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Canada Must Step Up to Help Stop Beijing’s Bullying of Taiwan
- 10 janvier 2018
China began 2018 with a breach of longstanding arrangements for aviation safety in the Taiwan Straits. On 4 January, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) unilaterally opened up northbound civil flights on flight path M503 and three connecting east–west …
EN SAVOIR PLUSMapping Out a North Korean Peace Process
- 11 décembre 2017
By John Gruetzner
There are ultimately four critical components to a peace process:
The first component is to submit and then finalize a draft of a document acceptable to the original signatories that converts the armistice agreement signed on 27 …
EN SAVOIR PLUSCanada Doubling Down on Diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula
- 11 décembre 2017
By John Gruetzner
Canada has announced that it is co-hosting a 16-nation summit with the United States early next year to explore options to engage North Korea. Prime Minister Trudeau is also likely to meet this month with US Secretary …
EN SAVOIR PLUSPourquoi une guerre sur la péninsule coréenne est inéluctable
- 6 novembre 2017
Le dernier épisode dans le feuilleton du dossier nucléaire nord-coréen a atteint son paroxysme qui met la communauté internationale devant la possibilité bien réelle de conflit militaire, avec une rhétorique enflammée des deux côtés. La focalisation des dernières semaines s’avère …
EN SAVOIR PLUSWhy Taiwan is an International Issue
- 20 septembre 2017
China works hard to convince the world that any decision about Taiwan is entirely a Chinese domestic affair. This has not, however, always been the official line of the Chinese Communist Party. In 1936, when the Republic of China (ROC) …
EN SAVOIR PLUSChina’s Republican Flag: A Conundrum for Canada–Taiwan Relations
- 30 juillet 2017
China’s Republican flag — the French-inspired tricolore representing nationalism, democracy, and peoples’ livelihood in Sun Yat-sen’s Three Principles of the People — was the national flag of all of China from 1928 until the founding of the People’s Republic of …
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In Memoriam: Professor Rezaul Karim Siddique, murdered 23 April 2016
- 20 avril 2017
By Ruth Bradley-St-Cyr
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
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Because I was not a …Canada–China Free Trade Part 2: Forging an Agreement
- 10 mars 2017
by John Gruetzner and Phil Calvert
A new free trade agreement with China, in whatever form it takes, should be advanced within the context of a broader strategy for Canada’s engagement with China, particularly (but not exclusively) the strategy of …
EN SAVOIR PLUSCanada–China Free Trade Part 1: Business before Politics
- 10 mars 2017
by John Gruetzner and Phil Calvert
Canada and China have begun exploratory discussions on a possible free trade agreement (FTA). Expanding Canada’s economic ties with China and moving the commercial relationship forward is a positive step. If it is properly …
EN SAVOIR PLUSNorth Korea: Testing China’s Patience
- 7 octobre 2015
Postcard from North Korea
Photo: John Pavelka, Creative Commons LicenseAnniversaries have always been important in Socialist countries.
For the people, it means a day off from the humdrum of workaday life with maybe an extra ration of meat or …
EN SAVOIR PLUSMaking Peace in a Divided World: New Roles for the United Nations?
- 1 octobre 2015
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By Richard Gowan
There is no more annoying phrase in discussions of international affairs than “If the United Nations did not exist, we would have to invent it!” It is certainly true that the world urgently …
EN SAVOIR PLUSOn the Fence: Canada’s Role in the Western Pacific Through An Election Lens
- 17 septembre 2015
Canada’s election, in the 70th anniversary year of the conclusion of World War II, should be a time to ponder Canada’s role in the Western Pacific. Most pressing is the challenge of how Canada should respond to China’s increasingly …
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