8-billion satellite contract with U.S. telecommunications company EchoStar Corp., after a “sudden change” to EchoStar’s business strategy and a U.S. regulatory spat involving Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

Energy: The bidding war to buy the last of Canada’s pure-play oil sands producers has advanced, with Strathcona R

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