U.S. election preoccupies Canada’s top 50 foreign influencers as feds’ focus gets pulled from Asia strategy
Current and former senior government officials, past diplomats, and insiders weigh in on who has influence over Canadian foreign policy for The Hill Times‘ annual list.
Canada has been concerned with a lack of diplomatic access in China amid turbulent ties
Former Canadian diplomats aren’t hopeful that Ottawa will have improved diplomatic access in Beijing anytime soon.
Confronting Beijing’s meddling outweighs concerns over politician participation, says Uyghur advocate
Panellists from diaspora groups provided the Foreign Interference Commission with ‘courageous and heartbreaking’ context to examine the full scope of the problem, says a former CSIS official.
‘I think they can do it again’: Taiwanese rep cautions against persistent China interference
In a wide-ranging interview, Taiwanese envoy Harry Ho-jen Tseng talks foreign interference, Chinese retaliation since Taiwan’s presidential election, and trade with Canada.
Research safeguards a good first step, but more needed to avoid foreign influence traps, says Montreal professor
NDP MP Richard Cannings says the absence of private companies operating in Canada, like Huawei, still leaves room to circumvent federal funding restrictions.
Human Rights Coalition threatens withdrawal from foreign interference inquiry over rejected bid to limit standing for trio of politicians
Meanwhile, the only group solely representing Chinese Canadians says the commission is too important to quit.
China: has the moment arrived?
It has been obvious for years that the glory days of high-speed economic growth were over in China. While the future hasn’t exactly been canceled, it’s just a lot less attractive than it seemed 10 or 20 years ago.
Spavor’s lawsuit raises questions that should have already been examined
One would think that mere curiosity would have led journalists to delve deeper into the two Canadians who were caught up in the middle of what was dubbed ‘hostage diplomacy’ between the Canadian government and the People’s Republic of China.
Joly’s ‘pragmatic diplomacy’ an understanding of the realities of the world, say some observers
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly pitched a need to increasingly engage with countries that don’t share Canada’s values.
If Canada’s already at war, our military is far from battle ready
Given the sorry state of our military, let’s hope the chief of defence staff is wrong when he says we are already at war with China and Russia.
